Exam 3: Understanding Individual Differences: Part B

In the Teams Competency: Why Personality is Important at Starbucks,the organization looks to hire people who do not show anxiousness or hostility to others even under stressful conditions.Therefore,they are looking to hire people with high:

Strong organizational commitment is characterized by all of the following except:

In terms of the effects of group membership on personality development,which of the following groups probably has the strongest influence on an individual's personality development?

Which of the following statements related to the cultural value of individualism is false?

All of the following family situations are important sources of personality differences,except:

The extent to which people rely on social norms,procedures,and organizations (including government)to avoid ambiguity,unpredictability,and risk,is known as

Managers who are hopeful do all of the following except:

Identify and briefly describe what is meant by the "Big Five" personality factors.

What did the self-assessment in your textbook Assessing Your Personality Using the Big Five reveal to you about your personality? Do you agree with this assessment or not? Why or why not?

Which of the following statements related to the cultural value of collectivism is false?

Which of the following statements about culture as a source of personality differences is false?

Managers can create positive emotions in their organizations through all of the following except:

Ricki enjoys the pursuit of challenging goals and pursues them with a positive attitude.It is likely that Ricki is high on:

Dr.Xu is developing a personality profile to be used as one of several screening devices in the hiring of research scientists for Texas Instruments.In order to maximize the probability of measuring personality dimensions that would be related to appropriate differences in the job performance of research scientists (which primarily involves unconventional insights and creative problem solving),Dr.Xu should probably include traits on the test that measure the personality factor of:

Which of the following is one of the "Big Five" personality factors that can summarize an individual's personality?

Charles manages a department that includes about a dozen computer programmers.Over the past year,he has noticed that turnover among his programmers has increased by 75%.This has proven puzzling to him,since the performance of the department and all of its programmers has consistently been very high.During informal discussions with some of the remaining programmers,Charles has determined that the programmers who have been leaving have not complained about pay,relationships with coworkers or supervisors,or working conditions.In fact,they have said that they were generally happy with what they were doing.On the other hand,they have been concerned with the company's failure to adopt the latest technological advances in hardware and software that would allow them to maintain their programming skills at the cutting edge.Most of the workers who have left have gone to work for companies that are using the latest technology.In this organization,the increased turnover appears to be the result of problems in the area of:

Carl is comfortable talking with others and speaking up in a group.It is likely that Carl is high on:

The link between personality and specific behaviors often is most clear when focus is on:

Explain what is meant by personality.Why is no single definition of personality is universally accepted?

Emotions refer to ____: