MGMT 3000 C715 Organizational Behavior EXAM PREP
LATEST 2024/2025 EXAM QUESTION AND ANSWERS
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Individuals behave in certain ways for certain reasons. Reasons for certain behaviors
come from influences. Name potential influences. - ANSWER: biological, personal,
social, environmental
T/F: Potential influences (like mentioned in Q1) will not have an impact on the
performance of an organization's workforce. - ANSWER: FALSE- influences will have a
big impact
How do psychologists define personality? - ANSWER: growth and development of a
person's psychological system
What is our definition of personality? - ANSWER: enduring characteristics that
describe an individuals behavior
What is the most common way for a manager to measure employee personality? -
ANSWER: through self-report surveys
(eg: how much do you worry)
Which is the better predictor of success on the job? Self-report surveys or observer-
ratings survey? - ANSWER: observer-rating surveys
Does research support environment or hereditary more as an influence of
personality? - ANSWER: Hereditary is shown to be the bigger influencer (supports
both)
- factors determined at conception
- one's biological, physiological, and inherent physiolog. makeup - ANSWER: Heredity
What are the dominate frameworks for identifying and classifying traits? - ANSWER:
1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2. Big 5 Model
Name the most widely used personality-assessment instrument in the world -
ANSWER: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What test?
- 100 question personality test
- asks how ppl feel or act in situations
- classifications include: extraverted, intraverted, sensing, intuitive and more -
ANSWER: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
,Is the Meyers-Briggs test best for...
1. Job performance assessment and selection for best candidate
OR
2. Increasing self-awareness and providing career guidance - ANSWER: 2
Performance is usually unrelated to job performance and managers shouldn't use it
for selection.
Which test?:
- personality assessment that taps five basic dimensions - ANSWER: Big Five Model
This test is very accurate at predicting how people behave in real life situations -
ANSWER: Big Five Model
A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and
assertive. - ANSWER: extraversion
A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative,
and trusting. - ANSWER: agreeableness
A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable,
persistent, and organized. - ANSWER: conscientiousness
A personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure
(positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative). - ANSWER: emotional
stability
A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination,
sensitivity, and curiosity. - ANSWER: openness to experience
T/F: The preponderance of evidence shows that individuals who are dependable,
reliable, careful, thorough, able to plan, organized, hardworking, persistent, and
achievement-oriented tend to have higher job performance in most if not all
occupations - ANSWER: TRUE
bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and
worth as a person - ANSWER: what is core-self evaluation
The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. - ANSWER: Machiavellianism
The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. - ANSWER: narcissism
, A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior
to external, situational factors. - ANSWER: self-monitoring
People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. - ANSWER: Proactive personality
T/F: Personality predicts the performance of entrepreneurs. - ANSWER: TRUE
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. - ANSWER: values
A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. -
ANSWER: value system
Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his
or her lifetime. - ANSWER: terminal values
Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. -
ANSWER: instrumental values
A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between
personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and
turnover. - ANSWER: personality-job fit theory
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that
power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. - ANSWER: power
distance
A national culture attribute that describes the degree to which people prefer to act
as individuals rather than as members of groups. - ANSWER: individualism
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. - ANSWER: collectivism
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which the culture favors
traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control. Societal values
are characterized by assertiveness and materialism. - ANSWER: masculinity
A national culture attribute that indicates little differentiation between male and
female roles; a high rating indicates that women are treated as the equals of men in
all aspects of the society. - ANSWER: femininity
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society feels
threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them. -
ANSWER: uncertainty avoidance
LATEST 2024/2025 EXAM QUESTION AND ANSWERS
100% ACCURATE WGU
Individuals behave in certain ways for certain reasons. Reasons for certain behaviors
come from influences. Name potential influences. - ANSWER: biological, personal,
social, environmental
T/F: Potential influences (like mentioned in Q1) will not have an impact on the
performance of an organization's workforce. - ANSWER: FALSE- influences will have a
big impact
How do psychologists define personality? - ANSWER: growth and development of a
person's psychological system
What is our definition of personality? - ANSWER: enduring characteristics that
describe an individuals behavior
What is the most common way for a manager to measure employee personality? -
ANSWER: through self-report surveys
(eg: how much do you worry)
Which is the better predictor of success on the job? Self-report surveys or observer-
ratings survey? - ANSWER: observer-rating surveys
Does research support environment or hereditary more as an influence of
personality? - ANSWER: Hereditary is shown to be the bigger influencer (supports
both)
- factors determined at conception
- one's biological, physiological, and inherent physiolog. makeup - ANSWER: Heredity
What are the dominate frameworks for identifying and classifying traits? - ANSWER:
1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
2. Big 5 Model
Name the most widely used personality-assessment instrument in the world -
ANSWER: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
What test?
- 100 question personality test
- asks how ppl feel or act in situations
- classifications include: extraverted, intraverted, sensing, intuitive and more -
ANSWER: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
,Is the Meyers-Briggs test best for...
1. Job performance assessment and selection for best candidate
OR
2. Increasing self-awareness and providing career guidance - ANSWER: 2
Performance is usually unrelated to job performance and managers shouldn't use it
for selection.
Which test?:
- personality assessment that taps five basic dimensions - ANSWER: Big Five Model
This test is very accurate at predicting how people behave in real life situations -
ANSWER: Big Five Model
A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and
assertive. - ANSWER: extraversion
A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative,
and trusting. - ANSWER: agreeableness
A personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable,
persistent, and organized. - ANSWER: conscientiousness
A personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure
(positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative). - ANSWER: emotional
stability
A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination,
sensitivity, and curiosity. - ANSWER: openness to experience
T/F: The preponderance of evidence shows that individuals who are dependable,
reliable, careful, thorough, able to plan, organized, hardworking, persistent, and
achievement-oriented tend to have higher job performance in most if not all
occupations - ANSWER: TRUE
bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and
worth as a person - ANSWER: what is core-self evaluation
The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. - ANSWER: Machiavellianism
The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. - ANSWER: narcissism
, A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior
to external, situational factors. - ANSWER: self-monitoring
People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. - ANSWER: Proactive personality
T/F: Personality predicts the performance of entrepreneurs. - ANSWER: TRUE
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. - ANSWER: values
A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. -
ANSWER: value system
Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his
or her lifetime. - ANSWER: terminal values
Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. -
ANSWER: instrumental values
A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between
personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and
turnover. - ANSWER: personality-job fit theory
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that
power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. - ANSWER: power
distance
A national culture attribute that describes the degree to which people prefer to act
as individuals rather than as members of groups. - ANSWER: individualism
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. - ANSWER: collectivism
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which the culture favors
traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control. Societal values
are characterized by assertiveness and materialism. - ANSWER: masculinity
A national culture attribute that indicates little differentiation between male and
female roles; a high rating indicates that women are treated as the equals of men in
all aspects of the society. - ANSWER: femininity
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society feels
threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them. -
ANSWER: uncertainty avoidance
