MGMT 3720 STUDYS GUIDE ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
Personality - ✔✔-Dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a
person's whole psychological system; not easy to measure
-the sum of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others
✔✔Ways to measure personality - ✔✔Self-report surveys
-Problem with measuring is inaccuracy
Observer-ratings surveys
Use both of these when making important employment decesions
✔✔3 Main approaches used to describe personality - ✔✔Structuralist - identify elements
that compose a personality (elements of a personality)
Dynamic - understand how the different parts function together (understand how
everything functions)
Developmental - map the evolution through time of a personality (more challenging)
✔✔What is the most widely used personality framework? - ✔✔Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator - a personality test that taps four characteristic and classifies people into one
of 16 personality types
✔✔Myers-Briggs Indicator - ✔✔Extroverted or Introverted (E/I)
Sensing or Intuitive (S/N)
Thinking of Feeling (T/F)
Perceiving or Judging (P/J)
INTJ - visionary
ESTJ - organizer
ENTP - conceptualizers
✔✔Problem with Myers-Briggs Indicator - ✔✔-the model forces a person into one type
or another; there is no in between
-reliability of the model; when people retake the test, they often get different results
, -difficulty of interpretation
-results from the test tend to be unrelated to job performance
✔✔Big Five Personality Traits - ✔✔-A personality assessment model that taps 5 basic
dimensions
-Depicts personality at its broadest level
-Want to keep these in mind while interviewing
-Not really about job fit, but job performance
-Looking and personal job fit and job performance
✔✔Big Five Factor - Conscientiousness [MOST IMPORTANT AT WORK] - ✔✔-
Measure of reliability
-Highly conscientious person is: responsible, organized, dependable and persistent
-organized, systematic, thorough, hardworking, neat
-Low scorers of this are easily distracted, disorganized and unreliable
✔✔Big Five Factor - Extraversion, surgency, stability, energetic - ✔✔-Captures our
comfort level with relationships
-Gregarious, assertive, and sociable
-Happier and ambitious
-Experience more positive emotions that introverts, and more freely express these
feelings
✔✔Big Five Factor - Agreeableness - ✔✔-An individual's propensity to defer to others
-Cooperative, warm, and trusting
-good-natured, sympathetic
-slightly happier than disagreeable people
-first choice when organizational team members are being chosen
✔✔Big Five Factor - Emotional stability, adjustment (neuroticism) [THIS IS KEY] - ✔✔-
Captures our comfort level with relationships
-calm, self-confident, and secure
-More likely to be positive and optimistic; experience fewer negative emotions
-Low scorers (high neuroticism) are hyper-vigilant and vulnerable to stress
-nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure
✔✔Big Five Factor - Openness to experience, culture - ✔✔-Addresses the range of
interests and fascination with novelty
-creative, curious and artistically sensitive, depth of feeling, need for variety
-intellectual, artistic, imaginative, orginal
✔✔The Big Five Traits and OB - ✔✔-Emotional Stability is the most tied to job
satisfaction, life satisfaction and stress. The higher the emotional stability, the better
-Extraversion requires a lot of people interaction/ predictor of leadership/ impulsive
QUESTIONS SET A+
Personality - ✔✔-Dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a
person's whole psychological system; not easy to measure
-the sum of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others
✔✔Ways to measure personality - ✔✔Self-report surveys
-Problem with measuring is inaccuracy
Observer-ratings surveys
Use both of these when making important employment decesions
✔✔3 Main approaches used to describe personality - ✔✔Structuralist - identify elements
that compose a personality (elements of a personality)
Dynamic - understand how the different parts function together (understand how
everything functions)
Developmental - map the evolution through time of a personality (more challenging)
✔✔What is the most widely used personality framework? - ✔✔Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator - a personality test that taps four characteristic and classifies people into one
of 16 personality types
✔✔Myers-Briggs Indicator - ✔✔Extroverted or Introverted (E/I)
Sensing or Intuitive (S/N)
Thinking of Feeling (T/F)
Perceiving or Judging (P/J)
INTJ - visionary
ESTJ - organizer
ENTP - conceptualizers
✔✔Problem with Myers-Briggs Indicator - ✔✔-the model forces a person into one type
or another; there is no in between
-reliability of the model; when people retake the test, they often get different results
, -difficulty of interpretation
-results from the test tend to be unrelated to job performance
✔✔Big Five Personality Traits - ✔✔-A personality assessment model that taps 5 basic
dimensions
-Depicts personality at its broadest level
-Want to keep these in mind while interviewing
-Not really about job fit, but job performance
-Looking and personal job fit and job performance
✔✔Big Five Factor - Conscientiousness [MOST IMPORTANT AT WORK] - ✔✔-
Measure of reliability
-Highly conscientious person is: responsible, organized, dependable and persistent
-organized, systematic, thorough, hardworking, neat
-Low scorers of this are easily distracted, disorganized and unreliable
✔✔Big Five Factor - Extraversion, surgency, stability, energetic - ✔✔-Captures our
comfort level with relationships
-Gregarious, assertive, and sociable
-Happier and ambitious
-Experience more positive emotions that introverts, and more freely express these
feelings
✔✔Big Five Factor - Agreeableness - ✔✔-An individual's propensity to defer to others
-Cooperative, warm, and trusting
-good-natured, sympathetic
-slightly happier than disagreeable people
-first choice when organizational team members are being chosen
✔✔Big Five Factor - Emotional stability, adjustment (neuroticism) [THIS IS KEY] - ✔✔-
Captures our comfort level with relationships
-calm, self-confident, and secure
-More likely to be positive and optimistic; experience fewer negative emotions
-Low scorers (high neuroticism) are hyper-vigilant and vulnerable to stress
-nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure
✔✔Big Five Factor - Openness to experience, culture - ✔✔-Addresses the range of
interests and fascination with novelty
-creative, curious and artistically sensitive, depth of feeling, need for variety
-intellectual, artistic, imaginative, orginal
✔✔The Big Five Traits and OB - ✔✔-Emotional Stability is the most tied to job
satisfaction, life satisfaction and stress. The higher the emotional stability, the better
-Extraversion requires a lot of people interaction/ predictor of leadership/ impulsive
