You Are a Supervisor

question 30

Multiple Choice

You are a supervisor.An employee approaches you to express thoughts and feelings about a problem,and exhibits some associated anxiety or discomfort.What do you do?

• A) paraphrase the employee's expressed thoughts and feelings
• B) clarify the employee's implicit thoughts and feelings
• C) affirm contact with the employee
• D) reflect the employee's core feelings

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Definitions:

Self-actualization

The realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, considered as a drive or need present in everyone; the highest level of psychological development in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Angst

A profound and deep-seated feeling of dread, anxiety or anguish often associated with the existential concerns of human freedom and responsibility.

Construal

An individual’s particular experience of the world or way of interpreting reality.

Consciousness

The state or quality of awareness or of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.