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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A pension plans.
B on-site child care.
C paid family leave for six months.
D retirement counseling.
E unpaid family leave for up to twelve weeks.
Question #2
A occupational guidance.
B early job socialization.
C occupational steering.
D lateral mobility.
E pragmatic job counseling.
Question #3
A the tasks are too difficult.
B new technologies have created too many stressful intellectual demands.
C it requires more manual dexterity than many workers possess.
D it is repetitive.
E it is poorly paid.
Question #4
A boredom
B revolution
C alienation
D powerlessness
E self-estrangement
Question #5
A the difference between increasing family expenses across the life cycle and relatively stable earnings.
B the difference between the average earnings of husbands and wives.
C the difference between the average earnings of adult children and their parents.
D the difference between the income of workers and the needs of their aged parents.
E the difference between the average earnings of new workers and experienced workers.
Question #6
A requiring workers to eat only in the company cafeteria
B requiring workers to keep track of their expenses while traveling on company business
C requiring that all promotion possibilities be posted for three weeks before the job is filled
D forbidding workers to talk with their co-workers
E installing a hot-line for anonymous complaints about safety concerns
Question #7
A buying groceries.
B taking children to sports lessons.
C washing laundry.
D writing freelance articles for publication.
E preparing meals.
Question #8
A sit-down strikes.
B general strikes.
C gridlock strikes.
D mass strikes.
E secondary boycotts.
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 they were considered to be easily replaceable.
C family members employed by the same company would be fired.
D strikes were illegal.
E their wage was too cheap to stop working.
Question #11
A It was basically a self-improvement and social reform society.
B The Knights officially opposed strikes.
C It was a general union.
D Like many early unions, it excluded working women.
E The Knights favored social and political reform.
Question #12
A alcohol, drug abuse, and family problems have no connection with workers’ job experiences.
B technology mediates the effects of alienation and self-actualization upon workers’ families.
C only alienation has an effect outside the workplace.
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 on-site child care, relocation counseling, and flextime
C retirement counseling, defined contribution plans, and health care
D job sharing, paid leave, and elder care
E elder care, a defined benefit plan, and health care
Question #14
A Charles Tilly
B Max Weber
C Karl Marx
D Barbara Reskin
E William Julius Wilson
Question #15
A The nature of the job tasks is unrelated to job satisfaction.
B Opportunities for promotion appear to be unrelated to job satisfaction.
C Workers prefer small companies to large corporations.
D Workers in very small companies report low job satisfaction due to limited job complexity.
E Job satisfaction increases as division of labor increases.
Question #16
A as an illegal labor practice.
B as an ineffective organizing tool.
C to convince workers that their problems are shared by others.
D to persuade political parties to support unions.
E to persuade employers to recognize unions.
Question #17
A job rotation, close supervision, and flexibility
B job complexity and security
C job security, job rotation, and training
D job autonomy, complexity, and diversity
E job flexibility and diversity
Question #18
A part-time workers.
B the children of immigrants.
C divorced women.
D the underclass.
E unskilled workers.
Question #19
A anger, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
B dissatisfaction, powerlessness, anger, self-estrangement, isolation
C powerlessness, self-estrangement, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
D dissatisfaction, meaninglessness, powerlessness, isolation, anger, normlessness, self-estrangement
E dissatisfaction, powerlessness, meaninglessness, isolation, normlessness
Question #20
A positive relations with co-workers
B fringe benefits
C craft and machine tending.
D job security
E pay
Question #21
A learning to count to one hundred.
B learning to raise one’s hand before speaking.
C learning the letters of the alphabet.
D learning how to use a pencil properly.
E learning to distinguish different colors.
Question #22
A self-actualization
B job angst
C role strain
D bullying
E alienation