Topic 08 (2): Individual Behavior, Personality, and Values

What are the three components of employee motivation according to the MARS Model of Individual Behavior?

• Emotions & attitudes, Stress, Role perceptions

• Motivation, Ability, Role perceptions

• Direction, Intensity, Persistence

• Situational factors, Personality, Values

What are the aptitudes and learned capabilities required to successfully complete a task called?

• Traits apparent across situations

• Values

• Personality traits

• Competencies

What is the term for the understanding of the job duties expected of us?

• Task performance

• Role perceptions

• Organizational citizenship

• Role clarity

What are the environmental conditions beyond the individual’s short-term control that constrain or facilitate behavior called?

• Constraints

• Emotions & attitudes

• Cues

• Situational factors

What are the goal-directed behaviors under the individual’s control that support organizational objectives called?

• Counterproductive work behaviors

• Organizational citizenship

• Employee Motivation

• Task performance

What is the relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize a person called?

• Defining Personality

• Traits apparent across situations

• Personality traits

• External traits and internal states

What explains about 50 percent of behavioral tendencies and 30 percent of temperament?

• Socialization

• Minnesota studies

• Learning

• Heredity

Which personality trait is linked to higher creativity and adaptability to change?

• Neuroticism

• Conscientiousness

• Agreeableness

• Openness to Experience

What are the preferences for perceiving the environment and obtaining/processing information called according to Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung?

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

• Jungian & Myers-Briggs Types

• Sensing (S) and Intuitive (N)

• Thinking (T) and Feeling (F)

What are stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences called?

• Value system

• Schwartz’s Values Model

• Individual Rights

• Utilitarianism