Exam 3: Managing Diversity and Individual Differences

As opposed to simple personality inventories, _____________ can often provide more useful information about personality and interpersonal skills.

Openness to experience probably promotes learning and creativity.

Cognitive ability is just as important for simple jobs as complex ones.

In general, more extroverted salespeople perform the same as introverted ones.

Companies are increasingly relying on personality measures to select and place job candidates.

Selection and placement programs look at the __________________ of individuals.

In general, which of the following groups is most likely to perform well in a sales job?

Compared to Americans, Europeans are more likely to approach work and sports with a ____________ orientation.

To determine the importance of specific abilities to a particular job, one should ____________.

Generally, ability tests are much better than personality tests at predicting job performance.

The trait which is predictive of adaptability to new and different situations is:

Physical abilities would be needed most frequently in which of the following type of jobs?

A key dimension of individual differences, which will be of increasing importance to organizations of the future, that has not been studied extensively (although measures of it have been developed) is:

Explain the topic of physical abilities, and describe the utility of physical ability testing for hiring people.

If a person is secure and content, he/she is probably ____________.

Conscientiousness predicts trustworthiness and honesty but not job performance.

Spatial visualization does not contribute to mechanical skills.

For which of the following jobs is quantitative ability likely to be most important?

To retain minority workers, companies can ____________.

What can organizations do to retain the services of employees of minority groups? Why is it important that organizations adopt these practices?