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Environmental scanning is a:

Planning process

Job design and enrichment is an aspect of:

Organizing process

When engaging in job design or enrichment, a manager should consider:

Personality in relation to work behavior

Teams that experience unforeseen changes in their tasks do well if they are populated with people high in:

Openness

Conscientiousness is the one personality trait that uniformly predicts:

How highly performance oriented a person will be

People with which of the following trait may be effective leaders because they create a fair environment:

Agreeableness

Which one of the following Big Five personality traits is also referred to as “negative affect”?

Neuroticism

The best trait that predicts a person’s work performance is:

Conscientiousness

Personality does not change over long periods oftime
True False

There are only five traits that explainvariations in our personalities.
True False

Using self-report measures of performance may bethe best way of measuring someone’s personality.
True False

Selective perception is particularly important during the

Planning process

Biased visual perception may not necessarilylead to the wrong inferences about the people and objects around us.
True False

The type of bias people have depends on theirpersonality.
True False

Stereotypes are generalizations based on anindividual characteristic.
True False

At work, two job attitudes that have the greatest potential to influence how      we behave are:

Job satisfaction and job commitment

Organizational justice can be classified into three categories:

Procedural, distributive and interactional

Exit interviews are often conducted by:

Human resources representative

Rather than to actual behaviors, attitudes are more strongly related to:

Intentions

Organizational commitment is the unemotionalattachment people have toward the company they work for.
True False

Personality and values play lesser roles in howemployees feel about their jobs than other job characteristics.
True False

Under the psychological contract, an employeemay believe that if he or she works hard and receives favorable performanceevaluations, he or she will receive an annual bonus.
True False

The amount of stress present in a job is relatedto employee satisfaction and commitment
True False

Research shows that fitting in with a companyculture is a strong predictor of job performance.
True False

Personality is a modest predictor of actual job performance, but a much better predictor of:

Companies may deal with work/balance reasons for absences by giving employees all of the following EXCEPT:

In jobs with high complexity, it is not criticalto have high “g”.
True False

Age is not necessarily related to the frequencywith which we demonstrate citizenship behaviors
True False

Research reveals a consistent link betweenpersonality and absenteeism
True False