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