Exam 14: Dynamics of Behavior in Organizations

Teresa is highly imaginative and an artistically sensitive individual who displays a high degree of creativity. According to the Big Five personality factors, these qualities describe her openness to experience.

Mary is a talkative, assertive, and sociable individual who is very comfortable with interpersonal relationships. This describes which quality of Mary?

____________________ is a change in behavior or performance that occurs as the result of experience.

From attributions viewpoint, if the behavior is in consensus, the perceiver will probably respond to similar situations in the same way.

Attribution is the cognitive process people use to make sense out of the environment by selecting, organizing, and interpreting information.

Machiavellianism is the tendency to direct much on one's behavior toward the acquisition of power and the manipulation of other people for purely personal gain.

The tendency to direct much of one's behavior toward the acquisition of power and the manipulation of others for personal gain is called

A condition in which two attitudes or a behavior and an attitude conflict is called ______________________________.

Job satisfaction is work behavior that goes beyond job requirements and contributes as needed to the organization's success.

______________________________ is the tendency of perceivers to protect themselves against ideas, objects, or people that are threatening.

People generally experience __________ when their work matches their needs and interests, when working conditions and rewards (such as pay) are satisfactory, and when the employees like their co-workers.

Errors in perceptual judgment that arise from inaccuracies in any part of the perception process are called ______________________________.

People give themselves too much credit for what they do well and give external forces too much blame when they fail refers to the self-serving bias.

Describe the learning process and the four-stage cycle of learning.

People with an external locus of control are

Which of these refers to the set of characteristics that underlie a relatively stable pattern of behavior in response to ideas, objects, or people in the environment?

Which of these styles would likely be appropriate for a counseling job?

_________________________ means giving employees the freedom to vary their hours as needed.

A person with a converger learning style type is good at generating ideas and seeing a situation from multiple perspectives.

Organizational behavior is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to the study of how individuals and groups tend to act in organizations.