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Question 1

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Work, I/O or Occupational Psychology is a branch of:
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  • Cognitive Psy
  • Business Psy
  • Applied Psy
  • Developmental Psy

Question 2

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Which of the following is NOT a core value in Work, I/O, occupational psy?
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  • Science
  • Ethics
  • Profit
  • Pragmatism

Question 3

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The measurement and management of human behaviour in basic elementary chunks is a hallmark of
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  • Psychology
  • Taylorism
  • Post-Modernism
  • Pragmaticism

Question 4

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Elton Mayo is most famous for his connection with
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  • Cybernetics
  • Hawthorne studies
  • Scientific management
  • Time and motions studies

Question 5

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Which of the following is not an organisation assosciated with work, I/o and occup psychology?
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  • BPS - DOP
  • EAWOP
  • SIOP
  • GDP

Question 6

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The roots of modern work, I/O, occupational psychology can be traced back to ?
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  • WW1
  • WW2
  • Medieval Times
  • The 1960's

Question 7

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Work, I/O, occup psychology is principally concerned with ?
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  • Individuals
  • Teams
  • Organisations
  • All of the above

Question 8

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Some useful principles of ethical conduct for work, I/O occupational psychologists include the following:
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  • Recognising levels of analysis, integrity and competence
  • Respect, responsibility and leadership
  • Respect, competence, responsibility and integrity
  • Honesty, integrity, perspective and leadership

Question 9

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The war of talent is a phrase that expresses:
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  • How an organisations sucess is based on its ability to attract, develop and reatain talented employees
  • Business is similar to war
  • An organisations ability to succeed is based on adopting management techniques used in the armed forces
  • Importance of talent pool

Question 10

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Compencty Frameworks should
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  • include competencies with clear behavioural indicators
  • Include at least 8 competencies
  • A and B
  • None

Question 11

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What is considered to be the foundation of selection
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  • Job rotation
  • Job evaluation
  • Job analysis
  • Job satisfaction

Question 12

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What does KSAO stand for when analysing job roles?
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  • Knowledge, scores, ability and other interests
  • Knowledge, skills, ability and other characteristics
  • Knowledge, scores, attidues and other characteristics
  • Knowledge, scales, ability and other skills

Question 13

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Selection processes should take into account methods that are:
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  • Valid
  • Reliable
  • Fair
  • All of the above

Question 14

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BARS are _________ rating scales that assess behaviour
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  • Ability
  • Actual
  • Anchored
  • Accurate

Question 15

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Job interviews are most effective in predicting job performance when they are:
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  • Long
  • Semi-Structured
  • Structured
  • Intense

Question 16

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Organisations are most likely to use these selection methods:
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  • Biodata, work sample tests and references
  • Application forms and biodata
  • Graphology and polygraph tests
  • References, psychometrics, interviews

Question 17

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An example of output performance criteria is:
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  • Sales volume
  • creativity
  • Initiative
  • Absenteeism

Question 18

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Research on performance ratings indicates that:
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  • peer ratings are more reliable than supervisor ratings
  • supervisor ratings are more reliable than peer ratings
  • peer and supervisor ratings are equally reliable
  • self-ratings are more reliable than peer or supervisor ratings

Question 19

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Multi-source performance ratings can also be referred to as:
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  • 360 feedback
  • 180 feedback
  • all round feedback
  • A and B

Question 20

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Which of the following is not a way of increasing the chances of success when introducing multi-source performance ratings?
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  • give the appraisee a comprehensive pack containing all of the feedback and ratings from each rater to review on their own and plan their development
  • evaluate the system
  • give the apraisee a one to one feedback session
  • use multi source ratings primarily for development

Question 21

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Albert Bandura explanation of how we learn by others is called:
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  • Social learning theory
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Behaviour modelling training
  • All of the above

Question 22

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Who is known for the instructional systems design model?
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  • Schmidt and Hunter
  • Smith and Carter
  • Goldstein and Ford
  • Bakker and Schaurfeli

Question 23

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Which is not a phase in the training cycle?
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  • Training needs analysis
  • Training evaluation
  • Training design
  • Training development

Question 24

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What does HTA stand for?
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  • Hierarchal Task Analysis
  • Higher Training Attitude
  • Hitting Target Aim
  • Hierarchal Training Analysis

Question 25

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Hackman and Oldham core job dimensions include:
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  • Task variety, Skill identity and autonomy
  • Task identity, Skill variety and skill significance
  • Autonomy, Skill identity, and task variety
  • Feedback, Skill variety and task significance

