WGU - C715 Organizational Behavior - Essay Questions

Briefly describe the five key traits in the Big Five personality model. - Answer- Openness - how comfortable to experience new things Extraversion - how comfortable to move with others Conscientiousness - how dependable and responsible Agreeableness - how easy to come to a resolution Neuroticism - Typically emotional people Describe conscientiousness and explain how it can predict behavior at work. - Answer- It describes how dependable someone at work. Discuss John Holland's personality-job fit theory. - Answer- Describes personality profiles which matches different types of jobs. 1. Realistic - require physical activities and strength. Eg: mechanic 2. Investigative - prefer activities with anlytics eg: mathematician 3. Social - prefer activities which perform with others eg: teacher 4. Conventional -prefer regulated and unambiguous activities. eg: acountant 5. Enterprising - prefer to influence others. eg:lawyer, real estate agent 6. Artistic - prefer unambiguous and creative expression eg: writer Describe the five value dimensions of national culture as identified by the Hofstede's framework for assessing cultures. - Answer- 1 Power Distance: how people like unequal power distribution 2 Individualism: People prefer to work in groups of individually 3 Masculinity vs feminity: dominating women or not 4 Uncertainty avoidance 5 Long term vs short term Discuss the attribution theory. - Answer- An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused. What is selective perception? - Answer- The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes. What is bounded rationality? How is it related to decision making? - Answer- Process of making decisions without considering complexity. Eg. Buying a card by only considering its basic features What is an anchoring