WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions

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WGU C715 Organizational Behavior Questions and Answers with Complete Solutions personality ✔✔characteristics that describe an individual's behavior. personality traits ✔✔characteristics th... at describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) ✔✔A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior Big Five Model ✔✔A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. extraversion ✔✔A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive (confident and forceful ) agreeableness ✔✔A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting. conscientiousness ✔✔A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized. emotional stability ✔✔A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure. openness to experience ✔✔A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity. core self-evaluation ✔✔Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person. Machiavellianism ✔✔The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means. narcissism ✔✔The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. self-monitoring ✔✔where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. proactive personality ✔✔People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. values ✔✔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. value system ✔✔A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. terminal values ✔✔Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime. instrumental values ✔✔Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. 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. power distance ✔✔where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. individualism ✔✔where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. collectivism ✔✔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. masculinity ✔✔where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control. femininity ✔✔indicates little differentiation between male and female roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society. uncertainty avoidance ✔✔A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society feels threatened by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them. long-term orientation ✔✔A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence. short-term orientation ✔✔A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people value the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments as impediments to change. heredity ✔✔factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup. Perception ✔✔A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. attribution theory ✔✔An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused. fundamental attribution error ✔✔The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others. self-serving bias ✔✔The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors. selective perception ✔✔The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes. halo effect ✔✔The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic. contrast effect ✔✔Evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered who rank higher or lower on the same characteristics. stereotyping ✔✔Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person belongs. self-fulfilling prophecy ✔✔A situation in which a person inaccurately perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second person to behave in ways consistent with the original perception. decisions ✔✔Choices made from among two or more alternatives. problem ✔✔A discrepancy between the cu [Show More]

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