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BUAD 304 Midterm - USC Cummings Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
USC-CT
Ans: Uncover problems, Select most critical problems, Create potential solutions,
Choose solutions with most potential, Translate solutions into implementation plan
Values
Ans: ideals that guide our thinking and behavior across all situations (especially at
work), relatively stable across time and most situations
Where do values come from?
Ans: parents, childhood experiences, spiritual beliefs, culture, age generation
What determines success/failure in an organization?
Ans: How well self fits with the organization's values
When hiring, how do organizations achieve fit?
Ans: selection (assessment tests, interviews) and/or socialization (boot camps,
training, coaching and counseling)
In order for you to be satisfied in a job, you should
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Ans: actively seek a job that best fits you - be as selective as the company is, don't
settle
Schwartz's Value Theory
Ans: 2 sets of bipolar values (self-transcendence vs self enhancement, openness to
change vs conservation) are what motivate our behavior across any context - values
adjacent to each other on diagram are complementary, values across from each other
are incongruent
Self-transcendence
Ans: the concern for the welfare/interests of others (universalism, benevolence)
Openness to change
Ans: self-directed independence (hedonism, stimulation, self-direction)
Self-enhancement
Ans: the pursuit of one's own interests, dominance over others (hedonism,
achievement)
Conservation
Ans: conformity, resistance to change (conformity, tradition, security)
Values in Action (VIA) Character Survey
Ans: determines the aspects of self that are morally valued
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Workplace attitudes
Ans: result from the interaction of various individual, group, and organizational
processes - predictors of likely behavior - positive workplace attitudes (job satisfaction,
organizational commitment) lead to positive workplace behaviors (productive behavior,
high job performance)
Cognitive dissonance
Ans: the discomfort we experience when our attitudes conflict with each other or our
behavior - humans are driven to reduce dissonance
Attitudes
Ans: stem from values and represent our feelings or opinions about people, places,
and objects - guide our intent to behave, very difficult to change attitudes because they
are "comfortable"
How we reduce cognitive dissonance
Ans: change attitude and/or change behavior, but it is much easier to change an
attitude than a behavior because you can self-justify your attitude
Personality
Ans: a combination of physical, behavioral, and mental traits that give us our unique
identity, approx. 40% derived from genes and 60% determined by our environment,
relatively stable over time and across situations
Which Big-5 category is the most important?
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BUAD 304 Midterm - USC Cummings Questions
with Detailed Verified Answers
USC-CT
Ans: Uncover problems, Select most critical problems, Create potential solutions,
Choose solutions with most potential, Translate solutions into implementation plan
Values
Ans: ideals that guide our thinking and behavior across all situations (especially at
work), relatively stable across time and most situations
Where do values come from?
Ans: parents, childhood experiences, spiritual beliefs, culture, age generation
What determines success/failure in an organization?
Ans: How well self fits with the organization's values
When hiring, how do organizations achieve fit?
Ans: selection (assessment tests, interviews) and/or socialization (boot camps,
training, coaching and counseling)
In order for you to be satisfied in a job, you should
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,Click here for more: Scholars nexus
Ans: actively seek a job that best fits you - be as selective as the company is, don't
settle
Schwartz's Value Theory
Ans: 2 sets of bipolar values (self-transcendence vs self enhancement, openness to
change vs conservation) are what motivate our behavior across any context - values
adjacent to each other on diagram are complementary, values across from each other
are incongruent
Self-transcendence
Ans: the concern for the welfare/interests of others (universalism, benevolence)
Openness to change
Ans: self-directed independence (hedonism, stimulation, self-direction)
Self-enhancement
Ans: the pursuit of one's own interests, dominance over others (hedonism,
achievement)
Conservation
Ans: conformity, resistance to change (conformity, tradition, security)
Values in Action (VIA) Character Survey
Ans: determines the aspects of self that are morally valued
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Workplace attitudes
Ans: result from the interaction of various individual, group, and organizational
processes - predictors of likely behavior - positive workplace attitudes (job satisfaction,
organizational commitment) lead to positive workplace behaviors (productive behavior,
high job performance)
Cognitive dissonance
Ans: the discomfort we experience when our attitudes conflict with each other or our
behavior - humans are driven to reduce dissonance
Attitudes
Ans: stem from values and represent our feelings or opinions about people, places,
and objects - guide our intent to behave, very difficult to change attitudes because they
are "comfortable"
How we reduce cognitive dissonance
Ans: change attitude and/or change behavior, but it is much easier to change an
attitude than a behavior because you can self-justify your attitude
Personality
Ans: a combination of physical, behavioral, and mental traits that give us our unique
identity, approx. 40% derived from genes and 60% determined by our environment,
relatively stable over time and across situations
Which Big-5 category is the most important?
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