Organization Class: Chapter 5

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Personality:

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the dynamic organization within the individualof those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to hisenvironment.

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heredity

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Factors determined at conception;one’s biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup.

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personality traits

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Enduringcharacteristics that describe an individual’s behavior.

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The myers briggs type indicator(MBTI)

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a personality test that taps fourcharacteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types.

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The big five personality model:

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apersonality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.

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Agreeableness:

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anindividuals propensity to defer to others

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Conscientiousness

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measure of reliability

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core self-evaluation

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Bottom-lineconclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth asa person.

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Machiavellianism:

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the degree to which an individual ispragmatic, maintains emotion distance, and believes that ends can justify means

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Narcissism:

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tendencyto be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self importance.

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Self monitoring:

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measuresan individuals ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situationalfactors

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Values:

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basic convictions that a specific mode ofconduct or end state of existence is personally or socially

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Terminalvalues:

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desirableend states of existence, the goals a person would like to achieve during his orher lifetime.

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Instrumentalvalues:

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preferablemodes of behavior or means of achieving ones terminal values.

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Whichof the following statements is most likely to be true regarding people with proactivepersonalities?

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Morelikely than others to be seen as leaders

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Individualsscoring blank have a strong ability to adjust his or her behavior to external,situational factors and can behave differently in different situations.

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Highon self monitoring

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Blankis as important for mangers as for front line employees and among all big fivemodel traits is most consistently related to job performanc

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Conscientiousness

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Whatis the major problem with the MBTI as a measure of personality?

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Itforces a person to be categorized as either one type or another

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Whichof the following does the heredity approach state?

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Anindividuals personality is determined y molecular structure of the genes