WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and
Leadership Exam
personality - ANSWER ✔ Enduring characteristics that describe an
individual's behavior
Heredity - ANSWER ✔ Factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup
personality traits - ANSWER ✔ Enduring characteristics that describe an
individual's behavior
Big Five model - ANSWER ✔ A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions
extroversion - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension describing
someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive
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,agreeableness - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension that
describes someone who is good-natured, cooperative, and trusting
conscientiousness - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension that
describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and
organized
emotional stability - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension that
characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus
nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative)
openness to experience - ANSWER ✔ A personality dimension 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
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,narcissism - ANSWER ✔ The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose
sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense
of entitlement
self-monitoring - ANSWER ✔ A personality trait that measures an
individual's 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
Other-orientation - ANSWER ✔ 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 - 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 (content & intensity)
value system - ANSWER ✔ A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity
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, 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
person-organization fit - ANSWER ✔ Argues that people are attracted to
and selected by organizations that match their values, and they leave
organizations that are not compatible with their personalities
power distance - ANSWER ✔ A national culture attribute that describes the
extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally
masculinity - ANSWER ✔ A national culture attribute that describes the
extent to which the culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
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Leadership Exam
personality - ANSWER ✔ Enduring characteristics that describe an
individual's behavior
Heredity - ANSWER ✔ Factors determined at conception; one's biological,
physiological, and inherent psychological makeup
personality traits - ANSWER ✔ Enduring characteristics that describe an
individual's behavior
Big Five model - ANSWER ✔ A personality assessment model that taps
five basic dimensions
extroversion - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension describing
someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive
pg. 1 WGU C484 Organizational Behavior and Leadership Exam@!!__
,agreeableness - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension that
describes someone who is good-natured, cooperative, and trusting
conscientiousness - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension that
describes someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and
organized
emotional stability - ANSWER ✔ A Big Five personality dimension that
characterizes someone as calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus
nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative)
openness to experience - ANSWER ✔ A personality dimension 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
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,narcissism - ANSWER ✔ The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose
sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense
of entitlement
self-monitoring - ANSWER ✔ A personality trait that measures an
individual's 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
Other-orientation - ANSWER ✔ 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 - 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 (content & intensity)
value system - ANSWER ✔ A hierarchy based on a ranking of an
individual's values in terms of their intensity
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, 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
person-organization fit - ANSWER ✔ Argues that people are attracted to
and selected by organizations that match their values, and they leave
organizations that are not compatible with their personalities
power distance - ANSWER ✔ A national culture attribute that describes the
extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and
organizations is distributed unequally
masculinity - ANSWER ✔ A national culture attribute that describes the
extent to which the culture favors traditional masculine work roles of
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