WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

1. personality: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior. 2. personality traits: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations 3. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): A personality test that taps four charac- teristics and classifies Behavior 4. Big Five Model: A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimen- sions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroti- cism. 5. extraversion: A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive (confident and forceful ) 6. agreeableness: A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting. 7. conscientiousness: A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized. 1 / 18 8. emotional stability: A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure. 9. openness to experience: A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity. 10. core self-evaluation: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person. 11. Machiavellianism: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. 12. narcissism: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. 13. self-monitoring: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. 14. proactive personality: People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. 15. values: 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. 16. value system: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms 2 / 18