Exam 1

Question 1

Intelligence

Answer 1

an individuals capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving

Question 2

Personality

Answer 2

the combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that give individuals their unique identities

Question 3

What are the Big 5 personality dimensions?

Answer 3

• Extraversion
• agreeableness
• conscientiousness
• emotional stability
• openness to experience

Question 4

What is extroversion?

Answer 4

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Question 5

Locus of Control

Answer 5

1. Internal: I have an effect on the outcome

2. External: The world is what effects the outcome

Question 6

Mentoring

Answer 6

the process of forming and maintaining intensive and lasting developmental relationships

Question 7

What is perception?

Answer 7

a cognitive process that enables us to interpret and understand our surroundings

Question 8

What is cognition?

Answer 8

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Question 9

What is human capital?

Answer 9

the productive potential of an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experiences

Question 10

What is social capital?

Answer 10

the productive potential resulting from relationships, goodwill, trust, and cooperative effort

Question 11

self efficacy

Answer 11

a person’s belief about his or her chances of successfully accomplishing a specific task

Question 12

self worth (esteem)

Answer 12

general belief about your own value (self-worth)

Question 13

proactive personality

Answer 13

exhibiting behavior that is relatively unconstrained by situational forces and who affects environmental change

Question 14

What is the contingency approach?

Answer 14

using OB concepts and tools as situationally appropriate, instead of trying to rely on one best way

Question 15

Knowing-doing gap

Answer 15

identifies the gap between what people know and what they actually do

Question 16

CSE (Core Self Evaluation)

Answer 16

a broad personality trait compromised of four narrower and positive individual traits

1. self efficacy
2. self-esteem
3. locus of control
4. emotional stability

Question 17

organizational climate

Answer 17

employees’ perceptions of formal and informal organizational policies, practices, procedures, and routines

Question 18

organizational culture

Answer 18

the set of shared, taken-for-granted implicit assumptions that a group holds and that determines how it perceives, thinks about, and reacts to its various environments

Question 19

vision

Answer 19

a long-term goal that describes what an organization wants to become.

Question 20

proactivity

Answer 20

exhibiting behavior that is relatively unconstrained by situational forces and who affects environmental change

Question 21

What are stereotypes?

Answer 21

an individual’s set of beliefs about the characteristics or attributes of a group