HRM 360 CSULB Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Organizational Behavior - ANSWERSThe study of the many factors that have an impact on how people & groups act, think, feel, and respond to work &organizations respond to their environments.
What skills must a manager develop? - ANSWERSConce...
Organizational Behavior - ANSWERSThe study of the many factors that have an impact on how people &
groups act, think, feel, and respond to work &organizations respond to their environments.
What skills must a manager develop? - ANSWERSConceptual, human, technical skills.
The ability to analyze and diagnose a situation & to distinguish cause and effect. - ANSWERSConceptual
skills
Human skills - ANSWERSThe ability to understand, work with, lead & control the behaviors of people or
groups.
Job-specific knowledge and techniques - ANSWERSTechnical skills
Personality - ANSWERSA pattern of relatively permanent traits, dispositions, or characteristics that give
some consistency to the way that people feel, think, and behave.
What is the Big Five Model of personality? - ANSWERSFive broad domains of personality that are used to
describe it. Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion
Extraversion - ANSWERSa personality trait that predisposes individuals to experience positive emotions
and feel good about themselves and the world around them.
Neuroticism - ANSWERSPeople's tendency to experience negative emotional states, feel distressed, and
generally view themselves and their surroundings.
Aggreeableness - ANSWERSThe trait that captures the distinction between individuals who get along well
with other people and those who don't.
, Conscientiousness - ANSWERSThe extent to which a person is careful, scrupulous, and persevering.
Openess to experience - ANSWERSThe extent to which an indv. is original, open to a wide variety of
stimuli, has broad interests & is willing to take risks as opposed to being narrow minded.
True/False: There are only five personality traits that exist in behavioral organization? - ANSWERSFalse,
there are over 4,000 different personality traits.
What has more of an impact, on the development of personality, nature or nurture? -
ANSWERSGenerally speaking, this is a 50/50 split. This is not to say that there aren't outliers who
disprove this. But there are so many factors that contribute that its difficult to have a definitive answer.
Typically, at what age is an individuals personality established by? - ANSWERSNormally, by your early
20's. This isn't to say that it can never be changed after this age. Often as people mature their
personality also changes.
What are some elements that can cause for personalities to change? - ANSWERS-Traumatic Experiences
-Physical damage to the brain
*Drugs and alcohol
-Psycho-Therapy
Personality can be unconscious and therefore hard to identify flaws in it. - ANSWERSOur brain is
constantly trying to save us from danger, so much so that it can blind someone from identifying bad
habits.
Locus of Control - ANSWERSThe degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome
of the events that happen in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control.
Internal locus of control - ANSWERSpeople who believe they control the events and consequences that
affect their lives.
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