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WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR FINAL EXAM LATEST UPDATE 2024 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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WGU C715 ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR FINAL EXAMLATEST UPDATE 2024 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
Big Five Model - (correct answer) A personality assessment model that taps five
basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and
neuroticism.
personality - (correct answer) characteristics that describe an individual's behavior.
personality traits - (correct answer) characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - (correct answer) A personality test that taps
four characteristics and classifies Behavior
extraversion - (correct answer) A personality describing someone who is sociable
and assertive (confident and forceful )
agreeableness - (correct answer) A personality that describes someone who is good
natured, cooperative, and trusting.
conscientiousness - (correct answer) A personality that describes someone who is
responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
emotional stability - (correct answer) A personality that characterizes someone as
calm, self-confident, and insecure.
openness to experience - (correct answer) A personality that characterizes
someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity.
core self-evaluation - (correct answer) Bottom-line conclusions individuals have
about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person.
Machiavellianism - (correct answer) The degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
narcissism - (correct answer) The tendency to be arrogant, self-importance, require
excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
self-monitoring - (correct answer) where an individual's has ability to adjust his or
her behavior to external, situational factors.
proactive personality - (correct answer) People who identify opportunities, show
initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
,values - (correct 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.
value system - (correct answer) A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's
values in terms of their intensity.
terminal values - (correct answer) Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a
person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
instrumental values - (correct answer) Preferable modes of behavior or means of
achieving one's terminal values.
personality Job-fit theory - (correct answer) A theory that identifies six personality
types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment
determines satisfaction and turnover.
power distance - (correct answer) where society accepts that power in institutions
and organizations is distributed unequally.
individualism - (correct answer) where people prefer to act as individuals rather than
as members of groups.
collectivism - (correct answer) A national culture attribute that describes a tight
social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to
look after them and protect them.
masculinity - (correct answer) where culture favors traditional masculine work roles
of achievement, power, and control.
femininity - (correct answer) indicates little differentiation between male and female
roles; where women are treated as the equals of men in all aspects of the society.
uncertainty avoidance - (correct 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 - (correct answer) A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the future, thrift, and persistence.
short-term orientation - (correct answer) A national culture attribute that emphasizes
the past and present, respect for tradition, and fulfillment of social obligations. people
value the here and now; they accept change more readily and don't see commitments
as impediments to change.
, heredity - (correct answer) factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
Perception - (correct answer) A process by which individuals organize and interpret
their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment.
attribution theory - (correct answer) An attempt to determine whether an individual's
behavior is internally or externally caused.
fundamental attribution error - (correct 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 - (correct answer) The tendency for individuals to attribute their
own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors.
selective perception - (correct answer) The tendency to selectively interpret what
one sees on the basis of one's interests, background, experience, and attitudes.
halo effect - (correct answer) The tendency to draw a general impression about an
individual on the basis of a single characteristic.
contrast effect - (correct 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.
stereotyping - (correct answer) Judging someone on the basis of one's perception of
the group to which that person belongs.
self-fulfilling prophecy - (correct answer) A situation in which a person inaccurately
perceives a second person, and the resulting expectations cause the second person to
behave in ways consistent with the original perception.
decisions - (correct answer) Choices made from among two or more alternatives.
problem - (correct answer) A discrepancy between the current state of affairs and
some desired state.
rational - (correct answer) Characterized by making consistent, value-maximizing
choices within specified constraints.
rational decision-making model - (correct answer) A decision-making model that
describes how individuals should behave in order to maximize some outcome.
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