Exam 5: Personality and Values

You are the manager of a small boutique. You have decided to apply the Big Five Model in order to understand your employees and their work habits because it is generally supported by an impressive body of research. You want to use the five dimensions of personality to match individuals with jobs to which they are well-suited. -Jane Simpson rates low on conscientiousness. This would lead you to suspect that which of the following statements is most likely to be true about Jane?

Marina loves to visit a new country every year. Her hobbies are visiting museums, painting, traveling, and learning new languages. Which dimension of the Big Five model best describes Marina, according to her hobbies?

Discuss the importance of values.

You have decided to use Holland's Typology of Personality and Congruent Occupations to help your friends who are college seniors recognize which jobs they would be well-suited for. Monica is shy, stable, and persistent. Neil is ambitious and energetic and likes to dominate conversations. Jessica is idealistic, impractical, and very imaginative. Walter is efficient and practical, but he lacks imagination and tends to be inflexible. Chris is an original thinker, with an analytical and independent intelligence. -Who might be well-suited to being a lawyer?

Which of the following is not included in the Big Five model?

Zach gulps his food, is constantly spinning his pen in class, always walks quickly, gets bored with slow intellectual movies, and is annoyed that it's taking four and a half years to graduate from business school. Zach is probably ________.

Why are agreeable people usually less successful in their careers?

Briefly describe the Type B personality.

All of the following are classifications on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator except ________.

Each of the six personality types developed in Holland's personality-job fit theory has a ________.

Which dimension of the Big Five model is a measure of reliability?

What is the measure of the extent to which people in a country accept the fact that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally?

Discuss the Rokeach Value Survey. Include definitions and discussion of terminal values and instrumental values.

You are assembling a team to work on a long-term project which requires creativity, stamina, and formal thinking. The only piece of information available to you is the Myers-Briggs Type of each of the applicants. These results are shown below: -You need to choose a lead person for the team. This person must be a visionary; combining an original mind with great drive. Who would be the best candidate based on their Myers Briggs Type?

What cohort of workers in the U.S. is most loyal to their careers?

What is the main difference between Hofstede's cultural dimensions and the GLOBE framework?

Hubert wants to expand his import business to Malaysia. Knowing that Malaysia ranked higher than any other country in power distance in Hofstede's cultural values study, which of the following is most likely true about what Hubert will discover when visiting potential business partners?

What is the major problem with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator as a measure of personality?

A book that profiled 13 contemporary business people who created super successful firms including Apple Computer, FedEx, Honda Motors, Microsoft, and Sony found that all 13 were what type of thinkers?

Patrice has a small company that makes mustard. His local sales are low, and he wants to reach a wider, national clientele by getting on the Web, so he has placed an online ad for a Web designer and master. It is most likely that the majority of the job applicants will be from the ________ generation.