MGMT 2103 STUDY GUIDE ALL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔A(n) _________ test attempts to simulate the job in a pre-hiring context to observe
how the applicant performs in the simulated job
A. Work-sample
B. Honesty
C. Personality
D. Projective
E. Cognitive ability - ✔✔A. Work-sample
✔✔Which of the following is not one of the predominant models of the causes of job
satisfaction?
A. Value attainment
B. Dispositional factors
C. Cognitive dissonance
D. Equity
E. Met expectations - ✔✔Cognitive dissonance
✔✔Predictive validation is generally more useful to the selection process than
concurrent validation because:
A. Predictive validation involves contribution from navy individuals
B. Job applicants often have no information about organizational culture
C. Concurrent validity only assesses scores on a selection test and current performance
while predictive validity focuses on future performances
D. Effort needed for predictive validation is less than for concurrent validation -
✔✔Concurrent validity only assesses scores on a selection test and current
performance while predictive validity focuses on future performances
✔✔True or false: An effective selection process should meet the standards of reliability,
validity, generalizability, utility, and legality - ✔✔True
,✔✔Values represent beliefs that influence behaviors __________; attitudes relate to
behavior __________.
A. Across all situations; toward specific targets
B. Toward specific targets; across all situations
C. Across all situations; toward people
D. Toward specific objects; toward specific people
E. Toward specific people; toward specific objects - ✔✔Across all situations; toward
specific targets
✔✔_________ is the personality trait with the strongest positive relationship with job
performances
A. Extraversion
B. Emotional stability
C. Proactivity
D. Agreeableness
E. Conscientiousness - ✔✔Conscientiousness
✔✔True or false: There is only one model of the causes of job-satisfaction. - ✔✔False
✔✔True or false: Benny has the ability to learn and use spoken and written language.
He shows linguistic intelligence. - ✔✔True
✔✔________ is reflected in this statement: "I feel I am a person of worth, as good as
other people."
A. High self-efficacy
B. Low core self-evaluation
C. High emotional intelligence
D. High self-identification
E. High self-esteem - ✔✔High self-esteem
✔✔The components of attributes include:
A. Values, beliefs, and emotions
B. Affective, cognitive, and behavioral
C. Personal and workplace
D. Perceived and real
E. Public and personal - ✔✔Affective, cognitive, and behavioral
✔✔Core self-evaluations represent a broad personality trait comprised of all of the
following except
A. Emotional stability
B. Generalized self-efficacy
C. Locus of control
D. Proactivity
E. Self-esteem - ✔✔Proactivity
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true of situational interviews?
A. Future-oriented interviews are less valid than experience-based interviews
B. Future-oriented items reduce forms of impression management, such as ingratiation,
better than experience-based items
C. Situational interviews require the candidate to perform a piece of work or accomplish
a task
D. Digitally taped interviews enable employers to better understand how candidates
interact under specific conditions - ✔✔Future-oriented interviews are less valid than
experience-based interviews
✔✔_________ is the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to
discriminate among them, and use this information to guide one's thinking and action
A. Proactivity
B. Emotional stability
C. Emotional intelligence
D. Core self-evaluation
E. Self-efficacy - ✔✔Emotional intelligence
✔✔Mason is highly satisfied with his job. He receives consistently strong evaluations
and volunteers to train new employees. Mason exhibits positive job performance and
A. Community involvement
B. Organizational citizenship behaviors
C. Genetic components
D. Withdraw cognitions
E. Personal motivation - ✔✔Organizational citizenship behaviors
✔✔True or false: relatively flexible individuals differences (IDs) include attitudes and
emotions, and managers can help manage these type of differences - ✔✔True
✔✔_________ is the harnessing of organizational members' selves to their work roles
A. Employee involvement
B. Employee engagement
C. Organization commitment
D. Job satisfaction
E. Organizational citizenship behavior - ✔✔Employee engagement
✔✔The main provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act states that each
employer should furnish each employee a place of employment free from recognized
hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious harm. This is referred to as
the
A. General duty clause
B. Death clause
C. Employee clause
D. First aid clause - ✔✔General duty clause
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔A(n) _________ test attempts to simulate the job in a pre-hiring context to observe
how the applicant performs in the simulated job
A. Work-sample
B. Honesty
C. Personality
D. Projective
E. Cognitive ability - ✔✔A. Work-sample
✔✔Which of the following is not one of the predominant models of the causes of job
satisfaction?
