WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR.
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Personality - Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
Personality traits - Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a
large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answer: A personality test that taps four
characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - Answer: A personality assessment model that taps five basic
dimensions. Extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
Extraversion - Answer: A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
Agreeableness - Answer: A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
Conscientiousness - Answer: A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
Emotional stability - Answer: A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-
confident, and insecure.
Openness to experience - Answer: A personality that characterizes someone in terms
of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
Core self-evaluation - Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their
capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
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,Machiavellianism - Answer: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
Narcissism - Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
Self-monitoring - Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior
to external, situational factors.
Proactive personality - Answer: People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
Values - Answer: 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.
Value system - Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in
terms of their intensity.
Terminal values - Answer: Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
Instrumental values - Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty,
sincerity, ambition, independence)
Personality Job-fit theory - Answer: A theory that identifies six personality types and
proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover.
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, Power distance - Answer: where society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally.
Individualism - Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as
members of groups.
Collectivism - Answer: A national culture attribute that describes a tight social
framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look after
them and protect them.
Masculinity - Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achievement, power, and control.
Femininity - Answer: indicates little differentiation between male and female roles;
where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
Uncertainty avoidance - Answer: A national culture attribute that describes the extent to
which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to
avoid them.
Long-term orientation - Answer: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future,
thrift, and persistence.
Short-term orientation - Answer: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past
and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. People value the
here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments as
impediments to change.
Heredity - Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological,
and inherent psychological makeup.
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Designed to boost confidence and grades!
Personality - Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
Personality traits - Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a
large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answer: A personality test that taps four
characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - Answer: A personality assessment model that taps five basic
dimensions. Extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
Extraversion - Answer: A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
Agreeableness - Answer: A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
Conscientiousness - Answer: A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
Emotional stability - Answer: A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-
confident, and insecure.
Openness to experience - Answer: A personality that characterizes someone in terms
of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
Core self-evaluation - Answer: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their
capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
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APPHIA - Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
,Machiavellianism - Answer: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
Narcissism - Answer: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
Self-monitoring - Answer: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior
to external, situational factors.
Proactive personality - Answer: People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
Values - Answer: 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.
Value system - Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in
terms of their intensity.
Terminal values - Answer: Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
Instrumental values - Answer: Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty,
sincerity, ambition, independence)
Personality Job-fit theory - Answer: A theory that identifies six personality types and
proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover.
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APPHIA - Crafted with Care and Precision for Academic Excellence.
, Power distance - Answer: where society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally.
Individualism - Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as
members of groups.
Collectivism - Answer: A national culture attribute that describes a tight social
framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look after
them and protect them.
Masculinity - Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achievement, power, and control.
Femininity - Answer: indicates little differentiation between male and female roles;
where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
Uncertainty avoidance - Answer: A national culture attribute that describes the extent to
which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to
avoid them.
Long-term orientation - Answer: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future,
thrift, and persistence.
Short-term orientation - Answer: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past
and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. People value the
here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments as
impediments to change.
Heredity - Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological,
and inherent psychological makeup.
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