Organizational Behavior Exam 2 Practice
Questions and Answers
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.
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Answer✔️✔️-A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types.
Big Five Model - Answer✔️✔️-A personality assessment model that taps five
basic dimensions.
Extraversion - Answer✔️✔️-A personality dimension describing someone
who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive.
Agreeableness - Answer✔️✔️-A personality dimension that describes
someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
Conscientiousness - Answer✔️✔️-A personality dimension that describes
someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
Emotional Stability - Answer✔️✔️-A 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.
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.
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