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WGU C715 Objective Assessment Latest Exam 2023
Questions and Answers (Verified Answers)
1.Employees A and B work together on the same project team. When the
team faces a complex problem, the team leader usually asks B to generate
alternative solutions for the team to consider. Experience has shown that
B is more likely to take initiative, to set ambitious goals, and to feel that the
team can effectively influence its environment. Employee A tends to do
well on jobs that are routine, is plagued with self doubt, and feels that the
team is largely powerless over its environment. ANS Employee A exhibits
negative core self evaluation, and employee B exhibits positive core
self evaluation.
- Employee B was upset by Employee A’s behavior at the
department’s planning meeting.
Which factors will influence Employee B’s perception in this situation?
ANS Sit- uation, target, and perceiver - A person is broadminded, courageous, and forgiving.
Which type of values are these? ANS Instrumental values
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- An employee enjoys having a large span of responsibility and is
motivated to do well because of personal feelings.
Which kind of reward is this? ANS Intrinsic reward
5.Which theory of motivation focuses on 5 levels of needs, and further
sep- arates those needs by lower-order needs and higher-order needs?
ANS Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory - Manager A supervises 10 district units with 100 employees andreceives
$100,000 in compensation. Manager B supervises 5 district units with 50
employees and also receives $100,000 in compensation. Manager A is upsetby this relationship and is looking for a new job.
Which theory explains A’s motivation to look for a new job? ANS Equity
theory - A manager challenged an employee to produce an average of 24
assem- blies each day for a week. This production goal was higher than the
employee had ever achieved during any week. The manager gave the
employee a tally sheet to mark after each assembly was completed.
Considering the goal-setting theory of motivation, the manager was
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WGU C715 EXAM ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 2023
- 1) Esther Lugo has gone for an
interview at an advertising firm in Manhat- tan and has been asked to
complete a self-report survey to help interviewers understand if she is the
right candidate for the job. From the interview, they have found that she is
extroverted, empathic, scrupulous, and cooperative in nature, which are
key characteristics needed for the job. These character- istics about Lugo
indicate her .
A) genealogy B) talent C) skill D) personality E) knowledge ANS D)
personality - Ellen Athers works as a communication executive at a travel house.
She is known to be friendly with her colleagues and interacts with them
regularly to build strong work relationships. She knows that her rapport
with her
co-workers is a crucial part of her work and invests time in these relationships. In addition, while making decisions, she is assertive and colleagues
take her decisions seriously. Which of the following personality types is
Athers most likely to be characterized by according to the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator (MBTI) classification?
A) introverted B) perceiving C) solitary D) brooder E) extraverted ANS E)
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extravert- ed
- Which of the following does the heredity approach state?
A) An individual’s personality is determined by the social background one
is brought up in.
B) An individual’s personality is determined by molecular structure of
the genes.
C) An individual’s personality is influenced by the economic settings he
is surrounded by.
D) A person’s personality traits are created by the company he keeps i.e.,
his friends and family.
E) A person’s personality traits are largely influenced by global trends and
characteristics. ANS B) An individual’s personality is determined by
molecular struc- ture of the genes. - is as important for managers as for front-line
employees and, among all Big Five Model traits, is most consistently
related to job performance.
A) Extroversion
B) Agreeableness
C) Conscientiousness
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D) Emotional stability
E) Openness to experience ANS C) Conscientiousness
- Which of the following statements is true about people with positive
core self-evaluations ?
A) They are committed to their goals and set ambitious goals.
B) They view themselves as powerless over their environment.
C) They tend to question their capabilities and capacities.
D) They lack persistence to achieve goals.
E)They tend to be disliked by superiors and co-workers. ANS A) They are
commit- ted to their goals and set ambitious goals. - Which of the following is true of the baby boomer generation?
A) They give high importance to achievement and material success.
B) They rate highest in friendship and pleasure on the RVS.
C) They are more questioning and entrepreneurial than the other
genera- tions.
D) They lead lives shaped mainly by globalization.