Question 26

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Which of the following is NOT true of intrinsic rewards?
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  • They are a way of undestanidng why some activities are inherently rewarding
  • Their effect can be undermined by extrinsic rewards
  • They were first decribed and understood in behaviourist
  • They are important for understanding why people will freely choose to do tasks

Question 27

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Which of the following theorists developed a theory specifically for work motivation?
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  • Herzberg
  • Maslow
  • McCellend
  • Rorschach

Question 28

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Which of these personality traits is assosciated with higher performance motivation?
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  • Agreeableness
  • Contientousness
  • Extraversion
  • Psyhcotism

Question 29

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Self efficiancy is an important part of goal setting theory because:
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  • it determines what kind of deefback we need
  • it affects how committed we are to the goasls
  • it can counteract goal complexity
  • it improves our level of satisfaction with the goals

Question 30

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Which of the following is NOT one of McCellands needs?
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  • Need for Achievement
  • Need for Esteem
  • Need for Affiliation
  • Need for Power

Question 31

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Which of the following is NOT a component of Vrooms expectancy theory?
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  • Valence
  • Instrumentality
  • Expectancy
  • Efificacy

Question 32

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Locke and Latham are best known or which approach to motivation?
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  • Equity Theory
  • Self determination Theory
  • Goal Setting Theory
  • Need Theory

Question 33

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The mechanist view of communication in organisations
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  • Sees people as passive recipients of the message
  • focuses on the different ways a message can be intepreted
  • Recognises that we suffer from information overload
  • Explores the impact of IT on communication

Question 34

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Proxemics is the study of
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  • Body Language
  • The role of interpersonal space in communication
  • Personal relationship at work
  • The impact of personal apperrance on communication

Question 35

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The kinesic communication channel is often used to
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  • express emotion
  • reduce anxiety
  • enhance brand awareness
  • pass on a complex message

Question 36

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four main structural of dimensions of communication in organisations
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  • Clarity
  • Complexity
  • Centralisation
  • Configuration

Question 37

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Jargon is often used
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  • As a shorthand for common work elements
  • To speed up communication with outsiders
  • To avoid having to use email
  • To explain a complex issue in plain language

Question 38

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Which of the folloing examples of organisational communication are assosociated with a regulative functional network?
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  • Bulletin Boards
  • Policy Statements
  • Verbal Praise
  • Suggestion Boxes

Question 39

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Paralanguage is
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  • The words we use when we speak
  • The sounds, noise and way we say words not the words themselves
  • The meaning of the words
  • The sumbolic use of the words

Question 40

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Informal communication networks
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  • Tend to have longer communication chains than formal networks
  • Often contain much of the important communication at work
  • Usually have more women than ment in them
  • Tend to take the form of a wheel

Question 41

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Real teams can be distinguised from peuedo teams by
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  • The interdependence of the team members
  • Team members having independent objectives
  • Members not being sure whether they are in the team or not
  • The frequence of meetings

Question 42

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For conceptual tasks, teams perform best when interdependence is
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  • high
  • low
  • medium
  • a and b

Question 43

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Self leadership is beneficial for
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  • Manual tasks only
  • All team tasks
  • conceptual tasks only
  • behavioural tasks only

Question 44

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The google Re. Work project identified which characteristic as the most important in team effectiveness?
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  • Team Cohesion
  • Dependability
  • Psychological Safety
  • Task meaning

Question 45

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Which of the following has NOT been found to be an important climate element creatice teams?
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  • risk-taking
  • open comunication
  • strong leadership
  • Acceptance of ambiguity

Question 46

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According to Tuckman's model, what process often follows the initial forming of a team?
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  • Norming
  • Storming
  • Performing
  • Adjourning

Question 47

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West and Unsworth propose which two dimensions are important to understanding effective teams?
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  • Task reflecivity and Social reflexivity
  • Task reflexivity and Team viability
  • Performance Reflexivity and Social Reflexivity
  • Social Reflexivity and Team Viaibility

Question 48

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In West's model of team effectiveness 'organisational climate' is considered as what sort of factor?
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  • Input Factor
  • Process Factor
  • Outcome Factor
  • Irrelevant Factor

Question 49

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According to Kotter (2001), good leadership is about coping with _____ while good management is about coping with ________
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  • Complexity, implentation
  • Strategy, implementation
  • Change, Complexity
  • Complexity, Change

