BUS 301 EXAM 2 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What are the big 8?
Answer:
Context/situation, ability, personality/disposition,attitude, outside work
enviornment, perceptions, values
Question:
2. Big 8- Context/ Situation
Answer:
Organization, culture, structure, industry, a certain situation can change a person's
behavior
Question:
3. Big 8- Ability
Answer:
intelligence, GMA(general mental ability), technical skills, with more ability you
perform better
Question:
4. Big 8- personality/disposition
Answer:
disposition to think, act, and feel in different ways
Question:
5. Big 8- attitude
Answer:
beliefs and values a person holds
Question:
6. Big 8- outside work enviornment
Answer:
competing situations, goals and values
Question:
7. Big 8- motivation
Answer:
reinforcements, current reward structure, job design
, Question:
8. Big 8- perceptions
Answer:
experience, needs, emotions, how we perceive things will determine how we
react
Question:
9. what is important to you
Answer:
Big 8- values
Question:
10. The 3 things motivation explains
Answer:
direction, effort, persistence
Question:
11. Motivation as an individual trait and situational factor is
described as:
Answer:
managers can't motivate people, people can only motivate themselves
Question:
12. Specific: make it specific, no general statements
Measurable: decide how, what, when, etc. Be able to measure it
Challenging: goals should be challenging, the more difficult the goal the higher
the performance
Attainable: goals that are too hard will reduce motivation and performance
Relevant: why do you want to achieve the goal?
Time element: incorporate a time element related to accomplishing your goal
Answer:
SMART goals
Question:
13. Importance of goals
Answer:
setting goals gives you long-term vision and short term motivation
CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. What are the big 8?
Answer:
Context/situation, ability, personality/disposition,attitude, outside work
enviornment, perceptions, values
Question:
2. Big 8- Context/ Situation
Answer:
Organization, culture, structure, industry, a certain situation can change a person's
behavior
Question:
3. Big 8- Ability
Answer:
intelligence, GMA(general mental ability), technical skills, with more ability you
perform better
Question:
4. Big 8- personality/disposition
Answer:
disposition to think, act, and feel in different ways
Question:
5. Big 8- attitude
Answer:
beliefs and values a person holds
Question:
6. Big 8- outside work enviornment
Answer:
competing situations, goals and values
Question:
7. Big 8- motivation
Answer:
reinforcements, current reward structure, job design
, Question:
8. Big 8- perceptions
Answer:
experience, needs, emotions, how we perceive things will determine how we
react
Question:
9. what is important to you
Answer:
Big 8- values
Question:
10. The 3 things motivation explains
Answer:
direction, effort, persistence
Question:
11. Motivation as an individual trait and situational factor is
described as:
Answer:
managers can't motivate people, people can only motivate themselves
Question:
12. Specific: make it specific, no general statements
Measurable: decide how, what, when, etc. Be able to measure it
Challenging: goals should be challenging, the more difficult the goal the higher
the performance
Attainable: goals that are too hard will reduce motivation and performance
Relevant: why do you want to achieve the goal?
Time element: incorporate a time element related to accomplishing your goal
Answer:
SMART goals
Question:
13. Importance of goals
Answer:
setting goals gives you long-term vision and short term motivation
