FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Ageism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2060
• Professor: Scott Maitland

Document Summary

Layoffs occur most likely because: competition, productivity (more efficient, don"t need as much labour, relocation of operations (china, mexico, cheaper labour, mergers and acquisitions, infusion of new technology or plant obsolescence. Coping with unemployment: unemployed workers have significantly lower mental health, life satisfaction, marital satisfaction, and subjective physical health than employed workers, the effects of job loss vary with age, gender, and education, unemployment rate for many ethnic minority groups are substantially higher than for european americans, how long a person is unemployed affects their reaction. How: age of children not a factor, but the number of children is, stress is lower if men have flexible work schedule that allow them to care for sick children and other matters, stress is higher during the peak parenting years then reduced (baby, adolescent) Rankings (55 and over: watching tv (highest, socializing and communicating, reading, relaxing and thinking, participation in sport, exercise recreation, other.