Deck 4: Personality and Values

Question 1

Which of the following is not included in the Big Five model?

A)conscientiousness
B)gregariousness
C)emotional stability
D)agreeableness

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is a personality determinant?

Answer 2

C

Question 3

'Personality' looks at the parts of the person rather than the aggregate whole.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Researchers have found that genetics account for about 50 percent of the personality differences,and more than 30 percent of the variation in occupational and leisure interests in studies of identical twins.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

List and describe heredity as a determinant of personality.

Question 6

Choose the word that best describes an ESTJ.

A)quiet
B)organiser
C)domineering
D)reserved

Question 7

The Myers-Briggs type Indicator is a 100-question personality test that classifies people into 16 personality types.

Question 8

If you were looking for an employee who was an organiser,you would probably choose one whose type is INTJ.

Question 9

INTJs are visionaries.

Question 10

A substantial body of research supports the observation that MBTI should be used as an effective selection test for job candidates.

Question 11

What is the Myers-Briggs type Indicator (MBTI)and how might it be used by managers?

Question 12

A book profiling 13 contemporary businesspeople who created super-successful firms found that all of these individuals were intuitive thinkers (NTs).

Question 13

The ENTP type is a conceptualiser.

Question 14

If personality characteristics were completely dictated by heredity,they would be fixed at birth and no amount of experience could alter them.

Question 15

The Myers-Briggs type Indicator examines all of the following except:

A)intelligent/challenged
B)perceiving/judging
C)sensing/intuitive
D)extroverted/introverted

Question 16

According to the Myers-Briggs type Indicator,________ are conceptualisers.

A)ESTJs
B)ENTPs
C)INTJs
D)MBTIs

Question 17

Which of the following personality-shaping forces is a hereditary factor?

A)Protestant ethic
B)culture
C)experience
D)parents' height

Question 18

Which dimension of the Big Five model refers to an individual's propensity to defer to others?

A)agreeableness
B)extraversion
C)emotional stability
D)openness to experience

Question 19

Personality is:

A)comprised of traits that cannot be measured
B)the growth and development of a person's whole psychological system
C)always stable
D)all of the above

Question 20

ESTJ types are innovative and individualistic.

Question 21

'Personality' is the sum total of the way in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.

Question 22

Low self-monitors:

A)tend to pay less attention to the behaviour of others than high self-monitors
B)tend to be more mobile in their careers
C)can disguise themselves well
D)have a low behavioural consistency between who they are and what they do

Question 23

Employees who score higher in extroversion develop higher levels of job knowledge.

Question 24

How do the Big Five traits influence OB? What is the relevance of each,and what does each trait affect?

Question 25

An individual high in Machiavellianism is best described as:

A)maintaining emotional distance,being highly authoritative,believing in swift discipline
B)being pragmatic,maintaining emotional distance,and believing the end can justify the means
C)being impulsive,emotionally involved,and having strong ethical beliefs
D)tending to make a poor manager

Question 26

How would you describe an individual who is capable of presenting striking contradictions between who they are in public and who they are privately?

A)low self-monitoring
B)high narcissism
C)high self-monitoring
D)low core self-evaluating

Question 27

Identify the five key traits in the Big Five personality model.

Question 28

A personality attribute that has potential for predicting behaviour in organisations is:

A)self-monitoring
B)type A personality
C)Machiavellianism
D)all of the above

Question 29

If a person's core self-evaluation is too positive,it may lead to:

A)high levels of competence
B)high levels of Machiavellianism
C)overconfidence and infallibility
D)extraversion and self-confidence

Question 30

Considering the Big Five model,what does openness affect?

A)Training performance
B)Deviant behaviour
C)Greater longevity
D)Higher job & life satisfaction

Question 31

An individual who is aggressively involved in a chronic,incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time is a:

A)type AB
B)type A
C)type B
D)extrovert

Question 32

Extroversion and conscientiousness can both lead to enhanced leadership.

Question 33

Considering the Big Five model,what does extraversion affect?

A)Training performance
B)Deviant behaviour
C)Greater longevity
D)Higher job & life satisfaction

Question 34

A person who believes that the end can justify the means can be said to have the characteristic of:

A)authoritarianism
B)external locus of control
C)Machiavellianism
D)risk-taking

Question 35

High Machs:

A)win more
B)are persuaded less
C)manipulate more
D)all of the above

Question 36

________ is the degree to which people like or dislike themselves.

A)Core self-evaluation
B)Authoritarianism
C)Machiavellianism
D)Locus of control

Question 37

Emotional stability is most strongly related to job satisfaction.

Question 38

An impressive body of research supports that five basic personality dimensions underlie all others.

