Exam 3: Personality, Attitudes, and Work Behaviors

Personality is a modest predictor of actual job performance, but a much better predictor of:

Understanding someone's _____________ gives us clues about how that person is likely to act and feel in a variety of situations.

Having role ambiguity and experiencing conflicting role demands are related to higher job performance.

When scanning for important trends, a manager's perceptions color the information that is absorbed and processed.

Which one of the following Big Five personality traits is the only Big Five dimension where scoring high is undesirable?

Under the psychological contract, an employee may believe that if he or she works hard and receives favorable performance evaluations, he or she will receive an annual bonus.

Studies show that our personality does not have lasting consequences for us.

What makes stereotypes potentially discriminatory?

In jobs with high complexity, it is not critical to have high general mental ability ("g").

A factor biasing our perception is _____________.

Selective perception is particularly important during the:

The amount of stress present in a job is related to employee satisfaction and commitment.

_________ is a belief that one can perform a specific task successfully.

Teams that experience unforeseen changes in their tasks do well if they are populated with people high in:

Conscientiousness is the one personality trait that uniformly predicts:

___________ is the degree to which a person has overall positive feelings about him- or herself.

Companies can get more out of attitude surveys if responses are held ___________. Short

Employee preferences for job design and enrichment may be a function of individuals' personalities and ___________.

What kind of legal difficulties did Rent-A-Center encounter when using personality tests?

In order to effectively manage organizational behavior, it is helpful to have an understanding of different employees' personalities.