Exam 8: Foundations of Individual and Group Behavior

Discuss Holland's research on personality- job fit.

If the issues causing dissonance are of great importance, the individual will not be under great tension to reduce the dissonance.

__________is the degree to which people are poised, calm, resilient, and secure.

Which of the following is not a characteristic of highly committed and satisfied employees?

Application of Personality Traits and Predicting Work- Related Behaviors Talk about personalities! Samantha is sure she has one of everything in her very diverse workforce. Sometimes she wonders if her 20 employees have anything in common. Yesterday Jon came in complaining and blaming her for his poor performance evaluation. He seemed to forget the five differing times during the last six months he and Samantha had sat down and discussed the fact that his continual tardiness and absences were going to affect his evaluation. Then there was Joe, who was always Joe. He was a likable enough person, but he was always loud and outspoken and bordered on being rude. Even when the president of the company had been in the office last week, Joe was still the same Joe. Then there was Cassie who made daily the statement that the end justifies the means. Samantha, more than once, had to remind Cassie of the company code of ethics. Finally, though, there was Jennifer who quietly and efficiently did her work on a consistent basis. She was always ready for a new assignment and trusted that she had the abilities needed in order to succeed on the next project. For Samantha, she was a safety net in times of crisis. -Samantha is relatively poised, calm, resilient, and secure in the face of day- to- day stress. According to the "Big Five" personality traits, she is low on__________ .

Machiavellianism describes the degree to which people are poised, calm, resilient, and secure.

Adolph enjoys having and using power within his organization, even to the extent of manipulating others or lying to them. Adolph is__________ on the personality attribute,__________ .

Application of Personality Traits and Predicting Work- Related Behaviors Talk about personalities! Samantha is sure she has one of everything in her very diverse workforce. Sometimes she wonders if her 20 employees have anything in common. Yesterday Jon came in complaining and blaming her for his poor performance evaluation. He seemed to forget the five differing times during the last six months he and Samantha had sat down and discussed the fact that his continual tardiness and absences were going to affect his evaluation. Then there was Joe, who was always Joe. He was a likable enough person, but he was always loud and outspoken and bordered on being rude. Even when the president of the company had been in the office last week, Joe was still the same Joe. Then there was Cassie who made daily the statement that the end justifies the means. Samantha, more than once, had to remind Cassie of the company code of ethics. Finally, though, there was Jennifer who quietly and efficiently did her work on a consistent basis. She was always ready for a new assignment and trusted that she had the abilities needed in order to succeed on the next project. For Samantha, she was a safety net in times of crisis. -Cassie demonstrates which of the following?

A manager who experiments with new ideas, takes chances with new products, and leads his or her department to try new ways to solve problems has high__________ .

The goals of organizational behavior are to

Last month no one in the department met their sales goal with the new product. The cause is

Agreeableness is the Big- Five model factor that addresses the degree to which someone is imaginative, artistically sensitive, and intellectual.

The affective component of an attitude is the emotional, or feeling, segment of the attitude.

If the dissonance- producing behavior is required due to a supervisor's direct order over which the individual has little control, then the pressure to reduce the dissonance

Kathy joined the highly esteemed women's club in order to achieve the prestige that came from belonging to that group. This fulfilled which need?

Discuss the concept of perception.

If the rewards are high, even though the dissonance is high, the tension caused by the dissonance tends to

When we describe people in terms such as quiet, passive, loud, aggressive, ambitious, or loyal, we are addressing __________ .

__________Machiavellian people tend to be__________ and__________ .

James tells his brother, "I hate any class in Liberal Arts, and I can't wait to take more courses in business." James is expressing the affective component of his attitude toward his classes.