Organizational Behavior Test 3

What is CSR? What is your view on CSR? Can it be utilized as a competitive advantage for company success?

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a type of international private business self-regulation that aims to contribute to societal goals of a philanthropic, activist, or charitable nature or by engage in or support volunteering or ethically-oriented practices.

What is ability, and where do individual differences in ability come from?

Relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities. Genes and the environment

What are ethics

moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

What is emotional intelligence?

The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically

How does trust affect job performance and organizational commitment?

Trust has a moderate positive affect on job performance.

In what three sources is trust rooted? Or in other words, what dimensions can be used to describe how trustworthy an authority is?

Ability, Benevolence, Integrity

What steps can organizations take to become more trustworthy?

Become socially responsible

Is personality driven by nature or by nurture? How can we tell?

Both

How does personality affect job performance and organizational commitment?

Conscientiousness has a great affect of job performance, and organizational commitment. People who our conscientious will go the extra mile for their job.

What are the "Big Five?"

Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, extraversion.

How does cognitive ability affect job performance and organizational commitment?

Generally, cognitive ability has a strong positive affect of job performance. However the correlation is stronger with jobs that have a high complexity, and lower for jobs that have less than average complexity.

What are Hofstede's dimensions of cultural values?

Hofstede's dimensions of personality differ from the Big Five in that they are: based on cultural personality traits rather than an individual's. The office of one of your professors is extremely neat and tidy. All the books are carefully arranged on the shelves, and there are no papers lying about

What is personality, and how can it be distinguished from ability?

Refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior.

What steps can organizations take to hire people with high levels of cognitive ability?

Utilize tests, such as the Wonderlic test, prior to hiring employees.

What are the various types of cognitive ability?

Verbal, quantitative, reasoning, spatial, perceptual