People who have high levels of……
are more likely to experience higher levels of stress, strain, and anxiety at work.
Negative affectivity
The Super Sweet has experienced problems with employees engaging in deviant workplace behaviours. As a result, they are going to begin to use personality tests to hire employees who are less likely to be deviant. What should they be looking for?
High conscientiousness and high agreeableness
The Hogan Personality Inventory, often referred to as the HPI, is often used in selection. The test is intended to showcase someone’s personality on their
Good days
The Myers Briggs Inventory is an exceptional tool to measure the Big-5 personality dimensions?
False
When selecting a personality test to use for either personal development or selection, it’s important the test have which of the following?
High levels of validity
Which of the following is related to learning outcomes?
Core self-evaluations
According to trait activation theory,
traits lead to certain behaviours only when the situation makes the need for that trait salient
Managers should be especially careful in administering punishment because
punishment has a tendency to provoke a strong emotional reaction on the part of the punished individual
Someone who feels like they can make things happen is likely to have high levels of
Internal Locus of Control
Recent studies suggest that extraversion is related to absenteeism in a positive direction. This means that
extraverts tend to be absent more often than introverts
Personality will have the most impact in which situation?
Weak situations of loosely defined roles with few rules
Which of the following statements concerning extinction is FALSE?
Using the application of an unpleasant stimulus after an unwanted behaviour, extinction can reduce the probability of that behaviour occurring again.
Which of the following is related to higher work performance?
Conscientiousness
Behavioural plasticity has to do with how external and social influences can change people’s self-esteem
False
The Break a Sweat fitness company has a serious problem with the commitment of new employees. As a result, they are thinking about including personality measures in the selection process. If they want to hire employees who will be highly committed, what would be the best personality variable to include in the selection process?
Agreeableness
f you are looking at identifying your strengths and weaknesses. One test can look at how periods of stress, you might have certain tendencies that are being overused, which can challenge or derail your relationship with others. Which test can help you identify these types of characteristics?
Hogan Development Scale
After installing brand new technology, Hand me a Brew Breweries found that many of its employees were not very confident about using the technology and so they continued to use the old technology. What is the source of this problem?
self-efficacy beliefs
My company is looking for really engaged employees, which of the following personality characteristic should I look for?
Positive affectivity
The Better Roofing construction company was having a tremendous amount of accidents at work. They recently switched their pay structure. In lieu of paying employees for each piece of shingles they installed, they opted to pay them an hourly rate. They found that the difference in pay structure actually decreased accident rates. What can we conclude?
Unsafe working practices were extinguished
Which of the following statements concerning punishment is generally TRUE?
While punishment signals which behaviours are inappropriate, it fails to illustrate correct behaviour
