C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership - Key Terms, Questions and answers. VERIFIED.

C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership - Key Terms, Questions and answers. VERIFIED. PERSONALITY - -Gordon Allport said personality is "the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment" Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values HEREDITY - -factors determined at conception. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR - -the most widely used personality assessment in the world. Includes scales on introversion/extroversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling and judging/perceiving. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values THE BIG FIVE PERSONALITY MODEL - -personality typing instrument which includes extraversion, agreeableness, Conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values MACHIAVELLIANISM - -(Mach) the degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes the end justifies the means. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values NARCISSISM - -the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values SELF-MONITORING - -a personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values PROACTIVE PERSONALITY - -people identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values VALUES - -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. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values TERMINAL VALUES - -desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values INSTRUMENTAL VALUES - -preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values POWER DISTANCE - -a national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts That power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally. Competency 1 - Chapter 5, Personality and Values *PERCEPTION - -a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. COMPETENCY 1 - CHAPTER 6, Perception and Individual Decision Making *ATTRIBUTION THEORY - -an attempt to determine whether an individual's behavior is internally or externally caused. COMPETENCY 1 - CHAPTER 6, Perception and Individual Decision Making *FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR - -the tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors and overestimate the influence of internal factors when making judgments about the behavior of others. COMPETENCY 1 - CHAPTER 6, Perception and Individual Decision Making *SELF-SERVING BIAS - -the tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors and put the blame for failures on external factors. COMPETENCY 1 - CHAPTER 6, Perception and Individual Decision Making *SELECTIVE PERCEPTION - -the tendency to selectively interpret what one sees On the basis of one's interests, background, experience and attitude. COMPETENCY 1 - CHAPTER 6, Perception and Individual Decision Making