chapter 3 quiz

________ is the personality trait with the strongest positive relationship with job performance.

Conscientiousness

________ is the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

Emotional intelligence

Which of the following statements about emotions is false?

Felt emotions are always displayed.

________ is the combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that gives individuals their unique identity.

Personality

Jennifer wins an art contest. She attributes the outcome to luck. Jennifer is likely to have

an external locus of control.

People with ________ see themselves as masters of their own fate.

an internal locus of control

Which of the following is not one of the basic dimensions of the Big Five personality dimensions?

emotional intelligence

Besides leading to increases in job performance, job satisfaction, and affective commitment, proactive personality is also linked to intentions to be a(an)

entrepreneur.

Characterized as an assessment of how confident you are in your own abilities, which CSE trait can be improved via job design, self-management, and creativity?

generalized self-efficacy

People with an internal locus of control

have stronger expectations that effort leads to performance.

Individual-level work outcomes include all except

job attitude.

Katherine does especially well in her language courses, but struggles in chemistry. She has ________ intelligence.

linguistic

Samantha, a member of a team you are assigned to for a management class, has often been late getting her work to the team, and when it arrives it is often of poor quality. Samantha is likely to rank ________ dimension.

low on the conscientiousness

Rebecca has discovered that she is very good at creating 3D objects and has decided to change her major to engineering product design. She has ________ intelligence.

spatial

The combination of stable physical, behavioral, and mental characteristics that give individuals their unique identities is known as personality.

true