WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership EXAM WITH ANSWERS

WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and
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Leadership EXAM WITH ANSWERS |\ |\ |\




personality - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Enduring characteristics that
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describe an individual's behavior
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Heredity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Factors determined at
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conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent
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psychological makeup |\




personality traits - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Enduring
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characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
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Big Five model - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A personality
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assessment model that taps five basic dimensions
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extroversion - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A Big Five personality
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dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and
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assertive


agreeableness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A Big Five personality
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dimension that describes someone who is good-natured,
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cooperative, and trusting |\ |\

,conscientiousness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A Big Five personality |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


dimension that describes someone who is responsible,
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dependable, persistent, and organized |\ |\ |\




emotional stability - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A Big Five
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personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-
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confident, secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and
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insecure (negative) |\




openness to experience - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A personality
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dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination,
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sensitivity, and curiosity |\ |\




core self-evaluation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Bottom-line
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conclusions individuals have about their capabilities,
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competence, and worth as a person |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Machiavellianism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The degree to which |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
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believes that ends can justify means
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narcissism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The tendency to be arrogant,
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have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive
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admiration, and have a sense of entitlement |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




self-monitoring - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A personality trait that |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to
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external, situational factors |\ |\

,proactive personality - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔People who
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identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere
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until meaningful change occurs
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Other-orientation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A personality trait that |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


reflects the extent to which decisions are affected by social
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influences and concerns vs. our own well-being and outcomes
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values - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Basic convictions that a specific
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mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or
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socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or
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end-state of existence (content & intensity)
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value system - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A hierarchy based on a
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ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity
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terminal values - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Desirable end-states of
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existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or
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her lifetime
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instrumental values - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Preferable modes of
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behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values
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personality-job fit theory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A theory that |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between
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personality type and occupational environment determines
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satisfaction and turnover |\ |\

, person-organization fit - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Argues that |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


people are attracted to and selected by organizations that match
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their values, and they leave organizations that are not
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compatible with their personalities |\ |\ |\




power distance - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A national culture
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attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts
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that power in institutions and organizations is distributed
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unequally


masculinity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A national culture attribute |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


that describes the extent to which the culture favors traditional
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masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control.|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


Societal values are characterized by assertiveness and
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materialism.


femininity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A national culture attribute
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that indicates little differentiation between male and female
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roles; a high rating indicates that women are treated as the
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equals of men in all aspects of the society.
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uncertainty avoidance - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A national |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society
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feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries
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to avoid them.
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long-term orientation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A national culture
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attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence
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