C484 - Organizational Behavior and Leadership Exam Review Questions & Answers. VERIFIED.

C484 - Organizational Behavior and Leadership Exam Review Questions & Answers. VERIFIED. PERSONALITY - -Gordon Allport said personality is "the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment" HEREDITY - -factors determined at conception. MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR - -the most widely used personality assessment in the world. Includes scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling and judging/perceiving. THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL - -personality typing instrument which includes extraversion, agreeableness, Conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience. MACHIAVELLIANISM- (Mach) - -the degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes the end justifies the means. NARCISSISM - -the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. SELF-MONITORING - -a personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. PROACTIVE PERSONALITY - -people identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. VALUES - -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. TERMINAL VALUES - -desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime. INSTRUMENTAL VALUES - -preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. POWER DISTANCE - -a national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. PERCEPTION - -a process