Chapter 4

Question 1

___ can be formally defined as a given person’s characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

Personality ___, or long-lasting patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that deviate from relevant cultural expectations.

Answer 2

Personality Disorders

Question 3

Personality ___, which are a person’s typical ways of thinking, behaving, and feeling.

Answer 3

Traits

Question 4

1) __ are transient or ephemeral, whereas 2) __ endure over time.

Answer 4

1) States
2) Traits

Question 5

___-__ fit theory argues that organizations and individuals have specific personality traits, and when organizations’ employees share their traits, the organization is more productive and employees are more satisfied.

Answer 5

Personaility-Job

Question 6

Match between a worker’s abilities, needs, and values and organizational demands, rewards, and values.

What is this?

Answer 6

Personality-job fit theory or person-environment (P-E) fit

Question 7

This type of worker prefers verbal activities and yearns for power.

Answer 7

Enterprising

Question 8

Employees prefer physical activities that require coordination.

Answer 8

Realistic

Question 9

Employees enjoy analyzing and organizing and are naturally curious and independent.

Answer 9

Investagation

Question 10

These employees enjoy helping and mentoring others.

Answer 10

Social

Question 11

Employees enjoy regulation, order, and rules.

Answer 11

Conventional

Question 12

This peronalty type prefers creativity and likes to use their imagination.

Answer 12

Artistic

Question 13

___ is a relatively stable set of characteristics that influence an individual’s behavior.

Answer 13

Personality

Question 14

Personality traits can be segregated into five different sectors called the __ __ Personality Model.

Answer 14

Big Five

Question 15

What is an acronym for the five different personailty traits?

Answer 15

OCEAN

Question 16

This trait involves people who are creative, curious and cultured.

Answer 16

Openess to Experience

Question 17

This means someone is hardworking, organized and dependable.

Answer 17

Conscientiousness.

Question 18

This means that he is gregarious, assertive and sociable.

Answer 18

Extraversion

Question 19

This trait is cooperative, warm and agreeable.

Answer 19

Agreeableness

Question 20

Ned can be moody, anxious and jealous. His personality trait is one of ___.

Answer 20

Neuroticsim

Question 21

Carl ___, a Swiss psychiatrist, felt that the population was based on two personality types: extraverted and introverted

Answer 21

Carl Jung

Question 22

___-___ Type Indicator Instrument (MBTI) is used in the business world for career counseling, developing management styles, team building and conflict management.

Answer 22

Myers-Briggs

Question 23

This scale shows how employees perceive or gather information.

Answer 23

Sensing/Intuition

Question 24

This scale explains how employees make decisions.

Answer 24

Thinking/Feeling

Question 25

This scale explains how an employee views the world.

Answer 25

Judging/Percieving

Question 26

A 1) ___ type employee prefers to make decisions in a very objective and logical way. An 2) ___ employee who is feeling uses personal values to come up with a decision.

Answer 26

1) Thinking
2) Feeling

Question 27

A 1) __ worker prefers organization and closure. A 2) ___ employee enjoys flexibility and likes to consider all options.

Answer 27

1) Judging
2) Perceiving

Question 28

___, often abbreviated Mach, is a personality trait that is characterized with the use of manipulation to achieve power.

Answer 28

Machiavellianism

Question 29

The continuum of this scale spans from being highly manipulative to being highly submissive.

Answer 29

Mach Scale

Question 30

__ Machs are those who would be considered highly manipulative, not easily persuaded, but persuade others more than low Machs, successful in reaching their goals and tend to win more.

Answer 30

High Machs

Question 31

__ Machs are on the opposite side of the Mach spectrum and are characterized as being highly submissive. Those individuals with a __ Mach orientation are willing to accept direction imposed on them and thrive in highly structured situations.

Answer 31

Low Mach

Question 32

___ is an all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy.

Answer 32

Narcissim