Question 39

'Conscientiousness' refers to an individual's propensity to defer to others.

Question 40

Discuss the "Big Five" model of personality.

Question 41

Which dimension of the Big Five model is a measure of reliability?

A)openness to experience
B)extraversion
C)conscientiousness
D)agreeableness

Question 42

Describe the proactive personality and how it influences a person's work.

Question 43

Zack is always moving and is impatient.He prefers work to leisure and seems obsessed with numbers.Zack probably has a proactive personality.

Question 44

The evidence demonstrates that decision accuracy is the same for high and low risk-taking managers.

Question 45

All of the following are characteristics of the Proactive personality except which?

A)They show initiative.
B)They are likely to voice their displeasure when situations aren't to their liking.
C)They are faster workers.
D)They select,create and influence work situations in their favour.

Question 46

Low self-monitors are more capable of conforming than are high self-monitors.

Question 47

An individual with a Machiavellianism personality is pragmatic and believes that the end can justify the means.

Question 48

People with negative core self-evaluation perform better than others because they set more ambitious goals and persist longer in attempting to reach those goals.

Question 49

A majority of Generation Y people can be classified as Narcissistic.

Question 50

Which of the following is not a characteristic of the high risk-taking manager?

A)makes rapid decisions
B)requires less information for decision-making
C)takes chances in business decisions
D)creates a life of deadlines

Question 51

Low risk-taking managers make more rapid decisions.

Question 52

Individuals with type A personalities create opportunities to improve their current circumstances,and if they can't they will create new ones.

Question 53

People with core self-evaluations see themselves as effective,capable and in control of their environment.

Question 54

One study found that while narcissists thought they were better leaders than their colleagues,their supervisors actually rated them as worse.

Question 55

'Self-monitoring' is the trait that considers the degree to which a person likes or dislikes himself.

Question 56

'Self-monitoring' refers to an individual's ability to adjust his or her behaviour to external,situational factors.

Question 57

________ are seemingly self-important,like to be admired and have a sense of entitlement.

A)Type A personalities
B)Self-monitors
C)Type B personalities
D)Narcissists

Question 58

A type A personality would be most likely to:

A)concentrate on only one task at a time
B)be unnecessarily competitive
C)be easygoing
D)enjoy leisure and quiet time

Question 59

Which of the following is true of the type A personality?

A)They can play for fun and relaxation,rather than to exhibit superiority
B)They always seem to be pressured by a lack of time
C)They create positive change in their environment
D)They engage in career planning and demonstrate persistence in the face of career obstacles

Question 60

Type A personalities are never concerned with time.

Question 61

Overall evidence is that employees with positive core self-evaluations are more committed to their goals and persist longer in attempting to reach these goals.

Question 62

Instrumental values refer to preferable modes of behaviour,or means of achieving one's terminal values.

Question 63

Values have little influence on one's attitudes and perceptions.

Question 64

________ represent basic convictions that "a specific mode of conduct or end state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or a converse mode of conduct".

A)Values
B)Preferences
C)Convictions
D)Attitudes

Question 65

Milton Rokeach developed a survey that assesses terminal and instrumental values.

Question 66

According to Rokeach,________ values refer to desirable end-states of existence.

A)terminal
B)theoretical
C)instrumental
D)aesthetic

Question 67

Frederick and Weber compiled a list of values that are held by different organisational groups (executives,union members and activists).Which of the following groups ranked "honest" as the highest instrumental value?

A)union members and activists
B)existentials
C)executives and activists
D)executives and union members

Question 68

Studies confirm that the values in the Rokeach Values Survey vary between occupational groups.

Question 69

Values tend to be:

A)relatively fluid
B)synonymous with attitudes
C)flexible
D)fairly stable over time

Question 70

Personality has both content and intensity attributes.

Question 71

The content attribute states a value is:

A)a basic conviction
B)important
C)related to behaviour
D)complete

Question 72

One's means of achieving their goals are considered by Rokeach as:

A)Terminal instruments
B)Goal values
C)Instrumental values
D)Terminal values

Question 73

Values tend to be stable and enduring.

Question 74

The content attribute of a value says that a mode of conduct is important.

Question 75

When we rank an individual's values in terms of his/her intensity,we obtain that person's value system.

Question 76

Discuss the importance of values.

Question 77

Discuss the Rokeach Value Survey,including the definitions and a discussion of terminal values and instrumental values.

Question 78

Values are fluid and flexible.

Question 79

When we rank an individual's values in terms of his/her ________,we obtain the person's value system.

A)social acceptance
B)content
C)intensity
D)context

Question 80

Rokeach studied instrumental values and:

A)terminal values
B)attitudes
C)speed of decision making
D)ethical decision making