WGU C715 Organizational Behavior (Recent Exam) with 250+ Questions and Correct Answers (Latest Version)
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WGU C715 Organizational Behavior (Recent Exam) with 250+ Questions and Correct Answers (Latest Version)
characteristics that describe an individual's behavior. ------- Correct Answers ------- personality
characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations --...
WGU C715 Organizational Behavior (Recent
Exam) with 250+ Questions and Correct
Answers (Latest Version)
characteristics that describe an individual's behavior. ------- Correct Answers -------
personality
characteristics that describe an individual's behavior in a large number of situations
------- Correct Answers ------- personality traits
A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior ------- Correct
Answers ------- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions. extraversion,
agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. ------- Correct Answers
------- Big Five Model
A personality describing someone who is sociable and assertive (confident and
forceful ) ------- Correct Answers ------- extraversion
A personality that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
------- Correct Answers ------- agreeableness
A personality that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and
organized. ------- Correct Answers ------- conscientiousness
A personality that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, and insecure. -------
Correct Answers ------- emotional stability
A personality that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and
curiosity. ------- Correct Answers ------- openness to experience
Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and
worth as a person. ------- Correct Answers ------- core self-evaluation
The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. ------- Correct Answers ------- Machiavellianism
The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a
sense of entitlement. ------- Correct Answers ------- narcissism
where an individual's has ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational
factors. ------- Correct Answers ------- self-monitoring
,People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. ------- Correct Answers ------- proactive personality
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. ------- Correct Answers ------- values
A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity. -------
Correct Answers ------- value system
Values that we work towards (happiness, self-respect, family security, recognition) -------
Correct Answers ------- terminal values
Core values that are permanent in nature (honesty, sincerity, ambition, independence)
------- Correct Answers ------- instrumental values
A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between
personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.
------- Correct Answers ------- personality Job-fit theory
where society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed
unequally. ------- Correct Answers ------- power distance
where people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. -------
Correct Answers ------- individualism
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.
------- Correct Answers ------- collectivism
where culture favors traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and
control. ------- Correct Answers ------- masculinity
indicates little differentiation between male and female roles; where women are treated
as the equals of men in all aspects of the society. ------- Correct Answers -------
femininity
A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society feels threatened
by uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to avoid them. ------- Correct Answers
------- uncertainty avoidance
A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence. -------
Correct Answers ------- long-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. ------- Correct
Answers ------- short-term orientation
factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent
psychological makeup. ------- Correct Answers ------- heredity
A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order
to give meaning to their environment. ------- Correct Answers ------- Perception
An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally
caused. ------- Correct Answers ------- attribution theory
The tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the
influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others. -------
Correct Answers ------- fundamental attribution error
The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put
the blame for failures on external factors. ------- Correct Answers ------- self-serving bias
The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests,
background, experience, and attitudes. ------- Correct Answers ------- selective
perception
The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single
characteristic. ------- Correct Answers ------- halo 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.
------- Correct Answers ------- contrast effect
Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of the group to which that person
belongs. ------- Correct Answers ------- stereotyping
Causing something to happen by believing it will come true. ------- Correct Answers
------- self-fulfilling prophecy
Choices made from among two or more alternatives. ------- Correct Answers -------
decisions
A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and some desired state. -------
Correct Answers ------- problem
Characterized by making consistent, value-maximizing choices within specified
constraints. ------- Correct Answers ------- rational
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