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wgu C715 Organizational Behavior
Questions and Answers
personality
Ans: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits
Ans: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large
number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Ans: A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies
Behavior
Big Five Model
Ans: A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
extraversion
Ans: A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
agreeableness
Ans: A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness
Ans: A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability
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Ans: A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
and insecure.
openness to experience
Ans: A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination,
sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation
Ans: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities,
competence, and worth as a person.
Machiavellianism
Ans: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism
Ans: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring
Ans: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
proactive personality
Ans: People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and
persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values
Ans: 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.
value system
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Ans: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of
their intensity.
terminal values
Ans: Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
instrumental values
Ans: Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty, sincerity,
ambition, independence)
personality Job-fit theory
Ans: A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the
fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover.
power distance
Ans: where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations
is distributed unequally.
individualism
Ans: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members
of groups.
collectivism
Ans: A national culture attribute that describes a tight social framework
in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look
after them and protect them.
masculinity
Ans: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achievement, power, and control.
femininity
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Ans: indicates little differentiation between male and female roles;
where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the
society.
uncertainty avoidance
Ans: A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a
society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries
to avoid them.
long-term orientation
Ans: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and
persistence.
short-term orientation
Ans: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past and present,
respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people value
the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see
commitments as impediments to change.
heredity
Ans: factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological,
and inherent psychological makeup.
Perception
Ans: A process by which individuals organize and interpret their
sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory
Ans: An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error
Ans: The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors
and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making
judgments about the behavior of others.
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wgu C715 Organizational Behavior
Questions and Answers
personality
Ans: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits
Ans: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large
number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Ans: A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies
Behavior
Big Five Model
Ans: A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
extraversion
Ans: A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
agreeableness
Ans: A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness
Ans: A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability
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Ans: A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
and insecure.
openness to experience
Ans: A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination,
sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation
Ans: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities,
competence, and worth as a person.
Machiavellianism
Ans: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism
Ans: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring
Ans: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
proactive personality
Ans: People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and
persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values
Ans: 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.
value system
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Ans: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of
their intensity.
terminal values
Ans: Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
instrumental values
Ans: Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty, sincerity,
ambition, independence)
personality Job-fit theory
Ans: A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the
fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover.
power distance
Ans: where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations
is distributed unequally.
individualism
Ans: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members
of groups.
collectivism
Ans: A national culture attribute that describes a tight social framework
in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look
after them and protect them.
masculinity
Ans: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achievement, power, and control.
femininity
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Ans: indicates little differentiation between male and female roles;
where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the
society.
uncertainty avoidance
Ans: A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a
society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries
to avoid them.
long-term orientation
Ans: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and
persistence.
short-term orientation
Ans: A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past and present,
respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people value
the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see
commitments as impediments to change.
heredity
Ans: factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological,
and inherent psychological makeup.
Perception
Ans: A process by which individuals organize and interpret their
sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory
Ans: An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error
Ans: The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors
and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making
judgments about the behavior of others.
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