WGU C715 Organizational Behavior
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT LATEST EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
UPDATED 2025/2026 NEW
SYLLABUS|A+ GRADED|100%
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VERSION!!!
1. organizational survival - ANSWER ✓ The degree to which an organization
is able to exist and grow over the long term
2. power - ANSWER ✓ a capacity that A has to influence the behavior of B so
that B acts in accordance with A's wishes.
3. dependence - ANSWER ✓ B 's relationship to A when A possesses
something that B requires.
4. coercive power - ANSWER ✓ A power base that is dependent on fear of the
negative results from failing to comply.
5. reward power - ANSWER ✓ Compliance achieved based on the ability to
distribute rewards that others view as valuable.
6. legitimate power - ANSWER ✓ The power a person receives as a result of
his or her position in the formal hierarchy of an organization.
7. personal power - ANSWER ✓ Influence derived from an individual's
characteristics.
8. expert power - ANSWER ✓ Influence based on special skills or knowledge.
9. referent power - ANSWER ✓ Influence based on identification with a
person who has desirable resources or personal traits.
,10.power tactics - ANSWER ✓ Ways in which individuals translate power
bases into specific actions.
11.Nine influence tactics - ANSWER ✓ 1. Legitimacy 2. rational Persuasion 3.
Inspirational appeals 4. Consultation 5. Exchange 6. Personal appeals 7.
Ingratiation 8. Pressure 9. Coalitions
12.political skill - ANSWER ✓ The ability to influence others in such a way as
to enhance one's objectives.
13.sexual harassment - ANSWER ✓ Any unwanted activity of a sexual nature
that affects an individual's employment and creates a hostile work
environment.
14.political behavior - ANSWER ✓ Activities that are not required as part of a
person's formal role in the organization but that influence, or attempt to
influence, the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within the
organization.
15.defensive behaviors - ANSWER ✓ Reactive and protective behaviors to
avoid action, blame, or change.
16.impression management - ANSWER ✓ The process by which individuals
attempt to control the impression others form of them.
17.Realistic - ANSWER ✓ prefers physical activities that require skill, strength,
coordination--shy genuine, persistent, stable, conforming, practical--
mechanic, drill press, assembly line, farmer
18.Investigative - ANSWER ✓ prefers activities that involve thinking,
organizing, understanding--analytical, original, curious, independent--
biologist, economist, mathematician, news reporter
19.Social - ANSWER ✓ prefers activities that involve help and developing
others--sociable, griendly, cooperativew, understanding--social worker,
teacher, counselor, slinical psychologist
, 20.conventional - ANSWER ✓ prefers rule-regulated, orderly, and
unambiguous activities--conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative,
inflexible--accountant, corporate manager, bank teller, file clerk
21.Enterprising - ANSWER ✓ prefers verbal activities in which there are
opportunities to influence others and attain power--self-confidence,
ambitious, energetic, domineering--lawyer, real estate, public relations,
small business manager
22.artistic - ANSWER ✓ prefers ambiguous and unsystematic activities that
allow creative expression--imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional,
impractical--paineter, musician, writer, interior decorator
23.personality - ANSWER ✓ characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior.
24.personality traits - ANSWER ✓ characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
25.Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - ANSWER ✓ A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
26.bounded rationality - ANSWER ✓ A process of making decisions by
constructing simplified models that extract the essential features from
problems without capturing all their complexity.
27.intuitive decision making - ANSWER ✓ An unconscious process created out
of distilled experience.
28.anchoring bias - ANSWER ✓ A tendency to fixate on initial information,
from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information.
29.confirmation bias - ANSWER ✓ The tendency to seek out information that
reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past
judgments.
30.availability bias - ANSWER ✓ The tendency for people to base their
judgments on information that is readily available to them.
OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT LATEST EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
UPDATED 2025/2026 NEW
SYLLABUS|A+ GRADED|100%
GUARANTEED PASS||BRAND NEW
VERSION!!!
1. organizational survival - ANSWER ✓ The degree to which an organization
is able to exist and grow over the long term
2. power - ANSWER ✓ a capacity that A has to influence the behavior of B so
that B acts in accordance with A's wishes.
3. dependence - ANSWER ✓ B 's relationship to A when A possesses
something that B requires.
4. coercive power - ANSWER ✓ A power base that is dependent on fear of the
negative results from failing to comply.
5. reward power - ANSWER ✓ Compliance achieved based on the ability to
distribute rewards that others view as valuable.
6. legitimate power - ANSWER ✓ The power a person receives as a result of
his or her position in the formal hierarchy of an organization.
7. personal power - ANSWER ✓ Influence derived from an individual's
characteristics.
8. expert power - ANSWER ✓ Influence based on special skills or knowledge.
9. referent power - ANSWER ✓ Influence based on identification with a
person who has desirable resources or personal traits.
,10.power tactics - ANSWER ✓ Ways in which individuals translate power
bases into specific actions.
11.Nine influence tactics - ANSWER ✓ 1. Legitimacy 2. rational Persuasion 3.
Inspirational appeals 4. Consultation 5. Exchange 6. Personal appeals 7.
Ingratiation 8. Pressure 9. Coalitions
12.political skill - ANSWER ✓ The ability to influence others in such a way as
to enhance one's objectives.
13.sexual harassment - ANSWER ✓ Any unwanted activity of a sexual nature
that affects an individual's employment and creates a hostile work
environment.
14.political behavior - ANSWER ✓ Activities that are not required as part of a
person's formal role in the organization but that influence, or attempt to
influence, the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within the
organization.
15.defensive behaviors - ANSWER ✓ Reactive and protective behaviors to
avoid action, blame, or change.
16.impression management - ANSWER ✓ The process by which individuals
attempt to control the impression others form of them.
17.Realistic - ANSWER ✓ prefers physical activities that require skill, strength,
coordination--shy genuine, persistent, stable, conforming, practical--
mechanic, drill press, assembly line, farmer
18.Investigative - ANSWER ✓ prefers activities that involve thinking,
organizing, understanding--analytical, original, curious, independent--
biologist, economist, mathematician, news reporter
19.Social - ANSWER ✓ prefers activities that involve help and developing
others--sociable, griendly, cooperativew, understanding--social worker,
teacher, counselor, slinical psychologist
, 20.conventional - ANSWER ✓ prefers rule-regulated, orderly, and
unambiguous activities--conforming, efficient, practical, unimaginative,
inflexible--accountant, corporate manager, bank teller, file clerk
21.Enterprising - ANSWER ✓ prefers verbal activities in which there are
opportunities to influence others and attain power--self-confidence,
ambitious, energetic, domineering--lawyer, real estate, public relations,
small business manager
22.artistic - ANSWER ✓ prefers ambiguous and unsystematic activities that
allow creative expression--imaginative, disorderly, idealistic, emotional,
impractical--paineter, musician, writer, interior decorator
23.personality - ANSWER ✓ characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior.
24.personality traits - ANSWER ✓ characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
25.Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - ANSWER ✓ A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
26.bounded rationality - ANSWER ✓ A process of making decisions by
constructing simplified models that extract the essential features from
problems without capturing all their complexity.
27.intuitive decision making - ANSWER ✓ An unconscious process created out
of distilled experience.
28.anchoring bias - ANSWER ✓ A tendency to fixate on initial information,
from which one then fails to adequately adjust for subsequent information.
29.confirmation bias - ANSWER ✓ The tendency to seek out information that
reaffirms past choices and to discount information that contradicts past
judgments.
30.availability bias - ANSWER ✓ The tendency for people to base their
judgments on information that is readily available to them.
