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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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16.value system: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual’s
values in terms of their intensity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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