WGU C715
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR//Test
Questions with Detailed Answers
1. Characteristics that describe an individual's behavior: Personality
2. Characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations:
Personality traits
3. A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies behavior: Myers-Briggs
type indicator (mbti)
4. A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. Extraversion,
agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism: Big five model
5. A personality describing someone sociable and assertive (confident and forceful)
Extraversion
6. A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
Agreeableness
7. A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and
organized. Conscientiousness
8. A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
Emotional stability
9. A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and
curiosity. Openness to experience
10. Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth
as a person. Core self-evaluation
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11. The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. Machiavellianism
12. The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a
sense of entitlement. Narcissism
13. Where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational
factors. Self-monitoring
14. People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. Proactive personality
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. Values
15. A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. Value
system
16. Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or
her lifetime. Terminal values
17. Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. Instrumental
values
18. A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality
type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover. Personality
job-fit theory
19. Where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed
unequally. Power distance
20. Where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups.
Individualism
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