ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 18TH
EDITION ROBBINS TEST BANK
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
⩥ personality traits. Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
⩥ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Answer: A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
⩥ Big Five Model. Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
⩥ extraversion. Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
⩥ agreeableness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who is
good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
⩥ conscientiousness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,⩥ emotional stability. Answer: A personality that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
⩥ openness to experience. Answer: A personality 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, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
⩥ self-monitoring. Answer: where an individual's has 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.
⩥ value system. Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
⩥ terminal values. Answer: Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a
person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
⩥ instrumental values. Answer: Preferable modes of behavior or means
of achieving one's terminal values.
⩥ personality Job-fit theory. 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. Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
⩥ individualism. Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
, ⩥ collectivism. 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. Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work
roles of achievement, power, and control.
⩥ femininity. 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. 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. Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
⩥ short-term orientation. 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. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
EDITION ROBBINS TEST BANK
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
⩥ personality traits. Answer: characteristics that describe an individual's
behavior in a large number of situations
⩥ Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Answer: A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies Behavior
⩥ Big Five Model. Answer: A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions. extraversion, agreeableness, openness,
conscientiousness, and neuroticism.
⩥ extraversion. Answer: A personality describing someone who is
sociable and assertive (confident and forceful )
⩥ agreeableness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who is
good natured, cooperative, and trusting.
⩥ conscientiousness. Answer: A personality that describes someone who
is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
,⩥ emotional stability. Answer: A personality that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, and insecure.
⩥ openness to experience. Answer: A personality 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, self-importance,
require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
⩥ self-monitoring. Answer: where an individual's has 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.
⩥ value system. Answer: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity.
⩥ terminal values. Answer: Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a
person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
⩥ instrumental values. Answer: Preferable modes of behavior or means
of achieving one's terminal values.
⩥ personality Job-fit theory. 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. Answer: where society accepts that power in
institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
⩥ individualism. Answer: where people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups.
, ⩥ collectivism. 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. Answer: where culture favors traditional masculine work
roles of achievement, power, and control.
⩥ femininity. 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. 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. Answer: A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift, and persistence.
⩥ short-term orientation. 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. Answer: factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.
