1.

According to the Myers-Briggs type Indicator, people who are classified as

_____ are conceptualizers.
Your Answer: ENTPs

Correct!
2.
Which dimension of the Big Five model refers to an individual's propensity to
defer to others?
Your Answer: Openness to experience
Correct Answer: Agreeableness

See "The Big Five Personality Model" section
Agreeableness refers to an individual's propensity to defer to others. Highly
agreeable people are cooperative, warm, and trusting.
3.
Individuals with a positive _____ like themselves, see themselves as effective,
capable, and in control of their environment.
Your Answer: (blank)
4.
Individuals who are high in the _____ dimension of personality manipulate
more, win more, are persuaded less, and persuade others more.
Your Answer: Rokeach
Correct Answer: Machiavellianism

See "Other Personality Traits Relevant to OB" section
Individuals who are high in the Machiavellianism dimension of personality
manipulate more, win more, are persuaded less, and persuade others more. An
individual who is high in Machiavellianism is pragmatic, maintains emotional
distance, and believes that ends can justify means.
5.
According to Rokeach, _____ values refer to desirable end-states of existence.
Your Answer: aesthetic
Correct Answer: terminal

See "Terminal vs. Instrumental Values" section
Terminal values refer to desirable end states of existence. These are the goals
that a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime. The instrumental
values refer to preferable modes of behaviour, or means of achieving the
terminal values.
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6.
The most recent entrants to the workforce are _____.
Your Answer: Boomers
Correct Answer: Nexters

See "Generational Values" section
This generation, the Nexters, is very money-oriented and desirous of the things
that money can buy. They seek financial success. Like Xers, they enjoy
teamwork, but they're also highly self-reliant.
7.
Which of the following is NOT one of Hofstede's five dimensions of national
culture?
Your Answer: language proficiency

Correct!
8.
_____ is the degree to which people in a country prefer structured over
unstructured situations.
Your Answer: Individualism
Correct Answer: Uncertainty avoidance

See "Global Implications" section
Uncertainty avoidance is the degree to which people in a country prefer
structured over unstructured situations. In countries that score high on
uncertainty avoidance, people have an increased level of anxiety, which
manifests itself in greater nervousness, stress, and aggressiveness.
9.
John Holland argues that job satisfaction is highest and turnover lowest where
_____.
Your Answer: an individual is highly motivated
Correct Answer: personality and occupation are in agreement

See "Linking an Individual's Personality and Values to the Workplace" section
Holland's theory is based on the notion of fit between an individual's personality
characteristics and his or her occupational environment. Each of his six
personality types has a congruent occupational environment.
10.
If personality characteristics were completely dictated by heredity, they would
be fixed at birth and no amount of experience could alter them.
Your Answer: False
Correct Answer: True

See "What is Personality?" section
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Your Answer: False
Correct Answer: True

See "What is Personality?" section
11.
A substantial body of research supports the MBTI as a valid measure of
personality.
Your Answer: True
Correct Answer: False

See "The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator" section
12.
Extroverts tend to be reserved, timid, and quiet.
Your Answer: False

Correct!
13.
The opposite of emotional stability is neuroticism.
Your Answer: False
Correct Answer: True

See "The Big Five Personality Model" section
14.
Compared to introverts, extroverts tend to be happier in their jobs and lives as
a whole.
Your Answer: True

Correct!
15.
Terminal values are preferable modes of behaviour, or means of achieving one's
instrumental values.
Your Answer: True
Correct Answer: False

See "Terminal vs. Instrumental Values" section
16.
The lives of Xers have been shaped by globalization, MTV, AIDS, and computers.
Your Answer: True

Correct!
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Your Answer: True

Correct!
17.
The loyalty of Boomers is to their careers.
Your Answer: True

Correct!
18.
Organizations in a society low in uncertainty avoidance are likely to have more
formal rules.
Your Answer: False

Correct!
19.
Individuals with Holland's investigative personality are well suited for careers as
small business managers.
Your Answer: False

Correct!
20.
What are the major factors influencing personality?
Your Answer:
(blank)
21.
What is the difference between Type A and Type B personality?
Your Answer:
(blank)
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