Deck 17: Workforce Diversity and Wellness

Question 1

Which OD intervention is aimed at helping dual-career households?

A) performance feedback
B) coaching
C) work-life balance
D) realistic job previews

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Role clarification methods follow a strategy that includes

A) rewriting the job description
B) giving the role holder an opportunity to discuss his/her job duties and responsibilities
C) enhancing employees' self image
D) none of the above

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is not a trend indicative of increasing workforce diversity?

A) negative attitudes toward authority
B) gender
C) physically challenged workers
D) age

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Workforce diversity refers primarily to the increasing number of ethnic backgrounds entering the workforce.

Question 5

Which is/are true of stress?

A) it involves physiological responses
B) it can be positive
C) it can ultimately lead to withdrawal behaviors
D) all of the above

Question 6

Organizations may encourage employees to participate in stress charting to identify stress symptoms.

Question 7

Stress is an illness covered by employee health insurance.

Question 8

Possible organizational sources of stress for employees include .

A) work overload
B) physical environment
C) role conflict
D) role ambiguity

Question 9

Cultural diversity in the workplace affects which organizational areas?

A) rewards systems
B) employee involvement
C) values, work ethics and norms
D) all of the above

Question 10

Describe the major diversity trends facing organizations and how organizations might use various OD interventions to respond to these trends.

Question 11

Which of the following OD interventions can be best adapted to address employees with disabilities?

A) career planning and development
B) performance management
C) work design
D) all of the above

Question 12

Employee stress and wellness interventions acknowledge the connection between

A) worker productivity and training programs
B) organization effectiveness and role clarification
C) worker health and organization productivity
D) quality of work life and dual income families

Question 13

Stress management is concerned with

A) preventing negative stress outcomes
B) changing organizational conditions to find the right levels of stress
C) ignoring employees' to stress the right behaviors
D) all of the above

Question 14

Discuss methods to diagnose employee stress and the specific OD interventions aimed at alleviating it in the workplace.

Question 15

Role clarification deals with helping employees better understand the demands of all their life's roles.

Question 16

Role clarification helps to alleviate stress in employees who are overworked.

Question 17

Stress has been linked to hypertension, heart disease, and depression.

Question 18

There is decreasing evidence that work-related stress can contribute to a variety of ailments, such as tension headaches, backaches, and high blood pressure.