General Careers
People choose work based on the fit between their individual traits and occupational interests
What is Holland personality type theory?
Loss of occupational idealism, lack of motivation, and feelings of being exploited are referred to as
What is burnout?
Occupations with less than 25% of women employed
What are nontraditional women's occupations?
A person feels free to perform the activity they want to
What is harmonious passion?
People build their careers based on own actions that result from personal characteristics and social context
What is career construction theory?
When workers feel that what their doing is meaningless and devalued
What is alienation?
It's hard to not think about an activity, disrupting other areas of life
What is obsessive passion?
Career choice is the result of the application of Bandura's social cognitive theory, especially __________
self-efficacy
Burnout is most common in these types of professions
What is helping professions?
Level to which women may rise in an organization but can't go beyond
What is glass ceiling?
Passive feeling that results from appraisal at work
What is job satisfaction?
When what's learned in class doesn't carry over to the real world
What is reality shock?
Describe work family conflict
What is being pulled in multiple directions by incompatible demands from work and family life?
Gives employees right to unpaid time off to care for dependents
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act?
Factors that increase job satisfaction
What are accumulation of experience, stage of career, and flexibility to meet family responsibilities?
___________ tend to change jobs more than other generations
What are millennials?
This group is most at risk for negative effects of job loss
Men have increased the amount of time they spend on housework, but only under these conditions
What are only on weekends, agreeable tasks like mowing and washing cars?
Effects of unemployment
What are lower mental health, life and martial satisfactions?