A. Value attainment
B. Dispositional factors
C. Cognitive dissonance
D. Equity
E. Met expectations - ✔✔Cognitive dissonance
✔✔Predictive validation is generally more useful to the selection process than
concurrent validation because:
A. Predictive validation involves contribution from navy individuals
B. Job applicants often have no information about organizational culture
C. Concurrent validity only assesses scores on a selection test and current performance
while predictive validity focuses on future performances
D. Effort needed for predictive validation is less than for concurrent validation -
✔✔Concurrent validity only assesses scores on a selection test and current
performance while predictive validity focuses on future performances
✔✔True or false: An effective selection process should meet the standards of reliability,
validity, generalizability, utility, and legality - ✔✔True
,✔✔Values represent beliefs that influence behaviors __________; attitudes relate to
behavior __________.
A. Across all situations; toward specific targets
B. Toward specific targets; across all situations
C. Across all situations; toward people
D. Toward specific objects; toward specific people
E. Toward specific people; toward specific objects - ✔✔Across all situations; toward
specific targets
✔✔_________ is the personality trait with the strongest positive relationship with job
performances
A. Extraversion
B. Emotional stability
C. Proactivity
D. Agreeableness
E. Conscientiousness - ✔✔Conscientiousness
✔✔True or false: There is only one model of the causes of job-satisfaction. - ✔✔False
✔✔True or false: Benny has the ability to learn and use spoken and written language.
He shows linguistic intelligence. - ✔✔True
✔✔________ is reflected in this statement: "I feel I am a person of worth, as good as
other people."
A. High self-efficacy
B. Low core self-evaluation
C. High emotional intelligence
D. High self-identification
E. High self-esteem - ✔✔High self-esteem
✔✔The components of attributes include:
A. Values, beliefs, and emotions
B. Affective, cognitive, and behavioral
C. Personal and workplace
D. Perceived and real
E. Public and personal - ✔✔Affective, cognitive, and behavioral
✔✔Core self-evaluations represent a broad personality trait comprised of all of the
following except
A. Emotional stability
B. Generalized self-efficacy
C. Locus of control
D. Proactivity
E. Self-esteem - ✔✔Proactivity
, ✔✔Which of the following statements is true of situational interviews?
A. Future-oriented interviews are less valid than experience-based interviews
B. Future-oriented items reduce forms of impression management, such as ingratiation,
better than experience-based items
C. Situational interviews require the candidate to perform a piece of work or accomplish
a task
D. Digitally taped interviews enable employers to better understand how candidates
interact under specific conditions - ✔✔Future-oriented interviews are less valid than
experience-based interviews
✔✔_________ is the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to
discriminate among them, and use this information to guide one's thinking and action
A. Proactivity
B. Emotional stability
C. Emotional intelligence
D. Core self-evaluation
E. Self-efficacy - ✔✔Emotional intelligence
✔✔Mason is highly satisfied with his job. He receives consistently strong evaluations
and volunteers to train new employees. Mason exhibits positive job performance and
A. Community involvement
B. Organizational citizenship behaviors
C. Genetic components
D. Withdraw cognitions
E. Personal motivation - ✔✔Organizational citizenship behaviors
✔✔True or false: relatively flexible individuals differences (IDs) include attitudes and
emotions, and managers can help manage these type of differences - ✔✔True
✔✔_________ is the harnessing of organizational members' selves to their work roles
A. Employee involvement
B. Employee engagement
C. Organization commitment
D. Job satisfaction
E. Organizational citizenship behavior - ✔✔Employee engagement
✔✔The main provision of the Occupational Safety and Health Act states that each
employer should furnish each employee a place of employment free from recognized
hazards that cause or are likely to cause death or serious harm. This is referred to as
the
A. General duty clause
B. Death clause
C. Employee clause
D. First aid clause - ✔✔General duty clause
