Exam 2: Individual Behaviour, Personality, and Values

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A) high individualism.
B) low collectivism.
C) high power distance.
D) low uncertainty avoidance.
E) high individualism and low collectivism.

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A) Victor Vroom.
B) Carl Jung.
C) Sigmund Freud.
D) The "Big Five" personality trait model.
E) Milton Rokeach.

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A) the outcomes will provide the greatest good for the greatest number.
B) the behaviour violates any government laws.
C) people affected by the behaviour believe that it is fair.
D) All of the answers are correct.
E) the outcomes will provide the greatest good for the greatest number and the behaviour violates any government laws.

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A) stable evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences for outcome in a variety of situations.
B) beliefs about what is moral.
C) a person's beliefs about the amount of control they have over their actions.
D) an accounting concept imported into the field of organizational behaviour.
E) personality dimensions that stabilize up to at least the age of 30 and possibly to age 50.

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A) Social identity theory
B) Self- enhancement
C) Corporate identification theory
D) Disagreeableness trait
E) None of these

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A) Persistence
B) Direction
C) Intensity
D) Aptitude
E) Competencies

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A) personality.
B) values.
C) motivation.
D) locus of control.
E) job satisfaction.

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A) an employee and his or her spouse have similar values.
B) an organization's values are consistent with the dominant values of the culture in which it operates.
C) an employee's personal values are similar to the values of other employees on the same team.
D) an employee's personal values are consistent with the organization's values.
E) None of the answers apply.

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A) MBTIA
B) CANOE
C) VALUE
D) MARSE
E) HAPPY

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A) increasing employee motivation to be less wasteful.
B) helping employees to learn how to be less wasteful.
C) altering situational factors so that employees have more difficulty practising wasteful behaviour.
D) increasing aptitudes that make employees less wasteful.
E) increasing organizational citizenship so that employees will be less wasteful.

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A) Openness to new experiences.
B) Self-transcendence.
C) Locus of control.
D) Self-enhancement.
E) Narcissism

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A) People tend to rate themselves above average.
B) People tend to recall positive feedback while forgetting negative feedback.
C) We tend to attribute out successes to personal motivation or ability.
D) We blame the situation for our mistakes.
E) We empathize with others when they experience failure.

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A) someone keeps them mindful of those values.
B) those values conflict with the organization's values.
C) the values are abstract.
D) All of the answers are correct.
E) None of the answers apply.

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A) Employees are more likely to remember information that is consistent with their self- concept.
B) Employees are motivated to interact with others who affirm their self-concept.
C) The more confident employees are in their self-concept, the less they will accept positive or negative feedback.
D) Supervisors should avoid giving feedback that is inconsistent with their employees' self-concepts.
E) All the above are correct.

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