Question 50

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The Ohio and Michigan studies identified two dimensions of leader behaviour, which together can broadly be labelled
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  • Task focus and time focus
  • initiating stucture and itiating change
  • Employee orientation and consideration
  • People orientation and task orientation

Question 51

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In Fielders contingency theory of leadership, there are three variables in the leaders situation that need to be assessed. which of the following is NOT one of these variables
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  • Leader-member relations
  • Least preferered coworker
  • Task structure
  • Position power

Question 52

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Passive Management by exception is
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  • One of the leader styles identified by Blake and Mouton
  • A form of transactional leadership
  • Also known as contingent reward leadership
  • A form of trandormational leadersip

Question 53

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The GLOBE project identified some leader attributes that were endorsed positively in most cultures these were
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  • Participative and team oriented
  • Autonomous and humane oriented
  • Team oriented and charismatic
  • Charismatic and participative

Question 54

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According to the SIT perspective on leadership, which of the following is a key dimension for effective leadership?
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  • Leadership prototypicality
  • Transformational leadership
  • Management by exception
  • Team orientation

Question 55

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According to Walumbwa, the four key components of authentic leadership include:
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  • Self awareness and Balanced processing
  • Idealised influence and ispirational motivation
  • Internalised Moral perspective and idealised influence
  • Self awareness and individualsised consideration

Question 56

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According to implicit Leadership Theory, which of the folloing are sources of prejudice
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  • Leadership is associated as more strereotypical of men than women
  • Men feel that women are less interested in leadership positions than men
  • Women displaying leadership behaviours are evaluated less favourably then men
  • A + C

Question 57

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Gersicks punctuated equilibrium model of chance considers three main compoments which of there is NOT one of them?
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  • Deep Structure
  • Status Quo
  • Reloutionary periods
  • Equilibrium periods

Question 58

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The first two steps in kotters change model are:
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  • Never let up, incoporate change into the culture
  • Establish a sense of urgency, develop a change vision
  • Establish a sense of urgency, create a guiding coalition
  • Develop a change vision, generate short-term wins

Question 59

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Action research was developed by Lewin as
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  • A way for ther practioner to implement change
  • A wayfor researchers to identidy clear step-change plans
  • An approach to understanding how groups interact
  • A compromise between the scientific method and intuition

Question 60

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four factors in Oreg resistance to change measure?
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  • Routine seeking
  • Dsitrust
  • Emotional Reaction
  • Cognitive Rigidity

Question 61

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Psychosocial transition theory is a way of understanding
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  • The impact of change on social groups
  • Our psychological reactions to change
  • How organisational change affects employees' home lives
  • How change causes mental illness

Question 62

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In terms of organisational culture, what name does Schien give to the visible organisational structures and processess as manifestations of culture
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  • Features
  • Artefacts
  • Elements
  • Assumptions

Question 63

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Which of the following is NOT a dimension in Hostedes model of national culture?
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  • Individualism
  • Masculinity
  • Future thinking
  • Power distance

Question 64

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The GLOBE study of cultural influences at work focused on whcih elements of organisations?
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  • Motivation
  • Selection
  • Climate
  • Leadership

Question 65

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Changing expectations about careers means that the job for _______ no longer applies to many organisations
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  • Development
  • Learning
  • Life
  • Career

Question 66

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The _____ is an unwritten set of expectations about how the employee will perform at work, and what they expect from the organisation in return
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  • Psychological contract
  • Cognitive contract
  • Employee contract
  • Proxy contract

Question 67

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How many stages of development are there in Erikkson's stags of development model?
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  • 10
  • 8
  • 7
  • 5

Question 68

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Career ____ is the process of guiding people about their career choices
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  • interviweing
  • assessment
  • consultancy
  • counselling

Question 69

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What is the fourth stage in Super's model?
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  • Exploration
  • Growth
  • Maintenance
  • Decline

Question 70

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What type of career intervention would allow people to better understand their individual differences and the kind of work that would appeal to their traits, skills, abilities and interests?
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  • Career-counselling
  • Prep for tranisiton
  • Mentoring
  • Developmental programmes

Question 71

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Which of the activities below could be encouraged to facilitate career progression?
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  • Extra pay
  • Joining a recruitment agency
  • Networking
  • Turning up early for work

Question 72

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Nicholsons model is called the ___ cycle
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  • transition
  • socialisation
  • consultancy
  • change