E) They give the highest importance to flexibility and life options. ANS A)
They give high importance to achievement and material success
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- Which of the following statements is most likely to be true
regarding people with proactive personalities?
A) They react passively to situations.
B) They tend to display their true dispositions and attitudes in every
situa- tion.
C) They tend to be selfish and exploitive and believe others exist for
their benefit.
D) They are more likely than others to be seen as leaders.
E) They are narcissistic in nature and require constant admiration. ANS D)
They are more likely than others to be seen as leaders. - Which of the following is true of values ?
A) They are void of a judgmental element
B) They are invariably fluid and flexible in nature.
C) They have content and intensity attributes.
D) They never change irrespective of external factors.
E)They are always established in a person’s later years. ANS D) They
never change irrespective of external factors.
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WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
1.personality: characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior.
2.personality traits: characteristics that describe an individual’s
behavior in a large number of situations
3.Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): A personality test that taps four
charac- teristics and classifies Behavior
4.Big Five Model: A personality assessment model that taps five basic
dimen- sions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroti- cism.
5.extraversion: A personality describing someone who is sociable and
assertive (confident and forceful )
6.agreeableness: A personality that describes someone who is good
natured, cooperative, and trusting.
7.conscientiousness: A personality that describes someone who is
responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
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8.emotional stability: A personality that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
9.openness to experience: A personality that characterizes someone in
terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
10.core self-evaluation: Bottom-line conclusions individuals have
about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
11.Machiavellianism: The degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify
means.
12.narcissism: The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
13.self-monitoring: where an individual’s has ability to adjust his or her
behavior to external, situational factors.
14.proactive personality: People who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
15.values: Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct or endstate of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or
converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence.
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16.value system: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual’s
values in terms of their intensity.
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17.terminal values: Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a
person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
18.instrumental values: Preferable modes of behavior or means of
achieving one’s terminal values.
19.personality Job-fit theory: A theory that identifies six personality
types and proposes that the fit between personality type and
occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
20.power distance: where society accepts that power in institutions
and organi- zations is distributed unequally.
21.individualism: where people prefer to act as individuals rather than
as mem- bers of groups.
22.collectivism: A national culture attribute that describes a tight social
frame- work in which people expect others in groups of which they are
a part to look after them and protect them.
23.masculinity: where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
achieve- ment, power, and control.
24.femininity: indicates little differentiation between male and female
roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of
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WGU C715 EXAM ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 2023
1.Johanna Reid, a campaign manager at a child rights organization,
recently started working on an illiteracy project. During the project, she
needs to motivate team members to attain their project milestones and
direct them through different phases of the project. Which of the following
kinds of functions will these tasks be covered under? ANS leading
2.Regina George works as a campaign manager in a not-for-profit
organiza- tion in Hampshire. For the upcoming campaign against genetic
engineering, she is networking with managers who are working on the
issue of food safety. Through her network of contacts, she strives to gain
information about the stakeholders in the food industry and other lobby
groups. Which of the following roles is George most likely to be playing
according to Mintzberg’s classification of managerial roles? ANS liaison
3.The ability to understand, communicate with, motivate, and support
other people, both individually and in groups, may be defined as . ANS
human skills
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- According to Fred Luthans and his associates, managers involved in
traditional management activities undertook which of the following
tasks?-
ANS decision making - According to Fred Luthans and his associates’ study of 450 managers,
made the largest contribution to the success of managers in
terms of speed of promotion within their organization. ANS networking
6.What does the heredity approach state? ANS An individual’s
personality is deter- mined by molecular structure of the genes.
7.Valerie Sinclair, a climate campaigner at an environmental organization,
invariably uses rationale to make decisions for project implementation.
She believes that the right decisions can be made only through scrutiny
and analysis. Each time she needs to make a decision, she weighs all
options before taking action. Which of the following is Sinclair’s
personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
classification? ANS thinking
8.What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a
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measure of personality? ANS It forces a person to be categorized as
either one type or another.
- is as important for managers as for front-line employees and,
among all Big Five Model traits, is most consistently related to job
perfor- mance. ANS Conscientiousness
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WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR STUDY GUIDE
1.The hereditary approach states what? ANS An individual’s personality
is deter- mined by molecular structure of genes.
