WGU C715 EXAM TEST BANK 300+ QS &
ANS ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
LATEST 2023-2024 (VERIFIED
ANSWERS)AGRADE
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
What are the dominate frameworks for identifying and classifying traits? –
ANSWER- 1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- 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…
- Job performance assessment and selection for best candidate
OR - 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). – ANSWERemotional 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. – ANSWERpower 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