Question 73

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in the cognitive appraisal of stress, Folman and Lazarus distinguish between primary and secondary appraisal. Secondary appraisal refers to:
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  • An appraisal of an event as potentiallly harmful or beneficial
  • An evaluation of our coping options
  • Listing pros and cons of a situation
  • A decision about whther or not an enxounter is relevant to our well-being

Question 74

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The cost of work-related stress in organisations can be estiamted in terms of?
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  • Absenteeism
  • Lost productivirty
  • Compensation claims
  • All of them

Question 75

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Which of the following is an example of personal resources than can eb drawn on in the job demands resoirce model?
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  • Self efficacy
  • Rewards
  • Social support
  • Workload

Question 76

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Burnout is _______ correlated with engagement and _____ correlated with workaholism
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  • Negatively, Positively
  • Neg, Neg,
  • Pos, Pos,
  • Positively, Negatively

Question 77

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Which of the following could be an organisational symptom of stress?
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  • Reduced absenteeism
  • High performance
  • Long hours culture
  • Good staff morale

Question 78

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According to Palmer et al (2004) there are six potential hazards in the workplace, which of these is NOT one of them?
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  • control
  • support
  • responsibility
  • change

Question 79

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The three stages in Seyle's general adaptaion syndrome model of stress are:
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  • Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
  • Alarm, reaction, exhaustion
  • Alarm, resistance, emotion
  • Alarm, response, exhaustion

Question 80

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Secondary interventions to manage stress in the workplace focus on :
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  • trying to remove the source of stress
  • providing counselling to employees
  • Encouraging a participative management style
  • Helping employees to modify their reaction to stressors

Question 81

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In positive psychology, Eudaimonia is the name given to one of the paths to authentic happiness. It involves:
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  • seeking to use and develop the best in ourselves
  • seeking pleasure in our activities
  • seeking to contribute to the wider community
  • seeking to work towards a higher purpose

Question 82

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students who were categorised as flourishing in Howell's 2009 research were found to have:
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  • higher levels of perseverance
  • slightly lower grades
  • lower levels of helplessness
  • lower absence rates

Question 83

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According to Maslow, self-actualisation is:
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  • A good way of motiating people at work
  • Engaged in by the majority of students and young adults
  • A long, difficult process
  • A simple model of motivation

Question 84

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Humanistic Psychology has been criticised for:
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  • being too optimistic about people
  • not being scientifically rigorous
  • being overly simplistic
  • not tkaing account of the 'dark side' of human nature

Question 85

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in the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, experiencing emotions such as joy or pride can help us develop personal resources such as:
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  • social relationships
  • a higher salary
  • instinctive response to threats
  • none of the above

Question 86

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which of these is NOT a feature of strengths-based development?
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  • identifying your strengths
  • finding ways to use strenghts in your work
  • developing your weaknesses
  • improving relationships with others

Question 87

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Of all the strengths defined in the Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV) guiide, which virtue is most strongly associated with work satisfaction in jobs directly involving other peple?
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  • Justice
  • Humour
  • Forgiveness
  • Humanity

Question 88

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The best way to increase the likelihood of flow experiences at work is to:
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  • give employees more holidays
  • give employees more autonomy
  • ensure that employyes have clear goals
  • Introduce flexitime

Question 89

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Ethical psychological research should be based around these principles:
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  • Informed consent, confidentiality, withdrawal and debriefing
  • Informed consent, confidentiality, clarity and debriefing
  • Informed consent, confidentiality, clarity and rapport
  • Informed consent, consent, rapport, support services

Question 90

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Which one of the following are examples of the sources of information that evidence based practitioners should use?
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  • The perspectives of those who may be affected by an intervention
  • The practitioners own experience
  • both a and b
  • neither

Question 91

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A challenge for many occupational psychologists in promoting evidence-based practice is:
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  • Research results are so contradictory
  • They are often acting in a consultative capacity rather than as final decision makers
  • It is usually better to follow 'gut instinct' than use evidence to make decisions
  • Managers think they know best

Question 92

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How many questions beginning with A should you ask when considering evidence based practice?
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  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 17

Question 93

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What evidence should you consider for evidence based practice?
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  • scientific research
  • professional judgement
  • organisational data
  • all of the above

Question 94

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Which one is NOT what Frese considers to be a factor of the changing nature of work?
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  • Faster rate of innovation
  • Enhanced bureaucracy
  • Global competition
  • Increased teamwork

Question 95

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Who used the term soulful when talking about reinventing organisations?
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  • Laloux
  • Lashey
  • Latham
  • Lewis
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