Suppose You Are Interning with an Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychologist

question 87

Multiple Choice

Suppose you are interning with an industrial-organizational (I/O) psychologist. The I/O psychologist is consulting with an automobile factory supervisor to help improve the employee experience. You sit in on an interview in which the plant supervisor shares that he has observed unusually high numbers of his manufacturing employees leaving the assembly plant over the past 3 years. If the I/O psychologist utilizes Robert Karasek's research on occupational stress, which of the following suggestions is he MOST likely to make to the plant supervisor?

• A) Increase expectations and the psychological demands made upon the manufacturing employees.
• B) Create situations in which the manufacturing employees will have more competition with one another.
• C) Give manufacturing employees less control over their decision-making and prevent individual initiative.
• D) Let manufacturing employees take more initiative and have more control over their decision-making.

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