Deck 10: Work

Question 1

One's career identity tends to relate to ______ and one's significance of work relates to ______.

A) personal meaning; self-esteem
B) self-efficacy; personal meaning
C) accomplishment; personal meaning
D) self-efficacy; self-esteem

Answer 1

B

Question 2

What is the term for one's internalized motivations that result in work accomplishments?

A) intrinsic motivation
B) career identification
C) significance of work
D) skill obsolescence

Answer 2

A

Question 3

An observation that supports the efforts of career work-life extension include ______.

A) older workers do not have career-viable attributes
B) job performance is not significantly impacted by aging-related cognitive changes
C) older workers show a decline in productivity
D) aging involves a decline in performance

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Research has suggested that ______.

A) knowing an older worker's subjective perception of his or her health is more important than knowing his or her age
B) knowing an older worker's chronological age is most useful to determine his or her work engagement
C) occupational well-being is dependent on how often employers conduct assessments of intrinsic motivation
D) aging-related fit factors are not important in determining how to support older workers

Question 5

Traditional retirement age is considered to be ______ years.

A) 60-65
B) 65-67
C) 66-68
D) 68-72

Question 6

What is the theory that suggests cognitive and physical competence is maintained by being physically and mentally active on the job?

A) activity
B) mentalistic
C) interactional
D) engagment

Question 7

Because of ______, older adults are having to shift their decision of when to retire.

A) job availability
B) changes in the stock market
C) shifts in family structure
D) longevity

Question 8

Which of the following is not necessarily a driving factor in why older adults may choose to continue working past retirement age?

A) eldercare responsibilities
B) need to support a materialistic lifestyle
C) support of younger generations
D) need for healthcare

Question 9

Someone who decides to delay retirement may do so because they ______.

A) planned well for retirement
B) have many roles to fulfill outside of work
C) have significant health conditions that impair their work abilities
D) are hobby poor

Question 10

______ is the study of older workers' issues.

A) Industrial gerontology
B) Organizational psychology
C) Geriatric psychology
D) Generational gerontology

Question 11

Tatiana works as a mid-level health provider. She is in middle adulthood and decides to switch to another organization of a similar type, hours, and pay. This is an example of a ______ transition.

A) neutral
B) vertical
C) horizontal
D) positive

Question 12

Older adults have ______ job satisfaction and ______ organizational commitment.

A) no change in; greater
B) less; greater
C) greater; less
D) less; less

Question 13

As people age, they ______.

A) show significant cognitive decline that results in job termination
B) have increased speed of performance
C) show improvement in activities of daily living
D) are more likely to experience work disability

Question 14

Adam has a history of calling into work on Fridays, because he really likes his long weekends. This is a representative of ______.

A) illegal use of time off
B) unavoidable absenteeism
C) avoidable absenteeism
D) career customization

Question 15

Donna is a female minority working in a fortune 500 company. During her time there she has experienced discrimination on several occasions. This highlights the difficulty that women might experience, termed ______.

A) multiple-role strain
B) role overload
C) double jeopardy
D) identity tensions

Question 16

Professional competence should be ______.

A) a developmental process
B) a reactive response
C) limited to the initial portion of a job
D) a response to loss of competency

Question 17

Situations in which older adults become unemployed and then have difficulty reentering the workforce is referred to as ______.

A) discouraged older worker syndrome
B) emotionally unemployable
C) discriminatory behavior
D) professional liability

Question 18

The Age Discrimination and Employment Act requires that companies ______.

A) allow age to be included as an employment criterion
B) no longer use mandatory retirement practices
C) remove all subtle forms of ageism in their practices
D) are fiscally responsible for having certain portion of older adults on staff

Question 19

The ADEA does allow for companies to establish a bonafide occupational qualification. This means ______.

A) companies cannot establish that age is related to job duties
B) all ageism must be removed from business practice
C) companies can provide rationale that age relates to the job duties
D) age cannot be used as employment criteria

Question 20

Ways to reduce or eliminate age discrimination in the workplace include all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A) education regarding capabilities of older adults
B) adults mentoring younger employees
C) separation of older and younger adults into divided workspaces
D) training programs to maintain older adults' competencies

Question 21

The responsibility of staying up-to-date on one's skill set lies with both the employer and the individual.

Question 22

Long-term succession planning allows adults to remain in the workplace after retirement age.

Question 23

Vertical career transition results in an increase in the level of responsibility of the employee.

Question 24

Feeling productive at work is unrelated to older adults' feelings of general life satisfaction.

Question 25

To keep older adults engaged in the workplace it is important to satisfy job preferences, organizational values, and understand their work needs.

Question 26

Younger and older workers may experience identity tensions over shared resources.

Question 27

People respond differently to job loss based on their background characteristics.

Question 28

As adults reenter the workforce, they typically have higher incomes.

Question 29

Even though there was ADEA legislation, many older workers still face age discrimination.

Question 30

As people age, they experience less job satisfaction.

Question 31

What are two benefits of retaining an aging workforce past traditional retirement age?

Question 32

What is the difference between a vertical and horizontal career transition?

Question 33

What is the sandwich generation?

Question 34

What are two things that displaced older jobseekers might experience?

Question 35

What are some common reactions to job loss?

Question 36

Compare and contrast white-collar and blue-collar workers and how this might impact the workplace and retirement.

Question 37

What factors might a researcher examine when trying to determine the person-environment fit of older working adults?

Question 38

What are some of the ageist stereotypes that exist? Describe the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and how it protects older adults.

Question 39

How might someone remain active in the workforce if he or she wanted to delay retirement? What sorts of things could be done to plan to work past traditional age?

Question 40

Explain some of the intergenerational tensions in the workplace, as described by North and Fiske (2015).