Exam 3: Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: the Manager As a Person

The attraction-selection-attrition framework suggests that the founders of organizations tend to be attracted to and select employees _____.

Managers who are low on the conscientiousness continuum are organized and self-disciplined.

Rites of _____, such as shared announcements of organizational successes, office parties, and company cookouts, build and reinforce common bonds among organizational members.

People who are high on negative affectivity are especially likely to experience _____.

A manager's instrumental values have little or no effect on organizational culture.

What are the three major needs identified by McClelland? Describe the characteristics associated with each need.

Emily is seldom in a bad mood and is always optimistic about herself and others. It can be said that Emily is low on _____.

Effective managers need to have a high external locus of control.

The terminal and instrumental values that are guiding principles in an individual's life are referred to as attitudes.

Which of the following is true of emotions?

Tony is a manager with the ability to understand and gauge the moods and feelings of his employees with little difficulty. Tony displays high _____.

Which of the following is true of managers who are high on extraversion?

Which of the following is true of people with high self-esteem?

Which of the following is a terminal value?

People who are high on negative affectivity are capable of experiencing positive moods.

According to McClelland, the extent to which a person has a strong desire to control and to influence others is known as _____.

Managers who are high on the agreeableness continuum are likable and care about other people.

Jim has been employed at Fortis Services for nearly 15 years. Which of the following statements, if true, would imply that Jim is low on openness to experience?

When people belong to the same organization, they tend to share certain beliefs and values that lead them to act in similar ways. This is known as _____.

Introverts tend to be sociable, outgoing, and friendly.