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NCE Exam: Lifestyle and Career Development with COMPLETE SOLUTION

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NCE Exam: Lifestyle and Career Development with COMPLETE SOLUTION Over ___% of marriages are dual-earner marriages. - ✔✔54 (Around 60% when looking at marriages with children. In 1950, it was 20.4%.) Studies suggest how many workers snare a job based on chance factors? - ✔✔1 in 5 What ____% of all college students have career difficulties? - ✔✔50 (of all college students) What are 're-entry women'? - ✔✔Women who have made the transition from homemaker to jobs outside the home. Displaced homemaker - ✔✔A woman with children who was a homemaker but is currently in need of work to support her family. What is meant by the term 'glass ceiling'? - ✔✔Suggests women are limited in terms of how far they can advance in the workforce; is a form of occupational gender role stereotyping that can limit a woman's careers. Women now compromise _____% of the workforce; approximately ____ ______ workers. - ✔✔46%, 69 million John O. Crites - ✔✔Feels the need for career counseling exceeds the need for therapy. Victor Vroom's Motivation and Management Expectancy Theory - ✔✔suggests employee performance is influenced by: valance (rewards such as money, promotion, or satisfaction), expectancy (what am I capable of doing?), and instrumentality (will management come through with promised rewards?) Vocational guidance - ✔✔A developmental and educational process within a school system.Career counseling - ✔✔A therapeutic service for adults with occupational goals that is performed outside the educational setting. A Bachelor's degree - ✔✔on average, this boosts yearly income by $10,000 over that of worker with a high school diploma. ____% of workers have a high school diploma. - ✔✔75% "Changing View of Work" - ✔✔indicates that in the past, work was seen as drudgery, while today it is viewed as a vehicle to express our identity, self-esteem, and status. Which ethnic group has the highest % of Bachelor's degrees? - ✔✔Asians followed by Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics Leisure time - ✔✔is time away from work where the individual has freedom to choice what he/she would like to do. Career is sometimes defined as - ✔✔the total work one does in a lifetime plus leisure. Avocation - ✔✔A leisure activity one engages in for pleasure rather than money. Dual-career families - ✔✔have less leisure time than single-career families. (Note the up-and-coming specialty, "leisure counseling") Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ✔✔states women should have equal work opportunities and equal job pay. 80% Four-fifths Rule - ✔✔Used to determine discrimination selection processes. The hiring rate for minorities is divided by the hiring rate for non-minorities, and the result must be 80% or greater.Adverse impact - ✔✔occurs if the quotient from the Four-fifths Rule is less than 80%. Differential validity - ✔✔a test is valid for one group, but less or totally invalid for another Trait-and-factor theory - ✔✔Assumes through testing, one's personality can be matched to an occupation geared toward those traits. -Considered 1st major and most durable theory of career choice. (Computer-based career programs often adhere to this model.)

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