MGMT 3720 UPDATED SETS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔"Zoe is always in trouble at work. Although she;s competent, hardworking, and
productive, she receives average ratings in performance reviews, and seems to have
made a career out of irritating her bosses. Zoe's problem is that sh;es politically inept
and unable to adjust her behavior to fit changing situations. As she said,'I'm true to
myself. I don;t remake myself to please others.'" What is Zoe showing here? - ✔✔Low
self-monitoring
✔✔Proactive personality - ✔✔-People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs
-Passionate
-Higher levels of job performance, receptive to changes in job demands, often achieve
career success
✔✔Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔
✔✔Person-organization fit - ✔✔A theory that people are attracted to and selected by
organizations that match their values, and leave when there is not compatability
✔✔Realistic - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers physical activities that require skill, strength, and coordination
-Shy, genuine, persistent, stable, conforming, practical
-Mechanic, drill press operator, assembly-line worker, farmer
✔✔Investigative - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers activities that involve thinking, organizing, and understanding
-Analytical, original, curious, independent
-Biologist, economist, mathematician, news reporter
✔✔Social - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-Prefers
activities that involve helping and developing others
-Sociable, friendly, cooperative, understanding
, -Social worker, teacher, counselor, clinical psychologist
✔✔Conventional - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers rule-regulated, orderly, and unambiguous activities
-Conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative, inflexible
-Accountant, corporate manager, bank teller, file clerk
✔✔Enterprising - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers verbal activities in which there are opportunities to influence others and attain
power
-Self-confident, ambitious, energetic, domineering
-Lawyer, real estate agent, public relations specialist, small business manager
✔✔Artistic - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers ambiguous and unsystematic activities that allow creative expression
-Imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional, impractical
✔✔Personality-job fit theory - ✔✔A theory that identifies six personality types and
purposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover
-one of the more proven theories in use internationally
✔✔Hofstede's Five value dimensions of National Culture - ✔✔One of the most widely
referenced approaches for analyzing variations among cultures made in the late 1970s
✔✔Power Distance - ✔✔Describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally
-US ranks low in this, poor countries rank high
pg 157
✔✔Individualism v Collectivism - ✔✔Describes the degree to which people prefer to act
as individuals rather than as members of groups
-US, Great Britain, Australia
-Japan is more collectivist
✔✔Masculinity v Femininty - ✔✔Sweden - F
Japan - M
✔✔Uncertainty Avoidance - ✔✔-Describes the extent to which a society feels
threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them
-Japan has high uncertainty avoidance
-Singapore has low uncertainty avoidance
✔✔Long-term v Short-term orientation - ✔✔-Emphasizes the present and accepts
change
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔"Zoe is always in trouble at work. Although she;s competent, hardworking, and
productive, she receives average ratings in performance reviews, and seems to have
made a career out of irritating her bosses. Zoe's problem is that sh;es politically inept
and unable to adjust her behavior to fit changing situations. As she said,'I'm true to
myself. I don;t remake myself to please others.'" What is Zoe showing here? - ✔✔Low
self-monitoring
✔✔Proactive personality - ✔✔-People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs
-Passionate
-Higher levels of job performance, receptive to changes in job demands, often achieve
career success
✔✔Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔
✔✔Person-organization fit - ✔✔A theory that people are attracted to and selected by
organizations that match their values, and leave when there is not compatability
✔✔Realistic - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers physical activities that require skill, strength, and coordination
-Shy, genuine, persistent, stable, conforming, practical
-Mechanic, drill press operator, assembly-line worker, farmer
✔✔Investigative - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers activities that involve thinking, organizing, and understanding
-Analytical, original, curious, independent
-Biologist, economist, mathematician, news reporter
✔✔Social - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-Prefers
activities that involve helping and developing others
-Sociable, friendly, cooperative, understanding
, -Social worker, teacher, counselor, clinical psychologist
✔✔Conventional - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers rule-regulated, orderly, and unambiguous activities
-Conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative, inflexible
-Accountant, corporate manager, bank teller, file clerk
✔✔Enterprising - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers verbal activities in which there are opportunities to influence others and attain
power
-Self-confident, ambitious, energetic, domineering
-Lawyer, real estate agent, public relations specialist, small business manager
✔✔Artistic - Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations - ✔✔-
Prefers ambiguous and unsystematic activities that allow creative expression
-Imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional, impractical
✔✔Personality-job fit theory - ✔✔A theory that identifies six personality types and
purposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover
-one of the more proven theories in use internationally
✔✔Hofstede's Five value dimensions of National Culture - ✔✔One of the most widely
referenced approaches for analyzing variations among cultures made in the late 1970s
✔✔Power Distance - ✔✔Describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally
-US ranks low in this, poor countries rank high
pg 157
✔✔Individualism v Collectivism - ✔✔Describes the degree to which people prefer to act
as individuals rather than as members of groups
-US, Great Britain, Australia
-Japan is more collectivist
✔✔Masculinity v Femininty - ✔✔Sweden - F
Japan - M
✔✔Uncertainty Avoidance - ✔✔-Describes the extent to which a society feels
threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them
-Japan has high uncertainty avoidance
-Singapore has low uncertainty avoidance
✔✔Long-term v Short-term orientation - ✔✔-Emphasizes the present and accepts
change
