Unit 3 Work and Career Related Issues (Orientation)

What is Industrial organizational Psychology

What is the role of intelligence in making career choice

What is more important than general intelligence in many occupations?

Why one’s interest should be considered while planning one’s career?

What is Occupational Outlook Handbook?

What does Occupation Outlook Handbook include?

Where can we get more detailed information on particular occupations besides Occupational Outlook Handbook?

What essential information one should know about occupations while choosing a career?

What is underemployment?

What is Occupational Interest Inventories?

Three most widely used interest tests?

What does Occupational interest inventory focus on?

What are the important considerations to keep in mind while choosing a career?

Hexagonal model of career choice

What are personal orientations and work environments in Holland’s system

Describe Realistic personality orientation and their optimal work environment

Describe Investigative Personality Orientation and their optimal work environment.

Describe Artistic Personality Orientation and their optimal work environment.

Describe Social Personality Orientation and their optimal work environment.

Describe Enterprising Personality Orientation and their optimal work environment

Describe Conventional Personality Orientation and their optimal work environment

Name the test developed by Holland to measure six basic personal orientations

Super’s Developmental Model

5 Major stages of Super’s Developmental Model

Growth Stage

Exploration Stage

Establishment Stage

Maintenance Stage

Decline Stage.

Women have different patterns of career development than men

M-curve in women’s career development.

What do we mean by the word ‘Work’/ definition of Work

Why should we be aware of work trends and there are how many important trends?

Mention the six important work related trends:

What do we mean by Labor Force?

Major challenge today

Who are Workaholics?

Enthusiastic workaholics

Non enthusiast workaholics

Important facts for dual earner couple

Define Spill over effect

Work-Family conflict

Define Leisure

What is ‘Technostress’?

What are the factors contributing to stress in American workers (Gwendolyn Keita and Joseph
Hurrell- 1994)?

What are the 3 levels at which occupational stress is dealt with?

Focus of job stress intervention at individual level

Focus of job stress intervention at organizational level

What does the Family and Medical Leave Act state?

Define ‘ Sexual Harassment’

What are the two ways of sexual harassment?

Which model helps predicting occurrence of sexual harassment?

Sexual harassment is most likely to occur when individual proclivity is ____ and
organizational norms are ___.

Causes of unemployment

Define ‘displaced workers’.

Effects of unemployment

Losing job at middle age is most stressful because…

How to make an effective resume?

What is executive recruiters ?
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Techniques to get selected for interview?