WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Final Exam |
Grade A |Questions With Verified Answers (Latest
2023/ 2024)
• personality - ANSWER: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
• personality traits - ANSWER: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - ANSWER: A personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies Behavior
• Big Five Model - ANSWER: A personality assessment model that taps five
basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness,
and neuroticism.
• extraversion - ANSWER: A personality describing someone who is sociable
and assertive (confident and forceful )
• agreeableness - ANSWER: A personality that describes someone who is good
natured, cooperative, and trusting.
• conscientiousness - ANSWER: A personality that describes someone who is
responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
• emotional stability - ANSWER: A personality that characterizes someone as
calm, self-confident, and insecure.
• openness to experience - ANSWER: A personality that characterizes someone
in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
• core self-evaluation - ANSWER: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have
about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person. #$%^^$$%
^&^%$%^&
• Machiavellianism - ANSWER: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, &^%%^&^
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. %$%^&*&^
%%^&*(*%
• narcissism - ANSWER: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. ^&*(*&^%^
&*(*^%$%
• self-monitoring - ANSWER: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her &*(*&%$%
behavior to external, situational factors. ^&*(*&$%^
&**&^%$*
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,WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Final Exam |
Grade A |Questions With Verified Answers (Latest
2023/ 2024)
• proactive personality - ANSWER: People who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
• values - ANSWER: Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or end-
state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse
mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
• value system - ANSWER: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's
values in terms of their intensity.
• terminal values - ANSWER: Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a
person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
• instrumental values - ANSWER: Preferable modes of behavior or means of
achieving one's terminal values.
• personality Job-fit theory - ANSWER: A theory that identifies six personality
types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational
environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
• power distance - ANSWER: where society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally.
• individualism - ANSWER: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than
as members of groups.
• collectivism - ANSWER: A national culture attribute that describes a tight social
framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to
look after them and protect them. #$%^^$$%
^&^%$%^&
• masculinity - ANSWER: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles &^%%^&^
of achievement, power, and control.
%$%^&*&^
%%^&*(*%
• femininity - ANSWER: 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 - ANSWER: A national culture attribute that describes ^&*(*&$%^
the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous
&**&^%$*
situations and tries to avoid them.
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, WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Final Exam |
Grade A |Questions With Verified Answers (Latest
2023/ 2024)
• long-term orientation - ANSWER: A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the future, thrift, and persistence.
• short-term orientation - ANSWER: 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 - ANSWER: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
• Perception - ANSWER: A process by which individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
• attribution theory - ANSWER: An attempt to determine whether an individual's
behavior is internally or externally caused.
• fundamental attribution error - ANSWER: The tendency to underestimate the
influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors
when making judgments about the behavior of others.
• self-serving bias - ANSWER: The tendency for individuals to attribute their own
successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
• selective perception - ANSWER: The tendency to selectively interpret what
one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
• halo effect - ANSWER: The tendency to draw a general impression about an
individual on the basis of a single characteristic. #$%^^$$%
^&^%$%^&
• contrast effect - ANSWER: Evaluation of a person's characteristics that is &^%%^&^
affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher
%$%^&*&^
or lower on the same characteristics.
%%^&*(*%
• stereotyping - ANSWER: Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of ^&*(*&^%^
the group to which that person belongs. &*(*^%$%
&*(*&%$%
• self-fulfilling prophecy - ANSWER: A situation in which a person inaccurately ^&*(*&$%^
perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second
&**&^%$*
person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception.
$$%^&*^%
$#$%^&*&
^%$%^&*(
&^%$^
Grade A |Questions With Verified Answers (Latest
2023/ 2024)
• personality - ANSWER: characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
• personality traits - ANSWER: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - ANSWER: A personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies Behavior
• Big Five Model - ANSWER: A personality assessment model that taps five
basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness,
and neuroticism.
• extraversion - ANSWER: A personality describing someone who is sociable
and assertive (confident and forceful )
• agreeableness - ANSWER: A personality that describes someone who is good
natured, cooperative, and trusting.
• conscientiousness - ANSWER: A personality that describes someone who is
responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
• emotional stability - ANSWER: A personality that characterizes someone as
calm, self-confident, and insecure.
• openness to experience - ANSWER: A personality that characterizes someone
in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
• core self-evaluation - ANSWER: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have
about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person. #$%^^$$%
^&^%$%^&
• Machiavellianism - ANSWER: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, &^%%^&^
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. %$%^&*&^
%%^&*(*%
• narcissism - ANSWER: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. ^&*(*&^%^
&*(*^%$%
• self-monitoring - ANSWER: where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her &*(*&%$%
behavior to external, situational factors. ^&*(*&$%^
&**&^%$*
$$%^&*^%
$#$%^&*&
^%$%^&*(
&^%$^
,WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Final Exam |
Grade A |Questions With Verified Answers (Latest
2023/ 2024)
• proactive personality - ANSWER: People who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
• values - ANSWER: 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 - ANSWER: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's
values in terms of their intensity.
• terminal values - ANSWER: Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a
person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
• instrumental values - ANSWER: Preferable modes of behavior or means of
achieving one's terminal values.
• personality Job-fit theory - ANSWER: A theory that identifies six personality
types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational
environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
• power distance - ANSWER: where society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally.
• individualism - ANSWER: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than
as members of groups.
• collectivism - ANSWER: 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. #$%^^$$%
^&^%$%^&
• masculinity - ANSWER: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles &^%%^&^
of achievement, power, and control.
%$%^&*&^
%%^&*(*%
• femininity - ANSWER: indicates little differentiation between male and female
roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the ^&*(*&^%^
society. &*(*^%$%
&*(*&%$%
• uncertainty avoidance - ANSWER: A national culture attribute that describes ^&*(*&$%^
the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous
&**&^%$*
situations and tries to avoid them.
$$%^&*^%
$#$%^&*&
^%$%^&*(
&^%$^
, WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Final Exam |
Grade A |Questions With Verified Answers (Latest
2023/ 2024)
• long-term orientation - ANSWER: A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the future, thrift, and persistence.
• short-term orientation - ANSWER: 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 - ANSWER: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
• Perception - ANSWER: A process by which individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
• attribution theory - ANSWER: An attempt to determine whether an individual's
behavior is internally or externally caused.
• fundamental attribution error - ANSWER: The tendency to underestimate the
influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors
when making judgments about the behavior of others.
• self-serving bias - ANSWER: The tendency for individuals to attribute their own
successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
• selective perception - ANSWER: The tendency to selectively interpret what
one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
• halo effect - ANSWER: The tendency to draw a general impression about an
individual on the basis of a single characteristic. #$%^^$$%
^&^%$%^&
• contrast effect - ANSWER: Evaluation of a person's characteristics that is &^%%^&^
affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher
%$%^&*&^
or lower on the same characteristics.
%%^&*(*%
• stereotyping - ANSWER: Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of ^&*(*&^%^
the group to which that person belongs. &*(*^%$%
&*(*&%$%
• self-fulfilling prophecy - ANSWER: A situation in which a person inaccurately ^&*(*&$%^
perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second
&**&^%$*
person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception.
$$%^&*^%
$#$%^&*&
^%$%^&*(
&^%$^
