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Chapter 02
Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values
True / False Questions
- According to the MARS model of individual behavior and performance, employee performance will remain high even if one of the four factors is low in a given
situation.
True   False
- The MARS model identifies the four main factors that influence individual behavior: motivation, ability, role perceptions, and situational factors.
True   False
- Motivation is an external force on the person that causes him/her to engage in specific behaviors.
True   False
- Intensity refers to the fact that motivation is goal-directed, not random.
True   False
- The forces within a person affect the employee’s motivation.
True   False
- Aptitudes are natural talents that help individuals to learn specific tasks more quickly and perform them better than other people.
True   False
- Learned capabilities refer to the skills and knowledge that one has actually acquired.
True   False
- Competencies refer to the complete set of situational factors that contribute to job performance.
True   False
- Motivation, ability, and role perceptions are clustered outside the MARS model as they are external to the individual.
True   False
- Role perceptions are the extent to which people understand the job duties assigned to them.
True   False
- Situational factors are working conditions within the employee’s control.
True   False
- Task performance refers to goal-directed behaviors under the individual’s control that support organizational objectives.
True   False
- Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) include various forms of cooperation and helpfulness to others that support the organization’s social and psychological context.
True   False
- An employee creates unnecessary conflicts with his coworkers at his workplace.
This is an example of organizational citizenship behavior.
True   False
15.Personality is a relatively stable pattern of behaviors and internal states that explains a person’s behavioral tendencies.
True   False
- Personality traits are more evident in situations where an individual’s behavior is subject to social norms and reward systems.
True   False
- Personality is completely determined by heredity.
True   False
- The “Big Five” personality dimensions represent five clusters that represent most
personality traits.
True   False
- Phoebe, a manager at a firm, was conventional, resistant to change, and unimaginative. This implies that Phoebe possessed openness to experience.
True   False
20.Conscientiousness refers to the extent that people are sensitive, flexible, creative, and curious.
True   False
- People with a high score on the neuroticism personality dimension tend to be more relaxed, secure, and calm.
True   False
- Agreeableness, extraversion, and conscientiousness are three of the “Big Five” personality dimensions.
True   False
- Sensing, feeling, and judging are three of the “Big Five” personality traits.
True   False
- Conscientiousness is one of the best personality traits for predicting job performance in most job groups.
True   False
- Extraverts are people who are quiet, cautious, and less interactive with others.
True   False
26.According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, some people are “sensing-thinking” types whereas others may be “intuitive-feeling” types.
True   False
- The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator measures the personality traits described by
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung.
True   False
- People with a perceiving orientation are less flexible and effective in their functioning.
True   False
- Values are stable, evaluative beliefs about what is important in a variety of situations.
True   False
- People arrange values into a hierarchy of preferences, called a value system.
True   False
31.One dimension of Schwartz’s Values Circumplex has openness to change at one extreme and conservation at the other extreme.
True   False
- Our habitual behavior tends to be consistent with our values, but our everyday conscious decisions and actions apply our values much less consistently.
True   False
- Espoused values represent the values that are apparent in our actions.
True   False
- Person-organization values congruence occurs when a person’s values are similar to the organization’s dominant values.
True   False
- The ideal situation in organizations is to have employees whose values are perfectly congruent with the organization’s values.
True   False
36.Utilitarianism suggests that we should choose the option that provides the highest degree of satisfaction to those affected.
True   False
- Distributive justice is sometimes known as a consequential principle because it focuses on the consequences of our actions, not on how we achieve those consequences.
True   False
- One problem with applying the individual rights principle of ethical decision making is that one individual right may conflict with another.
True   False
- The distributive justice principle of ethical decision making advocates the principle that benefits should be distributed among people irrespective of their abilities and
similarities.
True   False
- Ethical sensitivity is the degree to which an issue demands the application of ethical principles.
True   False
41.Individualism and collectivism are mutually exclusive values found in certain countries and places.
True   False
- In terms of cross-cultural values, people in the United States tend to have relatively high individualism, middle to high achievement orientation, and medium to low power distance.
True   False
- People with high power distance expect relatively equal power sharing.
True   False
- People with high achievement orientation tend to value assertiveness, competitiveness, and materialism.
True   False
- One limitation with information about cross-cultural values is that it incorrectly assumes that everyone within a specific country holds similar values.
True   False
Multiple Choice Questions
- Which of the following directly influences an employee’s voluntary behavior and performance?
- Role perceptions
- Moral intensity
- Corporate social responsibility
- Uncertainty avoidance
- Income
- Which of the following identifies the four factors that directly influence individual behavior and performance?
- Utilitarianism
- MARS model
- Schwartz’s model
- Holland’s model
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
48.Which of the following are external to the individual but still affect his/her behavior
and performance?
- Motivations
- Role perceptions
- Situational factors
- Abilities
- Resolutions
- _____ represents the forces within a person that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behavior.
- Motivation
- Personality
- Values
- Ethics
- Ability
50.Motivation affects a person’s _____ of voluntary behavior.
- direction, intensity, and persistence
- antecedents, consequences, and reinforcers
- size, shape, and weight
- aptitudes, abilities, and competencies
- agreeableness, locus of control, and ethical sensitivity
- Which of the following refers to the fact that motivation is goal-directed, not random?
- Persistence
- Direction
- Intensity
- Aptitude
- Competencies
52.Which of the following best represents the amount of effort allocated to a particular goal?
- Persistence
- Direction
- Intensity
- Aptitude
- Competencies
- Which of the following refers to the natural talents that help employees learn specific tasks more quickly and perform them better?
- Persistence levels
- Direction
- Intensity
- Aptitude
- Commitment
54.Which element in the MARS model of behavior and performance is competencies
most closely related to?
- Motivation
- Situational factors
- Role perceptions
- Ability
- Emotions
- Which of the following concepts consists of aptitudes, skills, and competencies?
- Motivation
- Personality
- Values
- Ethics
- Ability
- Which of the following does ability include?
- Aptitudes and learned skills
- Natural aptitude and intensity
- Persistence and direction
- Intensity and learned capabilities
- Direction and intensity
57.All technical employees at a paper mill take a course on how to operate a new paper-rolling machine. This course will improve job performance mainly by altering employees’:
- organizational citizenship.
- learned capabilities.
- Which of the following actions ensure that selected candidates have appropriate aptitudes to perform the job?
- Hiring applicants with appropriate aptitudes
- Training employees so that they develop appropriate aptitudes
- Motivating employees to have appropriate aptitudes
- Providing resources that allow employees to perform their jobs
- Providing employees with the latest technology
59.Travel Happy Corp. gives simple accounts to newly hired employees, and then adds more challenging accounts as employees master the simple tasks. This practice mainly:
- improves role perceptions.
- increases person-job matching.
- reduces employee motivation.
- provides more resources to accomplish the assigned task.
- improves employee aptitudes.
- Which of the following refers to a person’s beliefs about what behaviors are appropriate or necessary in a particular situation?
- Natural aptitudes
- Role perceptions
- Competencies
- Locus of control
- Situational factors
