MGT 420 Topic 2 Practice Questions well
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Individual differences are important because they ____________ - correct answer ✔✔(d) help
us more accurately predict how and why people act as they do
Self-awareness is ____________ awareness of others. (a) more important than - correct answer
✔✔(c) as important as
Self-effi cacy is a form of ___________ - correct answer ✔✔(b) self-esteem
Personality encompasses ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(a) The overall combination of
characteristics that capture the unique nature of a person
People who are high in internal locus of control ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(b) believe
that they control their own fate or destiny
Proactive personality is ____________ in today's work environments. - correct answer ✔✔(c)
becoming more important
People who would follow unethical orders without question would likely be high in
____________. - correct answer ✔✔(d) authoritarianism and dogmatism
Managers who are hard-driving, detail-oriented, have high performance standards, and thrive
on routine could be characterized as ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(b) Type A
, Eustress is ____________ stress, while distress is ____________ stress. - correct answer ✔✔(a)
constructive, destructive
Coping involves both ____________ and ____________ elements. - correct answer ✔✔(c)
problem-focused, emotion-focused
When it comes to values, ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(b) value congruence is what
seems to be most important for satisfaction
Culture is ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(d) the learned, shared way of doing things in a
particular society
The demographic makeup of the workforce ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(c) has
experienced dramatic changes in recent decades
Companies that ____________ experience the greatest benefits of workforce diversity - correct
answer ✔✔(a) have learned to employ people because of their difference
The experience in which simply having various diversity groups makes that group category
salient in people's minds is an example of ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(d) social identity
theory
Perception is the process by which people ____________ and interpret information. - correct
answer ✔✔(b) retrieve
When an individual attends to only a small portion of the vast information available in the
environment, this tendency in the perception process is called ____________. - correct answer
✔✔(d) selective screening
answered already passed
Individual differences are important because they ____________ - correct answer ✔✔(d) help
us more accurately predict how and why people act as they do
Self-awareness is ____________ awareness of others. (a) more important than - correct answer
✔✔(c) as important as
Self-effi cacy is a form of ___________ - correct answer ✔✔(b) self-esteem
Personality encompasses ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(a) The overall combination of
characteristics that capture the unique nature of a person
People who are high in internal locus of control ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(b) believe
that they control their own fate or destiny
Proactive personality is ____________ in today's work environments. - correct answer ✔✔(c)
becoming more important
People who would follow unethical orders without question would likely be high in
____________. - correct answer ✔✔(d) authoritarianism and dogmatism
Managers who are hard-driving, detail-oriented, have high performance standards, and thrive
on routine could be characterized as ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(b) Type A
, Eustress is ____________ stress, while distress is ____________ stress. - correct answer ✔✔(a)
constructive, destructive
Coping involves both ____________ and ____________ elements. - correct answer ✔✔(c)
problem-focused, emotion-focused
When it comes to values, ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(b) value congruence is what
seems to be most important for satisfaction
Culture is ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(d) the learned, shared way of doing things in a
particular society
The demographic makeup of the workforce ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(c) has
experienced dramatic changes in recent decades
Companies that ____________ experience the greatest benefits of workforce diversity - correct
answer ✔✔(a) have learned to employ people because of their difference
The experience in which simply having various diversity groups makes that group category
salient in people's minds is an example of ____________. - correct answer ✔✔(d) social identity
theory
Perception is the process by which people ____________ and interpret information. - correct
answer ✔✔(b) retrieve
When an individual attends to only a small portion of the vast information available in the
environment, this tendency in the perception process is called ____________. - correct answer
✔✔(d) selective screening
