Exam 7: Psychosocial Hazards

Constructive feedback is a tangible form of social support.

What model would explain why Celeste is unaffected by a network outage,whereas Celine is screaming loudly at the office's network administrator?

Imagine you are currently the human resource director for a small to medium-sized organization.You are aware that perceived injustice in workplaces is a stressor and you would like to minimize the extent to which your employees are exposed to this type of work stress.Give some examples of how you might maximize employee-perceived distributive,procedural,and interactional fairness.What outcomes would signal that employees are beginning to feel that the workplace is unfair?

What type of moderator can aggravate an individual's response to a stressor?

Stressors may vary along which of the following dimensions?

A basic principle of preventive stress management is that the health of the individual and the health of the organization are independent.

Scenario 7-1: The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. -Which of the following is a social moderator that could buffer athletes from experiencing negative effects of stress due to recent losses to other teams?

Identify and describe four of the six major categories of workplace stressors identified in the NIOSH model that would be found in the job of a restaurant dishwasher.

Scenario 7-1: The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. -Refer to Scenario 7-1: If there are 20 Canadian players on a National Hockey League team (the rest are Americans and Europeans),according to Canadian statistics how many are likely to experience or be dealing with a mental health problem?

What is experienced by an employee who feels that his salary is too low given his amount of responsibility and the long hours he works?

It is important for employers to detect mental health illness in order to help employees receive an early medical referral and assessment.Describe the signs of organizational strain that could help employers to detect and assess workplace mental illness after a traumatic event,such as the premature death of the company's CEO.Explain why primary stress intervention would not work in that particular situation.

Scenario 7-1: The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. -Playing time is something that athletes on sports teams monitor very closely and being "benched"-not allowed to play their regular shifts-can be very humiliating.However,if the coach does not bench an underperformer,what type of injustice might the rest of the team experience?

Ruby Lee is always late to meetings,and her typical excuse is "I just tried to get one more thing done." Javier Suarez is always on time and drums his fingers on the table while he waits for Ruby.Ruby and Javier are both Type A personalities.

Scenario 7-1: The life of a highly paid professional athlete would seem to be all positive, but evidence shows that many elite athletes are exposed to a range of workplace stressors that are both similar to and different from those experienced by those in more "typical" occupations. Many athletes experience depression and other mental health issues both during and after their playing career. -If the team provides laptops with Skype for communicating with family and friends while the team is on the road,what type of stress intervention would this be and what type of work-family conflict could it help to reduce?

The psychosocial model of health used to discuss stress highlights which of the following factors?

What two categories of stressor have,or can have,a long duration?

According to the textbook,what is the main reason why organizations in the Mental Health Commission's case study project wanted to focus on improving mental health in the workplace?

Flexible hours that help workers who are looking after elderly parents take them to their doctor's appointments are a tangible form of social support.

Which of the following is NOT a category conceptualized by the NIOSH model?

What are the four categories of strain reactions?