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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A unpaid family leave for up to twelve weeks.
B paid family leave for six months.
C pension plans.
D retirement counseling.
E on-site child care.
Question #2
A early job socialization.
B occupational steering.
C lateral mobility.
D occupational guidance.
E pragmatic job counseling.
Question #3
A the tasks are too difficult.
B it requires more manual dexterity than many workers possess.
C it is repetitive.
D it is poorly paid.
E new technologies have created too many stressful intellectual demands.
Question #4
A self-estrangement
B powerlessness
C boredom
D revolution
E alienation
Question #5
A the difference between increasing family expenses across the life cycle and relatively stable earnings.
B the difference between the income of workers and the needs of their aged parents.
C the difference between the average earnings of adult children and their parents.
D the difference between the average earnings of husbands and wives.
E the difference between the average earnings of new workers and experienced workers.
Question #6
A requiring that all promotion possibilities be posted for three weeks before the job is filled
B installing a hot-line for anonymous complaints about safety concerns
C requiring workers to keep track of their expenses while traveling on company business
D requiring workers to eat only in the company cafeteria
E forbidding workers to talk with their co-workers
Question #7
A preparing meals.
B writing freelance articles for publication.
C taking children to sports lessons.
D buying groceries.
E washing laundry.
Question #8
A mass strikes.
B general strikes.
C sit-down strikes.
D secondary boycotts.
E gridlock strikes.
Question #9
A the Executive Order of 1962.
B the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
C Brown v. Board of Education.
D the bill of rights.
E Title VII of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Question #10
A they were not unionized yet.
B their wage was too cheap to stop working.
C strikes were illegal.
D family members employed by the same company would be fired.
E they were considered to be easily replaceable.
Question #11
A Like many early unions, it excluded working women.
B It was basically a self-improvement and social reform society.
C It was a general union.
D The Knights favored social and political reform.
E The Knights officially opposed strikes.
Question #12
A alcohol, drug abuse, and family problems have no connection with workers’ job experiences.
B only alienation has an effect outside the workplace.
C technology mediates the effects of alienation and self-actualization upon workers’ families.
D both self-actualization and alienation may have an effect outside the workplace.
E only self-actualization has an effect outside the workplace.
Question #13
A maternal leave, health care, and education benefits
B job sharing, paid leave, and elder care
C elder care, a defined benefit plan, and health care
D retirement counseling, defined contribution plans, and health care
E on-site child care, relocation counseling, and flextime
Question #14
A Barbara Reskin
B William Julius Wilson
C Karl Marx
D Charles Tilly
E Max Weber
Question #15
A Opportunities for promotion appear to be unrelated to job satisfaction.
B Job satisfaction increases as division of labor increases.
C Workers prefer small companies to large corporations.
D Workers in very small companies report low job satisfaction due to limited job complexity.
E The nature of the job tasks is unrelated to job satisfaction.
Question #16
A to persuade political parties to support unions.
B as an ineffective organizing tool.
C to persuade employers to recognize unions.
D as an illegal labor practice.
E to convince workers that their problems are shared by others.
Question #17
A job flexibility and diversity
B job security, job rotation, and training
C job rotation, close supervision, and flexibility
D job autonomy, complexity, and diversity
E job complexity and security
Question #18
A part-time workers.
B unskilled workers.
C divorced women.
D the underclass.
E the children of immigrants.
Question #19
A powerlessness, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
B dissatisfaction, powerlessness, anger, self-estrangement, isolation
C dissatisfaction, powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
D anger, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
E dissatisfaction, meaninglessness, powerlessness, isolation, anger, normlessness, self-estrangement
Question #20
A craft and machine tending.
B job security
C positive relations with co-workers
D pay
E fringe benefits
Question #21
A learning to count to one hundred.
B learning the letters of the alphabet.
C learning to distinguish different colors.
D learning how to use a pencil properly.
E learning to raise one’s hand before speaking.
Question #22
A job angst
B alienation
C bullying
D role strain
E self-actualization