WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership Questions & Answers. Rated A+

WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership Questions & Answers. Rated A+ personality - -Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior Heredity - -Factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup personality traits - -Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior Big Five model - -A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions extroversion - -A Big Five personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive agreeableness - -A Big Five personality dimension that describes someone who is good-natured, cooperative, and trusting conscientiousness - -A Big Five personality dimension that describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized emotional stability - -A Big Five personality dimension that characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative) openness to experience - -A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity, and curiosity core self-evaluation - -Bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person Machiavellianism - -The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can justify means narcissism - -The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement self-monitoring - -A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors proactive personality - -People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs Other-orientation - -A personality trait that reflects the extent to which decisions are affected by social influences and concerns vs. our own well-being and outcomes 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 (content & intensity) value system - -A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity terminal values - -Desirable end-states of existence; the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime instrumental values - -Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values personality-job fit theory - -A theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover