WGU C715 EXAM TEST BANK

WGU C715 EXAM TEST BANK 300+ QS &ANS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR LATEST (VERIFIEDANSWERS)AGRADE What is the most common way for a manager to measure employee personality? - ANSWER- through self-report surveys (eg: how much do you worry) Which is the better predictor of success on the job? Self-report surveys or observer-ratings survey? - ANSWER- observer-rating surveys Does research support environment or hereditary more as an influence of personality? - ANSWER- Hereditary is shown to be the bigger influencer (supports both) - factors determined at conception - one's biological, physiological, and inherent physiolog. makeup What are the dominate frameworks for identifying and classifying traits? - ANSWER- 1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator 2. Big 5 Model Name the most widely used personality-assessment instrument in the world - ANSWER- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator What test? - 100 question personality test - asks how ppl feel or act in situations - classifications include: extraverted, intraverted, sensing, intuitive and more - ANSWER- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Is the Meyers-Briggs test best for... 1. Job performance assessment and selection for best candidate OR 2. Increasing self-awareness and providing career guidance - ANSWER- 2 Performance is usually unrelated to job performance and managers shouldn't use it for selection. Which test?: - personality assessment that taps five basic dimensions - ANSWER- Big Five Model This test is very accurate at predicting how people behave in real life situations - ANSWER- Big Five Model A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive. - ANSWER- extraversion A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting. - ANSWER- agreeableness A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized. - ANSWER- conscientiousness A personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative). - ANSWERemotional stability A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity. - ANSWER- openness to experience T/F: The preponderance of evidence shows that individuals who are dependable, reliable, careful, thorough, able to plan, organized, hardworking, persistent, and achievement-oriented tend to have higher job performance in most if not all occupations - ANSWER- TRUE bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person - ANSWER- what is core-self evaluation The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. - ANSWER- Machiavellianism The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. - ANSWER- narcissism A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. - ANSWER- self-monitoring People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. - ANSWER- Proactive personality T/F: Personality predicts the performance of entrepreneurs. - ANSWER- TRUE Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence. - ANSWER- values A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. - ANSWER- value system Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime. - ANSWER- terminal values Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. - ANSWER- instrumental values A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover. - ANSWER- personality-job fit theory A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. - ANSWERpower distance A national culture attribute that describes the degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. - ANSWER- individualism