WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
personality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large
number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality test that taps four
characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
extraversion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
agreeableness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-
confident, and insecure.
openness to experience - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that characterizes someone in terms of
imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their
capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
,Machiavellianism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
proactive personality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms
of their intensity.
terminal values - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
instrumental values - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty,
sincerity, ambition, independence)
personality Job-fit theory - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally.
, individualism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members
of groups.
collectivism - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achievement, power, and control.
femininity - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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.
long-term orientation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future,
thrift, and persistence.
short-term orientation - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and
inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory
impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused.
AND ANSWERS
personality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large
number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality test that taps four
characteristics and classifies Behavior
Big Five Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
extraversion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confident and forceful )
agreeableness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-
confident, and insecure.
openness to experience - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A personality that characterizes someone in terms of
imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their
capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
,Machiavellianism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
proactive personality - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take
action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
values - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms
of their intensity.
terminal values - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family
security, recognition)
instrumental values - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty,
sincerity, ambition, independence)
personality Job-fit theory - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally.
, individualism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members
of groups.
collectivism - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achievement, power, and control.
femininity - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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.
long-term orientation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future,
thrift, and persistence.
short-term orientation - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and
inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory
impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is
internally or externally caused.
