MGT 430 2023

Presenteeism is more common among employees with sick-leave pay

• Low job security

• Low centrality

• Financial buffers

• High job security

Assisting coworkers with their work problems, adjusting work schedules to accommodate coworkers, and showing genuine courtesy toward coworkers are forms of

• Role perception

• Task performance

• Job matching

• Organizational citizenship

Which of the following refers to motivation being goal-directed, not random?

• Persistence

• Intensity

• Direction

• Competencies

Based on the Big Five, employees who are trusting, helpful, and considerate are

• Neurotic

• Agreeable

• Open to experience.

• Extraverted

Our personality is determined chiefly by our socialization (upbringing) rather than our genetic origins.

• True

• False

Phyllis, a manager at a firm, is conventional, resistant to change, and unimaginative. This implies that Phyllis has a high openness to experiencing personality

• False

• True

Openness to experience refers to the extent to which people are imaginative, creative, unconventional, curious, nonconforming, autonomous, and aesthetically perceptive.

Personality traits are more evident when an individual's behavior is subject to social norms and reward systems.

• True

• False

People are sensitive to social norms, reward systems, and other external conditions. People vary their behavior to suit the situation, even if the behavior is at odds with their personality.

To improve work-life integration through “boundary setting,” some companies prohibit work-related communication after the regular workday.

• True

• False

Some organizations adopt structured boundary management through rules prohibiting work-related communication (except in extreme emergencies) after the regular work day.

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

All four factors in the MARS model are critical influences on an individual's voluntary behavior and performance; if one is low in a given situation, the employee would perform the task poorly.

An employee creates unnecessary conflicts with his coworkers at his workplace, and this is an example of organizational citizenship behavior.

• False

• True