Exam 7: Stress and Well-Being at Work

A manager instructs an employee to ship an item with a minor defect to a customer.This is an example of:

Identify counterpart organizational stress prevention methods to the individual stress prevention methods of learned optimism, time management, leisure time activities, physical exercise, relaxation training, diet, opening up, and professional help.

The stress-handling strategy that is considered an alternative to transformational coping and may lead to short-term stress reduction at the cost of long-term healthy life adjustment is:

The fight-or-flight stress response is most closely associated with which approach to stress?

Problem-focused coping focuses on managing and controlling the stressor.

The person-environment fit approach to studying and understanding stress emphasizes:

Unfortunately, the natural stress response has been shown to be inherently bad or destructive.

The stress response can activate some bodily systems and cause others to operate at reduced capacity.

Primary stress prevention is designed to reduce and possibly eliminate the source of stress, or the stressor.

It is unfortunate that stress carries a negative connotation as though it were something to be avoided.

Match the following: -Homeostasis

Assume you are a supervisor of ten employees, one of whom is clearly a Type A personality.Which of the following approaches would you follow to effectively manage this employee?

Role conflict results from:

The adverse psychological, physical, behavioral, and organizational consequence that may occur as a result of stressful events is known as:

Three direct costs of organizational distress include:

Type B personalities display insecure behavior and may respond aggressively in conflict situations.

Transformational coping is actively changing an event into something less subjectively stressful by viewing it in a broader life perspective.

The Yerkes-Dodson law suggests that:

Match the following: -Positive Thinking

Match the following: -Self-Image