WGU C715 EXAM TEST BANK FOR ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR LATEST 2025-26-GRADED A
What are the dominate frameworks for identifying and classifying traits?
- ANSWER- 1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2. Big 5 Model
Name the most widely used personality-assessment instrument in the world
- ANSWER- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What test?
- 100 question personality test
- asks how people feel or act in situations
- classifications include: extraverted, introverted, sensing, intuitive and more
- ANSWER- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What is the most common way for a manager to measure employee personality? -
ANSWER- through self-report surveys
(eg: how much do you worry)
Which is the better predictor of success on the job? Self-report surveys
or observer-ratings survey? - ANSWER- observer-rating surveys
Does research support environment or hereditary more as an influence of
personality? - ANSWER- Hereditary is shown to be the bigger influencer
(supports both)
Factors determined at conception
- one's biological, physiological, and inherent physiology makeup
Is the Meyers-Briggs test best for:
1. Job performance assessment and selection for best
candidate OR
2. Increasing self-awareness and providing career guidance - ANSWER- 2
Performance is usually unrelated to job performance and managers shouldn't use it
for selection.
,This test is very accurate at predicting how people behave in real life situations
- ANSWER- Big Five Model
A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and
assertive. - ANSWER- extraversion
A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative,
and trusting. - ANSWER- agreeableness
A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable,
persistent, and organized. - ANSWER- conscientiousness
A personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative). - ANSWER-
emotional stability
A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of
imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity. - ANSWER- openness to experience
T/F: The preponderance of evidence shows that individuals who are
dependable, reliable, careful, thorough, able to plan, organized, hardworking,
persistent, and achievement-oriented tend to have higher job performance in
most if not all occupations - ANSWER- TRUE
bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence,
and worth as a person - ANSWER- what is core-self evaluation
, The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. - ANSWER- Machiavellianism
The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. - ANSWER- narcissism
A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her
behavior to external, situational factors. - ANSWER- self-monitoring
People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. - ANSWER- Proactive personality
T/F: Personality predicts the performance of entrepreneurs. - ANSWER- TRUE
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. - ANSWER- values
A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity.
- ANSWER- value system
Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during
his or her lifetime. - ANSWER- terminal values
Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values.
- ANSWER- instrumental values
A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between
personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and
turnover. - ANSWER- personality-job fit theory
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts
that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. - ANSWER-
power distance
A national culture attribute that describes the degree to which people prefer to act
as individuals rather than as members of groups. - ANSWER- individualism
BEHAVIOR LATEST 2025-26-GRADED A
What are the dominate frameworks for identifying and classifying traits?
- ANSWER- 1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2. Big 5 Model
Name the most widely used personality-assessment instrument in the world
- ANSWER- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What test?
- 100 question personality test
- asks how people feel or act in situations
- classifications include: extraverted, introverted, sensing, intuitive and more
- ANSWER- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What is the most common way for a manager to measure employee personality? -
ANSWER- through self-report surveys
(eg: how much do you worry)
Which is the better predictor of success on the job? Self-report surveys
or observer-ratings survey? - ANSWER- observer-rating surveys
Does research support environment or hereditary more as an influence of
personality? - ANSWER- Hereditary is shown to be the bigger influencer
(supports both)
Factors determined at conception
- one's biological, physiological, and inherent physiology makeup
Is the Meyers-Briggs test best for:
1. Job performance assessment and selection for best
candidate OR
2. Increasing self-awareness and providing career guidance - ANSWER- 2
Performance is usually unrelated to job performance and managers shouldn't use it
for selection.
,This test is very accurate at predicting how people behave in real life situations
- ANSWER- Big Five Model
A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and
assertive. - ANSWER- extraversion
A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative,
and trusting. - ANSWER- agreeableness
A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable,
persistent, and organized. - ANSWER- conscientiousness
A personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative). - ANSWER-
emotional stability
A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of
imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity. - ANSWER- openness to experience
T/F: The preponderance of evidence shows that individuals who are
dependable, reliable, careful, thorough, able to plan, organized, hardworking,
persistent, and achievement-oriented tend to have higher job performance in
most if not all occupations - ANSWER- TRUE
bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence,
and worth as a person - ANSWER- what is core-self evaluation
, The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. - ANSWER- Machiavellianism
The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. - ANSWER- narcissism
A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her
behavior to external, situational factors. - ANSWER- self-monitoring
People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. - ANSWER- Proactive personality
T/F: Personality predicts the performance of entrepreneurs. - ANSWER- TRUE
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. - ANSWER- values
A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity.
- ANSWER- value system
Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during
his or her lifetime. - ANSWER- terminal values
Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values.
- ANSWER- instrumental values
A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between
personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and
turnover. - ANSWER- personality-job fit theory
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts
that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. - ANSWER-
power distance
A national culture attribute that describes the degree to which people prefer to act
as individuals rather than as members of groups. - ANSWER- individualism
