MAN 4240 EXAM 3 STUDY GUIDE
conscientiousness - Answers - dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking,
persevering
agreeableness - Answers - kind, cooperative, sympathetic helpful, courteous, warm
neuroticism - Answers - nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous unstable
openness - Answers - curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, sophisticated
extraversion - Answers - talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominate
The Big Five Taxonomy - Answers - CANOE= conscientiousness, agreeable,
neuroticism, openness, extraversion
accomplishment striving - Answers - reflects a strong desire to accomplish task-related
goals as a means of expressing personality
communion striving - Answers - reflects a strong desire to obtain acceptance in
personal relationships as a means of expressing personality.
zero acquaintance - Answers - situations in which two people have only just met
status striving - Answers - reflects a strong desire to obtain a power and influence within
a social structure as a means of expressing personality
positive affectivity - Answers - a dispositional tendency to experience pleasant,
engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation
negative affectivity - Answers - a dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant
moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance
differential reactivity - Answers - neurotic people are less likely to believe they can cope
with the stressors that they experience
locus of control - Answers - reflects whether people attribute the causes of events to
themselves or to the external environment
external locus of control - Answers - people believe:
unhappy things in people's lives are partly due to bad luck.
getting a good job depends mainly on being in the right place at the right time.
exam questions tend to be so unrelated to course work that studying is really useless.
, world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do
about it.
there's not much use in trying too hard to please people.
internal locus of control - Answers - people believe:
people's misfortunes result from the mistakes they make.
becoming a success is a matter of hard work.
in the case of the well prepared student, there is rarely such thing as an unfair test.
the average citizen can have an influence in government decisions.
people are lonely because they don't try to be friendly.
work teams - Answers - designed to be relatively permanent. purpose is to produce
goods and provide services and require a full time commitment from members.
management teams - Answers - designed to be relatively permanent. participate in
managerial-level tasks that affect the entire organization. responsible for coordinating
the activities of organizational subunits to help the organization achieve its long term
goals.
parallel teams - Answers - composed of members from various jobs who provide
recommendations to managers about important issues that run "parallel" to the
organization's production process. require only part time commitment from members.
project teams - Answers - formed to take on "one time" tasks that are generally complex
and require a lot of input from members with different types of training and expertise.
these teams only exist as long as it takes to complete a project. some members work
full time while others only need part time commitment
action teams - Answers - perform tasks that are normally limited in duration. the tasks
are complex and take place in contexts that are highly visible to an audience or of a
highly challenging nature. some of these teams work together for an extended amount
of time or only as long as the project takes.
virtual teams - Answers - the members are geographically dispersed, and
interdependent activity occurs through electronic communications-email, IM, and web
conferencing
five stage progression model - Answers - forming, storming, norming, performing,
adjourning
forming - Answers - members orient themselves by trying to understand their
boundaries in the team
storming - Answers - members remain committed to ideas they bring with them to the
team.
conscientiousness - Answers - dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking,
persevering
agreeableness - Answers - kind, cooperative, sympathetic helpful, courteous, warm
neuroticism - Answers - nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous unstable
openness - Answers - curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, sophisticated
extraversion - Answers - talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, dominate
The Big Five Taxonomy - Answers - CANOE= conscientiousness, agreeable,
neuroticism, openness, extraversion
accomplishment striving - Answers - reflects a strong desire to accomplish task-related
goals as a means of expressing personality
communion striving - Answers - reflects a strong desire to obtain acceptance in
personal relationships as a means of expressing personality.
zero acquaintance - Answers - situations in which two people have only just met
status striving - Answers - reflects a strong desire to obtain a power and influence within
a social structure as a means of expressing personality
positive affectivity - Answers - a dispositional tendency to experience pleasant,
engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation
negative affectivity - Answers - a dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant
moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance
differential reactivity - Answers - neurotic people are less likely to believe they can cope
with the stressors that they experience
locus of control - Answers - reflects whether people attribute the causes of events to
themselves or to the external environment
external locus of control - Answers - people believe:
unhappy things in people's lives are partly due to bad luck.
getting a good job depends mainly on being in the right place at the right time.
exam questions tend to be so unrelated to course work that studying is really useless.
, world is run by the few people in power, and there is not much the little guy can do
about it.
there's not much use in trying too hard to please people.
internal locus of control - Answers - people believe:
people's misfortunes result from the mistakes they make.
becoming a success is a matter of hard work.
in the case of the well prepared student, there is rarely such thing as an unfair test.
the average citizen can have an influence in government decisions.
people are lonely because they don't try to be friendly.
work teams - Answers - designed to be relatively permanent. purpose is to produce
goods and provide services and require a full time commitment from members.
management teams - Answers - designed to be relatively permanent. participate in
managerial-level tasks that affect the entire organization. responsible for coordinating
the activities of organizational subunits to help the organization achieve its long term
goals.
parallel teams - Answers - composed of members from various jobs who provide
recommendations to managers about important issues that run "parallel" to the
organization's production process. require only part time commitment from members.
project teams - Answers - formed to take on "one time" tasks that are generally complex
and require a lot of input from members with different types of training and expertise.
these teams only exist as long as it takes to complete a project. some members work
full time while others only need part time commitment
action teams - Answers - perform tasks that are normally limited in duration. the tasks
are complex and take place in contexts that are highly visible to an audience or of a
highly challenging nature. some of these teams work together for an extended amount
of time or only as long as the project takes.
virtual teams - Answers - the members are geographically dispersed, and
interdependent activity occurs through electronic communications-email, IM, and web
conferencing
five stage progression model - Answers - forming, storming, norming, performing,
adjourning
forming - Answers - members orient themselves by trying to understand their
boundaries in the team
storming - Answers - members remain committed to ideas they bring with them to the
team.
