WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership Correct 100%
personality - ANSWER Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
Heredity - ANSWER Factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup
personality traits - ANSWER Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
Big Five model - ANSWER A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions
extroversion - ANSWER A Big Five personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive
agreeableness - ANSWER A Big Five personality dimension that describes someone who is good-natured, cooperative, and trusting
conscientiousness - ANSWER A Big Five personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized
emotional stability - ANSWER A Big Five personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative)
openness to experience - ANSWER A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity
core self-evaluation - ANSWER Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person
Machiavellianism - ANSWER The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means
narcissism - ANSWER The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-
importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement
self-monitoring - ANSWER A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors proactive personality - ANSWER People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs
Other-orientation - ANSWER A personality trait that reflects the extent to which decisions are affected by social influences and concerns vs. our own well-being and outcomes
values - ANSWER 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 (content & intensity)
value system - ANSWER A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity
terminal values - ANSWER Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would
like to achieve during his or her lifetime
instrumental values - ANSWER Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values
personality-job fit theory - ANSWER A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines
satisfaction and turnover
person-organization fit - ANSWER Argues that people are attracted to and selected by organizations that match their values, and they leave organizations that are not compatible with their personalities
power distance - ANSWER A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally
masculinity - ANSWER A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which the
culture favors traditional masculine work roles of achievement, power, and control. Societal values are characterized by assertiveness and materialism.
femininity - ANSWER A national culture attribute that indicates little differentiation between male and female roles; a high rating indicates that women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
uncertainty avoidance - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER A national culture attribute that emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence
short-term orientation - ANSWER A national culture attribute that emphasizes the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations
perception - ANSWER A process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment
perceiver, situation, target - ANSWER The factors in these three areas influence perception
attribution theory - ANSWER An attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused
internally caused - ANSWER Behaviors are those we believe to be under the personal control of the individual
externally caused - ANSWER Behaviors that we imagine the situation forced the individual to do
Distinctiveness - ANSWER Term for whether an individual displays different behaviors in different situations
consensus - ANSWER Term for when everyone who faces a similar situation responds/behaves in the same way
consistency - ANSWER Term for when a person responds/behaves the same way over time
fundamental attribution error - ANSWER 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 - ANSWER The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors
selective perception - ANSWER The tendency to selectively interpret what one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes
halo effect - ANSWER The tendency to draw a general impression about an individual on the basis of a single characteristic
contrast effect - ANSWER 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
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