Exam 12: Work: Occupational and Lifestyle Issues in Young and Middle Adulthood

Dr. Rhodes is teaching his students about career selection. "The concept of self-efficacy, as first proposed by Bandura, has a large amount of influence over the careers that people ultimately select." Dr. Rhodes is clearly a proponent of the ________ theory of job choice.

Lucy has been working for the same company for 30 years and has applied for a promotion. She is only mildly disappointed, until she learns that her promotion was denied so that the company doesn't have to pay her extra pension when she retires in a year or two. Lucy has a right to be angry, as she has been a victim of ________.

A worker described as _____ would feel devalued.

________-mission fit refers to the alignment between an executive's personal intentions and their firm's mission.

Holland's personality-type theory of career choices proposed that there are ____ different types of personality types that are related to career selection.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics study in 2010, in about ____ percent of two-parent households, both parents work outside of the house.

The more simple form of the social cognitive career theory (SCCT) is to the more complex form, as _____ factors is to _____ factors.

Around ____ percent of mothers of children under the age of thirty work for pay.

Laurence is going to be a high school teacher when he graduates from college. If you wanted to reduce the reality shock that he will experience when he gets his first real job, what would you advise him to do?

Katie has just graduated from college and has taken an entry-level position with a business firm. She has experienced a high level of frustration in her first six months of work, as she has discovered that what she learned in college does not transfer very well to the demands and responsibilities of her job. This experience is called ________.

Discuss two different models of occupational choices-that of Holland and the SCCT-and discuss how these two models may actually work in a complementary fashion.

Tim is in a terrible bind. He has promised his son that he would go to his concert but is now expected to meet a job candidate at the airport at the same time. Tim is experiencing

African American women who opt for nontraditional occupations tend to plan for less formal education than necessary to achieve their goal.

Of women caring for parents or parents-in-law, more than 80% of them provide an average of 23 hours of care each week.

A(n) ________, or developmental coach, is part teacher, part sponsor, part model, and part counselor who facilitates on-the-job learning to help a newly-hired employee do the work required in his or her present role and to prepare for future roles.

In order for a person to be a victim of the technical definition of age discrimination, (s)he would have to be over the age of

Approximately ___ percent of victims of workplace sexual harassment cases that lead to legal charges are men.

Jason has recently learned that his mother is suffering from cancer. He is worried that he will have to take several months off from his job to help her with her treatments, and wants to know if he is going to be fired. "Don't worry," his wife tells him. "The ________ allows you take some time off without pay and gives you the right to return to your job later."

Why is it that obsessive passion leads to difficulties in one's relationships?

Sharlene is a woman who participates in the workforce in the United States of America. Statistically, she is MOST LIKELY to work in which of the following occupations?