MADM 701 Module 3 Exam Questions
and Answers
Personality - Answers -How people affect others and how thet understand and view
them selves, as well as their pattern of inner and outer measureable traits and person-
situation interaction
Freud's pychoanalytic or physcodyamic theory - Answers -The unconscious
determinants of behavior
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow - Answers -self-actualization and the drive to realize
ones potential
Heredity and the brain - Answers -Nature and nurture contribute to personality
Important role of heredity and the brain - Answers -Self concept & Self esteem
self-concept - Answers -Peoples attempts to understand themselves
self-esteem - Answers -Peoples self perceived competence and self image
Obse - Answers -The self perceived value of oneself as an organizational member
acting within an organization context
person-situation interaction - Answers -Each situation is different
Core Job Characteristics - Answers -skill variety, task identity, task significance,
autonomy, feedback
skill variety - Answers -Extent to which different skills are required
task identity - Answers -Whether job has clear beginning and end
task significance - Answers -Importance of task to company and others
autonomy - Answers -Job independence
Feedback - Answers -Information about progress and performance given
, socialization process - Answers -Personality development consists of s continuous
process and sequence based largely on the learning opportunities and the continuous
impact from the social environment
Successful organizational socialization - Answers -Challenging first job
Relevant training
Timely and consistent feedback
Right person in charge of socialization
Relaxed orientation program
Work groups with high morale
Big Five Personality Traits - Answers -extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness,
emotional stability, openness to experience
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answers -Based on four dimensions of traits
Extra version vs introversion
Sensing vs intuiting
Thinking vs feeling
Judging vs perceiving
Basic Assumptions of personality - Answers -People have all four of these dimensions
but differ in the combination of their preferences for each
No good or bad types
ESTJ associated with manager types
ESTJ - Answers -Extaverted, sensing, thinking and judging
Perception - Answers -Unique interpretation of a situation, not exact recording of it
Sensation - Answers -Senses responsible for people's reality or the raw data about the
world around them
Perception - Answers -Interpretation responsible for filtering modifying or completely
changing raw data to provide meaning
social perception - Answers -How one individual perceives other individuals
How we get to know others
Stereotypes - Answers -Tendency to perceive another person as belonging to a single
class or category
May attribute favorable or unfavorable traits to the person being perceived
and Answers
Personality - Answers -How people affect others and how thet understand and view
them selves, as well as their pattern of inner and outer measureable traits and person-
situation interaction
Freud's pychoanalytic or physcodyamic theory - Answers -The unconscious
determinants of behavior
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow - Answers -self-actualization and the drive to realize
ones potential
Heredity and the brain - Answers -Nature and nurture contribute to personality
Important role of heredity and the brain - Answers -Self concept & Self esteem
self-concept - Answers -Peoples attempts to understand themselves
self-esteem - Answers -Peoples self perceived competence and self image
Obse - Answers -The self perceived value of oneself as an organizational member
acting within an organization context
person-situation interaction - Answers -Each situation is different
Core Job Characteristics - Answers -skill variety, task identity, task significance,
autonomy, feedback
skill variety - Answers -Extent to which different skills are required
task identity - Answers -Whether job has clear beginning and end
task significance - Answers -Importance of task to company and others
autonomy - Answers -Job independence
Feedback - Answers -Information about progress and performance given
, socialization process - Answers -Personality development consists of s continuous
process and sequence based largely on the learning opportunities and the continuous
impact from the social environment
Successful organizational socialization - Answers -Challenging first job
Relevant training
Timely and consistent feedback
Right person in charge of socialization
Relaxed orientation program
Work groups with high morale
Big Five Personality Traits - Answers -extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness,
emotional stability, openness to experience
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answers -Based on four dimensions of traits
Extra version vs introversion
Sensing vs intuiting
Thinking vs feeling
Judging vs perceiving
Basic Assumptions of personality - Answers -People have all four of these dimensions
but differ in the combination of their preferences for each
No good or bad types
ESTJ associated with manager types
ESTJ - Answers -Extaverted, sensing, thinking and judging
Perception - Answers -Unique interpretation of a situation, not exact recording of it
Sensation - Answers -Senses responsible for people's reality or the raw data about the
world around them
Perception - Answers -Interpretation responsible for filtering modifying or completely
changing raw data to provide meaning
social perception - Answers -How one individual perceives other individuals
How we get to know others
Stereotypes - Answers -Tendency to perceive another person as belonging to a single
class or category
May attribute favorable or unfavorable traits to the person being perceived
