WGU C715 Organizational Behavior (Recent Exam) with 250+ Questions and Correct Answers (Latest Version)

characteristics that describe an individual's behavior. ------- Correct Answers ------- personality characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations ------- Correct Answers ------- personality traits A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior ------- Correct Answers ------- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. ------- Correct Answers ------- Big Five Model A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive (confident and forceful ) ------- Correct Answers ------- extraversion A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting. ------- Correct Answers ------- agreeableness A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized. ------- Correct Answers ------- conscientiousness A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure. ------- Correct Answers ------- emotional stability A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity. ------- Correct Answers ------- openness to experience Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person. ------- Correct Answers ------- core self-evaluation The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. ------- Correct Answers ------- Machiavellianism The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. ------- Correct Answers ------- narcissism where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. ------- Correct Answers ------- self-monitoring People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. ------- Correct Answers ------- proactive personality 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. ------- Correct Answers ------- values A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. ------- Correct Answers ------- value system Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family security, recognition) ------- Correct Answers ------- terminal values Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence) ------- Correct Answers ------- instrumental values A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover. ------- Correct Answers ------- personality Job-fit theory where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. ------- Correct Answers ------- power distance where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. ------- Correct Answers ------- individualism