2.hereditary ANS determined at time of conception
3.Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ANS Most widely used personality test
that includes Extroverted (E) versus Introverted (I), Sensing (S) versus
Intuitive (N), Thinking (T) versus Feeling (F), Judging (J) versus
Perceiving (P
4.What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs personality test? ANS It
forces a person to be categorized as either one type or another.
5.Big 5 Personality Traits ANS Openness, Conscientiousness,
Agreeableness, Ex- troversion, Emotional stability.
6.Among all Big 5 personality traits, which one is most consistently
related to job performance? ANS conscientiousness
7.narcissism ANS The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose
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sense of self-im- portance, require excessive admiration, and have a
sense of entitlement.
8.Individuals scoring have a strong ability to adjust their
behavior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in
different situa- tions. ANS high on self-monitoring
9.People with proactive personalities do what? ANS They are more
likely than others to be seen as leaders.
10.What is true of values? ANS They have content and intensity
attributes.
11.What is an instrumental value? ANS A method of behaviors that get
you to the end result like personal discipline.
12.What is a terminal value? ANS Where you are trying to end up
such as social recognition.
13.What are John Holland’s six personality types? ANS realistic,
investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional. (remember
investigative)
14.With reference to Hofstede’s framework, which country scores the
high- est in individualism? ANS United States
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15.What is perception? ANS A process by which individuals organize
and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to
their environment.
16.What are the three factors that influence perception? ANS Situation,
perceiver, target
17.attributional theory ANS when we observe someone’s behavior, we
attempt to determine whether it was caused by internal or external
factors.
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18.what is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic? ANS Intrinsic is
inside you (fits the pattern) and extrinsic is outside you (breaks the
pattern).
19.dispositional attribution ANS attributing behavior to the person’s
disposition and traits (internal)
20.situational attribution ANS attributing a behavior to some external
cause or factor operating within the situation (an external attribution
like environment)
21.Three determinants of attributions are? ANS distinctiveness,
consensus, and consistency
22.What is the fundamental attribution error? ANS The tendency to
underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the
influence of internal factors when making judgments about the
behavior of others. (behavior of others)
23.What is self-serving bias? ANS The tendency for individuals to
attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for
failures on external factors. (behavior of yourself)
24.What is selective perception? ANS The tendency to selectively
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Organizational Behavior C715 Final Review 2023 Questions1.Esther Lugo has gone for an interview at an advertising firm in
Manhattan and has been asked to complete a self-report survey to help
interviewers understand if she is the right candidate for the job. From the
interview, they have found that she is extroverted, empathic, scrupulous,
and cooperative in nature, which are key characteristics needed for the job.
These character- istics about Lugo indicate her ANS Personality
- Ellen Athers works as a communication executive at a travel house.
She is known to be friendly with her colleagues and interacts with them
regularly to build strong work relationships. She knows that her rapport
with her
co-workers is a crucial part of her work and invests time in these relationships. In addition, while making decisions, she is assertive and colleagues
take her decisions seriously. Which of the following personality types is
Athers most likely to be characterized by according to the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator (MBTI) classification? ANS Extraverted- a personality
dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and
assertive.
3.What does the heredity approach state? ANS B) An individual’s
personality is determined by molecular structure of the genes.
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4.. is as important for managers as for front-line employees
and, among all Big Five Model traits, is most consistently related to job
perfor- mance. ANS Conscientiousness- someone who is responsible,
dependable, persis- tent, and organized. Most consistently related to
increased job performance.
5.What trait is associated with job satisfaction? ANS Emotional Stability.
6.What is a personality assessment model that taps 5 Basic Dimensions?
What are the five dimensions? ANS The Big Five Model- 1.
Extraversion/Intraversion.
- Agreeableness. 3. Conscientiousness. 4. Emotional Stability. 5.
Openess to Experience.
7.What is a core self evaluation? ANS Bottom line conclusions
individuals have about their compatibilities, and worth as a person.
