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MGMT 330 - Organizational BehaviorExam 3 Study Guide
What determines our individual characteristics? In other words, is personality and ability determined by
our genes, our environment, or some combination of both? - correct answer ✔✔Our personality and
ability is a combination of both our environment and genetics.
What percentage of our personality is determined by our genetics? - correct answer ✔✔35-49%
What percentage of our ability us determined by our genetics? - correct answer ✔✔60%
What are different taxonomies for classifying an individual's personality? - correct answer ✔✔The Big
FIVE
The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory
Holland's RIASEC model
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory - correct answer ✔✔A popular, unreliable and invalid personality test that
does not separate good from bad performers.
Use for team building rather than selection or promotion purposes.
Holland's RIASEC Model - correct answer ✔✔realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising,
conventional Model.
Use only to guide people into career fields.
, The BIG Five - correct answer ✔✔A taxonomy of five personality traits: Conscientiousness,
Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, and Etraversion.
It reliably predicts personality traits and validly predicts many job outcomes.
Best for making selection and promotion decisions.
Which two Big Five Traits predict task performance across nearly all jobs? - correct answer
✔✔Conscientiousness and Neuroticism
What type of jobs does the trait Agreeableness predict task performance? - correct answer ✔✔Service
Jobs
What type of jobs does the trait Extraversion predict task performance? - correct answer ✔✔Sales jobs
and leadership roles.
What type of jobs does the trait Openness predict task performance? - correct answer ✔✔Predicting of
adapting jobs or jobs where on the job learning is critical.
How does the strength of the situation impact the degree to which personality predicts task
performance? - correct answer ✔✔Weak (ambiguous job description) then personality is a high degree
predictor of performance.
Strong (Clear job direction) then personality is a low degree predictor of job performance.
Proactive measures to alleviate faking on personality test? - correct answer ✔✔Use force choice
inventories between two desirable options.
Use conditional reasoning.
Warn applicants not to fake
Require Applicants to elaborate on their responses.
Reactive measures to alleviate faking on personality test? - correct answer ✔✔Measure response time
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