BUAD 304 Midterm - USC Cummings Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
USC-CT - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Uncover problems, Select most critical problems,
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Create potential solutions, Choose solutions with most potential, Translate
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solutions into implementation plan | | |
Values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ideals that guide our thinking and behavior across
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all situations (especially at work), relatively stable across time and most
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situations
Where do values come from? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-parents, childhood
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experiences, spiritual beliefs, culture, age generation | | | | |
What determines success/failure in an organization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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How well self fits with the organization's values
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When hiring, how do organizations achieve fit? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-selection
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(assessment tests, interviews) and/or socialization (boot camps, training,
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coaching and counseling) | |
In order for you to be satisfied in a job, you should - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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actively seek a job that best fits you - be as selective as the company is, don't
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settle
,Schwartz's Value Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-2 sets of bipolar values (self-
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transcendence vs self enhancement, openness to change vs conservation) are
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what motivate our behavior across any context - values adjacent to each other on
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diagram are complementary, values across from each other are incongruent
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Self-transcendence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the concern for the welfare/interests | | | | | | |
of others (universalism, benevolence)
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Openness to change - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-self-directed independence
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(hedonism, stimulation, self-direction)
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Self-enhancement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the pursuit of one's own interests, | | | | | | | | |
dominance over others (hedonism, achievement)
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Conservation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-conformity, resistance to change
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(conformity, tradition, security) | |
Values in Action (VIA) Character Survey - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-determines the
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aspects of self that are morally valued
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Workplace attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-result from the interaction of
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various individual, group, and organizational processes - predictors of likely
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behavior - positive workplace attitudes (job satisfaction, organizational
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commitment) lead to positive workplace behaviors (productive behavior, high job
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performance)
, Cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the discomfort we experience
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when our attitudes conflict with each other or our behavior - humans are driven
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to reduce dissonance
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Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-stem from values and represent our feelings or
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opinions about people, places, and objects - guide our intent to behave, very
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difficult to change attitudes because they are "comfortable"
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How we reduce cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-change attitude
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and/or change behavior, but it is much easier to change an attitude than a
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behavior because you can self-justify your attitude
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Personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a combination of physical, behavioral, and
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mental traits that give us our unique identity, approx. 40% derived from genes
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and 60% determined by our environment, relatively stable over time and across
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situations
Which Big-5 category is the most important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-if you are
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high in conscientiousness you will be a more appealing candidate
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Example of cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-when people continue
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to smoke (behavior) even though they know it's bad for them (cognitive), they
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will self-justify and claim "It's not that bad" (attitude change)
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Emotional intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the ability to monitor your own
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emotions and those of others, understand them, and behave effectively - crucial
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to being a good leader, requires both personal and social competence
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Questions With Correct Answers
USC-CT - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Uncover problems, Select most critical problems,
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Create potential solutions, Choose solutions with most potential, Translate
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solutions into implementation plan | | |
Values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ideals that guide our thinking and behavior across
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all situations (especially at work), relatively stable across time and most
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situations
Where do values come from? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-parents, childhood
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experiences, spiritual beliefs, culture, age generation | | | | |
What determines success/failure in an organization? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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How well self fits with the organization's values
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When hiring, how do organizations achieve fit? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-selection
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(assessment tests, interviews) and/or socialization (boot camps, training,
| | | | | | | | |
coaching and counseling) | |
In order for you to be satisfied in a job, you should - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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actively seek a job that best fits you - be as selective as the company is, don't
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
settle
,Schwartz's Value Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-2 sets of bipolar values (self-
| | | | | | | | | |
transcendence vs self enhancement, openness to change vs conservation) are
| | | | | | | | | |
what motivate our behavior across any context - values adjacent to each other on
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
diagram are complementary, values across from each other are incongruent
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Self-transcendence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the concern for the welfare/interests | | | | | | |
of others (universalism, benevolence)
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Openness to change - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-self-directed independence
| | | | | | |
(hedonism, stimulation, self-direction)
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Self-enhancement - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the pursuit of one's own interests, | | | | | | | | |
dominance over others (hedonism, achievement)
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Conservation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-conformity, resistance to change
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(conformity, tradition, security) | |
Values in Action (VIA) Character Survey - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-determines the
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aspects of self that are morally valued
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Workplace attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-result from the interaction of
| | | | | | | | |
various individual, group, and organizational processes - predictors of likely
| | | | | | | | | |
behavior - positive workplace attitudes (job satisfaction, organizational
| | | | | | | |
commitment) lead to positive workplace behaviors (productive behavior, high job
| | | | | | | | | |
performance)
, Cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the discomfort we experience
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when our attitudes conflict with each other or our behavior - humans are driven
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
to reduce dissonance
| |
Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-stem from values and represent our feelings or
| | | | | | | | | |
opinions about people, places, and objects - guide our intent to behave, very
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
difficult to change attitudes because they are "comfortable"
| | | | | | |
How we reduce cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-change attitude
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and/or change behavior, but it is much easier to change an attitude than a
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behavior because you can self-justify your attitude
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Personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a combination of physical, behavioral, and
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mental traits that give us our unique identity, approx. 40% derived from genes
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
and 60% determined by our environment, relatively stable over time and across
| | | | | | | | | | | |
situations
Which Big-5 category is the most important? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-if you are
| | | | | | | | | | | |
high in conscientiousness you will be a more appealing candidate
| | | | | | | | |
Example of cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-when people continue
| | | | | | | | |
to smoke (behavior) even though they know it's bad for them (cognitive), they
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
will self-justify and claim "It's not that bad" (attitude change)
| | | | | | | | |
Emotional intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the ability to monitor your own
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emotions and those of others, understand them, and behave effectively - crucial
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to being a good leader, requires both personal and social competence
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