Organizational Behavior Exam 2 Graded A+
1. Personality: Enduring traits that define an individual's behavior.
2. Heredity: Genetic factors established at conception that influence an individual’s biological,
physiological, and psychological characteristics.
3. Personality Traits: Endur...
1. Personality: Enduring traits that define an individual's behavior.
2. Heredity: Genetic factors established at conception that influence an individual’s biological,
physiological, and psychological characteristics.
3. Personality Traits: Enduring characteristics that depict an individual’s behavior.
4. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): A testing tool that evaluates four personality dimensions to
categorize individuals into one of sixteen personality types.
5. Big Five Model: A personality assessment framework that encompasses five fundamental dimensions.
6. Extraversion: A personality trait indicating someone who is sociable, friendly, and assertive.
7. Agreeableness: A personality characteristic that refers to a person who is kind, cooperative, and
trusting.
8. Conscientiousness: A personality trait depicting a person who is responsible, reliable, persistent, and
organized.
9. Emotional Stability: A personality dimension that describes someone as calm, confident, and secure
(positive) versus anxious, depressed, and insecure (negative).
10. Openness to Experience: A personality trait characterized by imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
11. Core Self-Evaluation: Fundamental judgments individuals hold about their abilities, competence, and
self-worth.
, 12. Machiavellianism: The extent to which a person is pragmatic, emotionally detached, and believes
that outcomes can justify the means used to achieve them.
13. Narcissism: A personality trait involving arrogance, an inflated sense of self-importance, a need for
excessive admiration, and a feeling of entitlement.
14. Self-Monitoring: A personality characteristic that assesses an individual's ability to adapt their
behavior based on external circumstances.
15. Proactive Personality: Individuals who anticipate opportunities, demonstrate initiative, take action,
and persist until significant change occurs.
16. Values: Fundamental beliefs that dictate preferences for certain behaviors or end-states over others.
17. Value System: A hierarchy that ranks one's values according to their importance and intensity.
18. Terminal Values: Desirable life goals that individuals aspire to achieve throughout their lives.
19. Instrumental Values: Preferred methods of behavior or means of achieving terminal values.
20. Personality-Job Fit Theory: A theory proposing that job satisfaction and turnover rates are influenced
by the compatibility between an individual’s personality type and the work environment.
21. Power Distance: A cultural attribute that reflects how a society accepts the unequal distribution of
power in institutions and organizations.
22. Individualism: A cultural attribute indicating the degree to which individuals prefer to operate
autonomously rather than as members of a group.
23. Collectivism: A cultural attribute that reflects a social structure where individuals expect mutual
support and protection from their groups.
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