What are the goals of the QWL movement?
What will be an ideal response?
to reduce work-related stress by basing job and work place design on analyses of the quality of employee experiences in an organization
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Reggie often finds that when he is ill, he is not able to cope effectively with the normal hassles of life. He finds himself becoming irritated by things that he would usually be able to ignore. Which of the following statements would explain this phenomenon?
A. When using resources to deal with one stressor, the ability to tolerate additional stressors may be compromised. B. Major life changes may impair the ability to cope effectively with daily hassles. C. During the exhaustion phase of the general adaptation syndrome, illness becomes likely. D. Allostatic load leads to psychological and biological vulnerability.
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which members of stereotyped groups possess attributes and perform behaviors consistent with the group stereotype results from
a. subtyping. b. illusory correlations. c. stereotype threat. d. in group favoritism.
Joseph Wolpe is sometimes referred to as the founder of behavior therapy, in part because he developed
a. the token economy. b. reinforcement therapy. c. systematic desensitization. d. modeling therapy.
Regarding high-status occupations,
a. women are more likely than men to hold positions with decision-making authority. b. ethnic minority women are even less likely to work in one compared to white women. c. women are underrepresented in jobs such as kindergarten teachers and those called "pink-collar ghetto" occupations. d. men and women typically earn the same salary in the same jobs.