Exam 4: Personality and Values

You have just been promoted to manage a sales group.Your group is made up of 10 people who range in age from 27 to 62.You have read that there are certain dominant work values for each age group and think that this may help you understand your group. The employees most likely to be loyal to their employer are the:

One's means of achieving their goals are considered by Rokeach as:

Unlike Hofstede,the GLOBE team national culture framework has added the ______ dimension.

Emotional stability is most strongly related to job satisfaction.

A comprehensive analysis of cultural variation has been done by:

The realistic personality from Holland's typology of personality and congruent occupations would be well suited for which of the following jobs?

Hofstede's research has found that,compared to Indian culture,American culture's power distance is greater.

Choose the word that best describes an ESTJ.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a 100-question personality test that classifies people into 16 personality types.

Pauline Wood is a new manager.She recognises that personality attributes can help to explain and predict employee behaviour. Pauline has an opening for a position that requires someone who can identify opportunities and show initiative to take action.She should identify the employee with ________ for a good fit.

What are the likely dominant work values of a 26-year-old employee?

Researchers have found that genetics account for about 50% of the personality similarities,and more than 30% of the similarities in occupational and leisure interests in studies of identical twins.

Achievement and material success rank high for Baby Boomers.

Globalisation,MTV,AIDS and computers have all heavily influenced the lives of Baby Boomers.

Pauline Wood is a new manager.She recognises that personality attributes can help to explain and predict employee behaviour. A new position requires an employee who can adjust behaviour to external situations as needed.She should identify the employee with a ________ for a good fit.

You have decided to use Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations to help your friends,who are university students,understand for which jobs they would be well-suited.Monica is shy,stable and persistent.Neil is ambitious and energetic,and likes to dominate conversations.Jessica is idealistic and impractical but very imaginative.Walter is efficient and practical,but he lacks imagination and tends to be inflexible. Which of your friends is most likely to find a successful career as a writer?

Describe how Rokeach organised terminal values and instrumental values.

Millennials tend to be obsessed with financial success.

Rokeach studied instrumental values and:

A person who believes that the end can justify the means can be said to have the characteristic of: