Questions and Answers of Coaching Supervision A Practical Guide For Supervisees

Ask someone you know (family, friend or neighbour) who has a job in a large company or institution about the current amount and speed of work in their job. Next, ask this person to describe the
Self-ratings and other ratings of quantitative job demands are only weakly to moderately related. This is probably because job demands only partially lend themselves to external observation. Discuss
Suppose you have to examine employees’ health and well-being in several supermarkets. What job stress model would you prefer as a basis for your examination? Explain why, taking both theoretical
evaluate the practical value of existing research from the perspectives of employees, employers and organizations.
Self-efficacy may be viewed as a trait-like characteristic, as a state-like characteristic or as a state. How is this possible? Provide one example from everyday working life for each of these three
Which age conceptualisations are important to predict differences between younger and older workers? Provide reasons for your answer.
understand how these categories of subjective employee characteristics relate to work-related outcomes.
distinguish among three categories of subjective employee characteristics, based on their levels of changeability (i.e. trait-like characteristics, state-like characteristics and states);
understand possible effects of lifestyle risk factors;
understand possible effects of ethnicity;
understand gender differences with regard to work-related outcomes;
understand the diversity and complexity of ageing in the workplace;
distinguish between objective and subjective employee characteristics;
Summarize the main advantages of adopting a micro-perspective approach in explaining sick leave.
What counts most in explaining work-related outcomes, objective or subjective worker characteristics? Think of a concrete example when formulating your answer, for instance by focusing on predicting
Should Roger hire the older, extraverted and highly motivated Julia, with relatively little job experience for the PR function, or would he be better to choose another worker?
understand the roles of individual coping strategies and work–family policies and culture in promoting work–family balance in individuals’ lives;
recognize the potential antecedents and outcomes of work–family conflict and work–family enrichment in the domains of both work and family;
explain the most common theories applied in work–family interaction research and know their limitations;
define and compare the basic constructs used in the area of work–family interaction, and understand the context in which they have been developed;
Imagine that you are the CEO of a large company. What factors would you have to consider in order to make sure that workers are happy, healthy and employable, while at the same time striving to reach
How do the individual characteristics that are dealt with in this case influence sustainable employment in a financial company?
Why do employees who are highly conscientious and self-efficacious vary in their performance over time? What could managers do in order to deal with this and to guarantee high-quality output at the
Ask some family members and friends (who know very little about work psychology) whether they would hire Julia. Ask them why they would or would not like to do so. What have you learned about
Besides the aforementioned relevant characteristics, the new job requires a high amount of learning orientation. To what extent do you think one can train Julia in order to increase her learning
As learning point 2 above, but this time consider how theories such as sociotechnical systems and adaptive structuration theory might help you to carry out a study of the implementation and adoption
Imagine a busy manager tells you his company is considering invested in a large-scale IT system (e.g. a new financial system or IT that helps to schedule production processes). What advice would you
Interview an individual (e.g. family member, neighbour) across a holiday period: four days before (pre-vacation), directly after (post-vacation 1) and four days after the holiday (post-vacation 2).
On some weekends it can be difficult to decide for yourself how to spend your time due to, for instance, domestic and/or social obligations. On other weekends you can mostly decide for yourself how
At certain times you might have to expend a great deal of effort on working for exams or assignments and maybe doing a job on the side.a. How do you notice that you have reached your limits or that
Do you think that boundaryless work is primarily advantageous for employees or are there potential disadvantages for employees as well?
Why should we keep going on vacation if research shows that positive vacation effects fade out immediately after resuming work?
What do you think should be preferred and why: permanent night work or a rotating shift system?
Do you think it would make a difference for employee health and well-being whether a worker has 40 contractual hours and 5 overtime hours or whether he or she has 20 contractual hours and 25 overtime
describe how work-time control can promote recovery.
explain why both internal and external recovery are important;
Find an individual (e.g. family member, neighbour, friend) who works at a company that has implemented boundaryless work. Ask him/her the following questions:a. Do you experience much freedom and
understand the context within which work technologies operate and some of the problems associated with their implementation and adoption by end users;
describe some of the recent developments within the field of work psychology and the study of work technologies;
The next time you go to the doctor or visit someone in hospital, think of the healthcare-related information (e.g. some of it covering your address and date of birth, some of it relating to your
The use of work technologies tends to evolve over time and sometimes the characteristics of usage patterns are difficult to predict. Many theories of work technology (e.g. STST) still assume a static
Some theories of work technology remain under-specified and are aimed at a primarily academic audience. There is a need to make these more comprehensible and in a form where they can be used by
User-centred design, although more common now compared to 20 years ago, is still the exception rather than the norm. Convincing designers and employers of the value of adopting an early focus on
Despite a long tradition of research, little attention is paid to the design of new technologies and the impact these may have on individuals and the work systems. Technology is often badly designed
understand some of the limitations of the theories, as well as new developments and future issues within the field of work psychology as it applies to technology
appreciate how these theoretical approaches are applied in practice;
understand two of the most common theoretical approaches used to analyse the impact of technology on work (socio-technical systems theory and adaptive structuration theory);
describe some of the types of approaches which have been applied to the study of work technologies (e.g. human–computer interaction and work and organizational psychology);
describe why abnormal work hours can constitute a health risk;

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