MGMT 3350-110-Chapter 3. Questions and Answers

MGMT 3350-110-Chapter 3. Questions and Answers 1. Organizations should use selection based on attitudes and emotions to choose which employees to hire. FALSE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Understand Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 03-01 Describe the benefits of understanding the relative stability of individual differences. Learning Objective: 03-02 Explain how multiple intelligences affect your performance. Feedback: Many effective managers select employees based on positive, job relevant, but relatively stable individual differences. Intelligence and mental abilities are relatively fixed. By contrast, attitudes and emotions are relatively flexible. See Figure 3.2. 2. Alana has a capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. She exhibits intelligence. TRUE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 03-02 Explain how multiple intelligences affect your performance. Feedback: Intelligence represents an individual’s capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. Naturalist intelligence is the capacity to live in harmony with one’s environment. 3. Practical intelligence is very similar to logical-mathematical intelligence. FALSE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Understand Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 03-02 Explain how multiple intelligences affect your performance. Topic: Big Five Model Feedback: Practical intelligence is the ability to solve everyday problems by utilizing knowledge gained from experience in order to purposefully adapt to, shape, and select environments. It thus involves changing oneself to suit the environment (adaptation), changing the environment to suit one’s needs or desires (shaping), or finding a new environment within which to work (selection). Logical-mathematical intelligence is the potential for deductive reasoning, problem analysis, and mathematical calculation. 4. Benny has the ability to learn and use spoken and written languages. He shows linguistic intelligence. TRUE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 03-02 Explain how multiple intelligences affect your performance. Topic: Big Five Model Feedback: According to Table 3.1, Gardner’s Eight Intelligences, linguistic intelligence is the potential to learn and use spoken and written languages. 5. The combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that give individuals their unique identities is known as personality. TRUE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 03-02 Explain how multiple intelligences affect your performance. Learning Objective: 03-03 Illustrate the ways in which personality can affect school and work performance. Feedback: Personality is defined as the combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that give individuals their unique identities. 6. When hiring people, the best thing a manager can do is to find someone like himself or herself and make sure the person “fits” into his or her stereotype of a good worker. FALSE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Understand Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 03-03 Illustrate the ways in which personality can affect school and work performance. Feedback: While “liking” and “fit” matter, these general and evaluative types of descriptions aren’t very useful from a management standpoint. 7. Many effective managers select employees based on positive, job relevant, relatively stable individual differences. TRUE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 03-01 Describe the benefits of understanding the relative stability of individual differences. Feedback: Many effective managers select employees based on positive, job relevant, but relatively stable individual differences. 8. Personality models are unique to the cultures in which they were developed. TRUE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 03-03 Illustrate the ways in which personality can affect school and work performance. Topic: Big Five Model Feedback: Cross-cultural research evidence shows personality models are not unique to the culture in which they were developed. The Big Five personality structure held up very well in a study of women and men from Russia, Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, Germany, and Finland. A comprehensive analysis of Big Five studies revealed: “To date, there is no compelling evidence that culture affects personality structure.” 9. Openness to experience refers to a person being trusting and good-natured. FALSE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 1 Easy Learning Objective: 03-03 Illustrate the ways in which personality can affect school and work performance. Topic: Big Five Model Feedback: According to Table 3.2, someone scoring high on openness to experience would be intellectual, imaginative, curious, and broad-minded. 10. CSEs are related to reduced conflict and lower stress. TRUE AACSB: Knowledge Application Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Remember Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 03-04 Describe the impact of self-evaluations on work performance. Feedback: Core self-evaluations are related to reduced conflict and lower stress. 11. Carl has a high self-efficacy belief. He is not likely to work hard in preparation for challenges because he is confident he can succeed. FALSE AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Understand Difficulty: 2 Medium Learning Objective: 03-04 Describe the impact of self-evaluations on work performance. Topic: Self-Efficacy Feedback: If you have high self-efficacy you will work harder, more creatively, and longer. 12. Dawn is a manager at a big box store. One of her employees, Edward, appears to have low self-efficacy. To help him, Dawn should set a very challenging sales goal. FALSE AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation Blooms: Understand Difficulty: 3 Hard Learning Objective: 03-04 Describe the impact of self-evaluations on work performance. Topic: Self-Efficacy Feedback: According to Table 3.5, goal difficulty needs to ma