Exam 2: Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values

Senior executives at CyberForm must make a decision that will affect many people,and where the decision may produce good or bad consequences for those affected.This decision:

Our habitual behaviours tend to be consistent with our values,but our everyday conscious decisions and actions apply our values much less consistently.

Explain why you agree or disagree with the following statement: Hiring and keeping talented employees is the most important task for managers.

In the section on cross-cultural values,the authors warn that:

Aptitudes are natural talents that help individuals learn specific tasks more quickly and perform them better than other people.

According to the MARS model,ability is the most important force influencing individual behaviour and results.

People with a high _____________ value assertiveness,competitiveness,and materialism.

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 employee:

One problem with the utilitarian principle of ethics is that:

Moral intensity is higher when:

Espoused-enacted values congruence occurs when:

Ethics is most closely related to:

Organizational citizenship is less likely to occur in an work environment where high cooperation already exists.

Which of the following countries generally has high achievement orientation values?

The relatively stable pattern of behaviours and consistent internal states that explain a person's behavioural tendencies refers to

Situational factors are working conditions within the employee's control.

People who have high ethical sensitivity:

Most large and medium-sized organizations in Canada have developed and communicate ethical codes of conduct.

Organizational citizenship behaviours are usually described clearly in job descriptions.

Learned capabilities refer to the skills and knowledge that you have actually acquired.