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