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QUESTION 1
Jason is applying for a job. A pre-employment assessment indicates that he is generally helpful, considerate, cooperative, and trusting of others. Jason has a high level of…
Agreeableness |
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Openness to experience |
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Extraversion |
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Conscientiousness |
QUESTION 7
Julio is generally happy and content with his job. He enjoys his salary and gets along well with his coworkers. He is not energetic or enthusiastic about his work though. Julio is showing high _____________ and low _______________.
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Organizational commitment; job satisfaction |
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Organizational citizenship; employee engagement |
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Employee engagement; job satisfaction |
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Job satisfaction; employee engagement |
QUESTION 8
Suppose you are looking to hire engineers. ___________________ refer to “can do” or “competence”-related factors that influence their performance. ________________ refer to the “will do” or “character” factors that influence their performance.
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Conscientiousness and integrity; knowledge and skill in engineering |
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Conscientiousness and integrity; extraversion and agreeableness |
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Knowledge and skill in engineering; conscientiousness and integrity |
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Knowledge and skill in engineering; intelligence |
QUESTION 10
Charles stays at his job because he feels obligated. He would feel guilty about leaving, with all that his coworkers and supervisor have done for him. Which type of commitment is this demonstrating?
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Affective commitment |
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Continuance commitment |
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Group commitment |
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Normative commitment |
QUESTION 11
A teacher has discovered over a period of time that, even though her school has treated her well and she has a positive view of the school and the organization’s mission, she does not really like to teach and the task of teaching is not really for her. This is most likely to result in low levels of…
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Affective commitment |
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Continuance commitment |
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Normative commitment |
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Job satisfaction |
(Because of various Guidelines.I can't answer all of them. But will try to answer some of them)
Question 1 - (A) Agreeableness
Explanation - According to the Big five personality trait model. Agreeableness has the tendency to being cooperative, helpful in nature and trusting others. Other options are also a part of the Big five personality trait model but they are incorrect because they talk about curiosity, creativity and emotions.
Question 7 - (D) job satisfaction; employee engagement
Explanation - Here in the given example, Julio is showing high job satisfaction. As he high satisfied with his job and he enjoys his salary and coworker company.but he shows the low employee engagement as he don't want to engage in work and not in energetic mode.
Question 8 - (B) Conscientiousness and integrity; extraversion and agreeableness
Explanation - Here in the given case, Conscientiousness and integrity shows how much a person is honest and what is the personality, ability to do something and behavior of the person.Whereas, extraversion and agreeableness show how a person's characters like cooperative, friendly, sociability, talkative and excitability.
Question 10 - (D) Normative commitment
Explanation - Normative commitment is the type of commitment.where the employee committed toward the organization and coworkers. They feel that they should have to continue working in the organization. Other options are incorrect because they talk about the commitment towards the group and need component in the organization.