Organizational Behaviour Chapter 2

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  • 1. 
    The forces within a person that affect their direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behaviour.
    • A. 

      Ability

    • B. 

      Personality

    • C. 

      Motivation

    • D. 

      Competencies

    • E. 

      Extroversion

  • 2. 
    The natural aptitudes and learned capabilities required to successfully complete a task.
    • A. 

      Ability

    • B. 

      Competencies

    • C. 

      Power distance

    • D. 

      Motivation

    • E. 

      Personality

  • 3. 
    Skills, knowledge, aptitudes, and other personal characteristics that lead to superior performance.
    • A. 

      Role perception

    • B. 

      Competencies

    • C. 

      Ability

    • D. 

      Personality

    • E. 

      Motivation

  • 4. 
    The accuracy of how people understand their job duties assigned to them or expected of them.
    • A. 

      Aptitudes

    • B. 

      Motivation

    • C. 

      Role perceptions

    • D. 

      Competencies

    • E. 

      Ability

  • 5. 
    The natural talents that help employees learn specific tasks more quickly and perform them better.
    • A. 

      Role perceptions

    • B. 

      Ability

    • C. 

      Aptitudes

    • D. 

      Motivation

    • E. 

      Competencies

  • 6. 
    Time, people, budget, and physical work facilities - conditions beyond the employee's immediate control that constrain or facilitate behaviour and performance.
    • A. 

      Neuroticism

    • B. 

      Role perceptions

    • C. 

      Situational factors

    • D. 

      Power distance

    • E. 

      Aptitudes

  • 7. 
    The relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind these characteristics.
    • A. 

      Motivation

    • B. 

      Extroversion

    • C. 

      Personality

    • D. 

      Openness to change

    • E. 

      Situational factors

  • 8. 
    What determines an individual's personality. Thirty percent of temperament preferences can be attributed to a person's genetic characteristics. Also influenced by the person's socialization, life experiences, and other forms of interaction with the environment. As self-concept becomes clearer and more stable with age, behaviour and personality therefore become more stable.
    • A. 

      Five-factor model

    • B. 

      Situational factors

    • C. 

      Conscientousness

    • D. 

      Nature versus nurture

    • E. 

      Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

  • 9. 
    The abstract dimensions representing most personality traits; conscientiousnes, agreeableness, openness to experience, neuroticism, and extroversion.
    • A. 

      Power distance

    • B. 

      Situational factors

    • C. 

      Five-factor model

    • D. 

      Nature versus nurture

    • E. 

      Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

  • 10. 
    A personality dimension describing people who are careful, dependable, and self-disciplined.
    • A. 

      Neuroticism

    • B. 

      Extroversion

    • C. 

      Agreeableness

    • D. 

      Openness to experience

    • E. 

      Conscientiousness

  • 11. 
    A personality dimension describing people with high levels of anxiety, hostility, depression, and self-conciousness.
    • A. 

      Extroversion

    • B. 

      Conscientiousness

    • C. 

      Agreeableness

    • D. 

      Openness to experience

    • E. 

      Neuroticism

  • 12. 
    The extent to which people are imaginative, creative, curious, and aesthetically sensitive.
    • A. 

      Openness to experience

    • B. 

      Neuroticism

    • C. 

      Conscientiousness

    • D. 

      Extroversion

    • E. 

      Agreeableness

  • 13. 
    A personality dimension describing people who are courteous, good-natured, empathic, and caring.
    • A. 

      Extroversion

    • B. 

      Agreeableness

    • C. 

      Conscientiousness

    • D. 

      Neuroticism

    • E. 

      Openness to experience

  • 14. 
    A personality dimension describing people who are outgoing, talkative, sociable, and assertive.
    • A. 

      Openness to experience

    • B. 

      Agreeable

    • C. 

      Conscientnousness

    • D. 

      Extroversion

    • E. 

      Neuroticism

  • 15. 
    Swiss psychatrist Carl Jung proposed that personality is primarily represented by the individual's preferences regarding perceiving and judging information.
    • A. 

      Nature versus nurture

    • B. 

      Five-factor model

    • C. 

      Personality

    • D. 

      Achievement-nurturing orientation

    • E. 

      Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

  • 16. 
    Involves perceiving information directly through the five senses. It relies on an organized structure to acquire factual and preferably quantitative details.
    • A. 

      Judging

    • B. 

      Intuition

    • C. 

      Thinking

    • D. 

      Feeling

    • E. 

      Sensing

  • 17. 
    Relies on insight and subjective experience to see relationships among people.
    • A. 

      Thinking

    • B. 

      Perceiving

    • C. 

      Judging

    • D. 

      Sensing

    • E. 

      Intuition

  • 18. 
    Relies on rational cause-effect logic and systematic data to make decisions.
    • A. 

      Thinking

    • B. 

      Intuition

    • C. 

      Perceiving

    • D. 

      Feeling

    • E. 

      Sensing

  • 19. 
    Relies on emotional responses to the options presented, as well as to how those choices affect others.
    • A. 

      Intuition

    • B. 

      Judging

    • C. 

      Feeling

    • D. 

      Thinking

    • E. 

      Perceiving

  • 20. 
    People that are open, curious, flexible, prefer to adapt spontaneously to events as they unfold, and prefer to keep their options open.
    • A. 

      Thinking

    • B. 

      Perceiving

    • C. 

      Intuition

    • D. 

      Sensing

    • E. 

      Judging

  • 21. 
    People that prefer order and structure, and want to resolve problems quickly.
    • A. 

      Intuition

    • B. 

      Thinking

    • C. 

      Judging

    • D. 

      Perceiving

    • E. 

      Feeling

  • 22. 
    An individual's self-beliefs and self-evaluations. How a person feels about themselves, and guides their decisions and actions. The three concepts are complexity, consistency, and clarity.
    • A. 

      Self-evaluation

    • B. 

      Self-concept

    • C. 

      Self-efficacy

    • D. 

      Self-verification

    • E. 

      Self-enhancement

  • 23. 
    When we are inherently motivated to promote and protect a self-view of being competent, attractive, lucky, ethical, or valued. How much a person is motivated by self-interest. Includes the pursuit of success (achievement) and dominance over others (power).
    • A. 

      Self-efficacy

    • B. 

      Self-verification

    • C. 

      Self-concept

    • D. 

      Self-evaluation

    • E. 

      Self-enhancement

  • 24. 
    When people are motivated to ensure and maintain their existing self-concept which provides an important anchor to guide our thoughts and actions.
    • A. 

      Self-esteem

    • B. 

      Self-enhancement

    • C. 

      Self-verification

    • D. 

      Self-efficacy

    • E. 

      Locus of control

  • 25. 
    When people strive to have a positive self-concept. The three concepts are self-esteem, self-efficacy, and locus of control.
    • A. 

      Self-evaluation

    • B. 

      Role perceptions

    • C. 

      Self-verication

    • D. 

      Personality

    • E. 

      Self-enhancement

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