8.Which of the following statements is true about people with positive
core self-evaluations ? ANS They are committed to their goals and set
ambitious goals.
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9.Which of the following is true of the baby boomer generation? ANS
They give high importance to achievement and material success.
10.What is true about Millennials? ANS They are more questioning and
entrepre- neurial than the other generations.
11.What is true about Generations Xers? ANS They give the highest
importance to flexibility and life options.
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12.Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding
people with proactive personalities? ANS They are more likely than
others to be seen as leaders.
13.Which of the following is true of values ? ANS They have content and
intensity attributes. Values are judgemental, tend to be stable, mostly
established in earlier years.
14.According to the Rokeach Value Survey what are terminal and
instrumen- tal values? ANS Terminal Values- desirable end states.
Where you want to be, where you want to achieve.
Instrumental Values- preferable modes of behavior, a means to
achieve terminal values. Behaviors that can get you there.
15.What are some examples of instrumental values? ANS Personal
discipline, self improvemet, autonomy, self reliance, kindness,
ambition.
16.What are some examples of Terminal Values? ANS Economic
Success, social recognition, world peace, Meaning of life
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WGU C715 Practice Test Questions and Answers
2023 – 2024 (Verified Answers)
- Employees A and B work together on the same project team. When the
team faces a complex problem, the team leader usually asks B to generate
alternative solutions for the team to consider. Experience has shown that
B is more likely to take initiative, to set ambitious goals, and to feel that the
team can effectively influence its environment. Employee A tends to do
well on jobs that are routine, is plagued with self doubt, and feels that the
team is largely powerless over its environment. Which statement is
correct?
A) Employee A exhibits positive core self evaluation, and employee B
ex- hibits negative core self evaluation.
B) Employee A exhibits negative core self evaluation, and employee B
ex- hibits positive core self evaluation.
C) Employee A exhibits negative core self evaluation, and employee B
ex- hibits negative core self evaluation.
D) Employee A exhibits positive core self evaluation and employee B
exhibits positive core self evaluation. ANS B) Employee A exhibits
negative core self evalu- ation, and employee B exhibits positive core
self evaluation.
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- Employee B was upset by Employees A’s behavior at the department
planning meeting, Which factors will influence Employee B’s perception
in this situation?
A) Problem, Criteria, and Alternatives
B) Situation, target, and perceiver
C) Heredity, environment, perceiver
D) Stimulation, task, and skills ANS B) situation, target, and perceiver - A person is broadminded courageous and forgiving. Which of the
values are these?
A) Transitory values
B) Terminal values
C) Instrumental values
D) Determinate values ANS C) Instrumental Values - An employee enjoys having a large span of responsibility and is
motivated to do well because of personal feelings. Which kind of reward is
this?
A) Affiliation reward
B) Intrinsic reward
C) Compensatory reward
D) Extrinsic reward ANS B) Intrinsic reward - Manager A supervises 10 district units with 100 employees and
receives
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$100,000 in compensation. Manager B supervises 5 district units with 50
employees and also receives $100,000 in compensation. Manager A is upset
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WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2023
1.characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior. ANS personality
2.characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior in a large number
of situations ANS personality traits
- A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
ANS –
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
4.A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
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ANS Big Five Model
5.A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive
(confi- dent and forceful ) ANS extraversion
6.A personality that describes someone who is good natured,
cooperative, and trusting. ANS agreeableness
7.A personality that describes someone who is responsible,
dependable, persistent, and organized. ANS conscientiousness
8.A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident,
and insecure. ANS emotional stability
9.A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination,
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sensi- tivity, and curiosity. ANS openness to experience
10.Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities,
com- petence, and worth as a person. ANS core self-evaluation
11.The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains
emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. ANS
Machiavellianism
12.The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive
admira- tion, and have a sense of entitlement. ANS narcissism
13.where an individual’s has ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors. ANS self-monitoring
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14.People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and
per- severe until meaningful change occurs. ANS proactive personality
15.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. ANS values
16.A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual’s values in terms of
their intensity. ANS value system