Chapter 03 Values, Attitudes, Emotions, And Culture

Chapter 03
Values, Attitudes, Emotions, and Culture: The Manager as a Person

True / False Questions

1. The ability to feel, think, and act are referred to as personality traits.
True False

2. The effectiveness of a personality trait depends upon both the characteristics of the job of the manager and the particular organization in which the manager is working.
True False

3. Introverts tend to be sociable, outgoing, and friendly.
True False

4. Managers who are low on extraversion cannot be highly effective and efficient.
True False

5. The tendency of a manager to feel distressed and to be critical of himself and others is called negative affectivity.
True False

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Craig, a manager at XYZ Manufacturing, is a very positive individual. He exhibits very little negative emotions and moods and is always optimistic about himself and others. It can be said that Craig is low on negative affectivity.
True False

8. Conscientiousness has been found to be a good predictor of job performance.
True False

9. Entrepreneurs are less likely to be high on openness to experiences than a manager working for a large bureaucratic organization.
True False

10. Managers who believe that forces that exist outside of their own control are primarily responsible for their own success or failure are said to have a high internal locus of control.
True False

11. Effective managers need to have a high external locus of control.
True False

12. A high need for power is more important for first-line managers than it is for top managers.
True False

13. The extent to which a manager has a strong interest in performing challenging tasks in order to meet his or her own standards of excellence is said to have a high need for affiliation.
True False

14. A personal conviction about lifelong goals or objectives is called a terminal value.
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Topic: Values and Attitudes

24. (p. 87) People who are extraverted are more likely to experience positive moods than people who are introverted.
TRUE

People who are high on extraversion are especially likely to experience positive mood.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Bloom's: Understand
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 03-03 Appreciate how moods and emotions influence all members of an organization
Topic: Moods and Emotions

25. (p. 87) Emotions are more intense feelings than moods and are long-lived.
FALSE

Emotions are more intense feelings than moods, are often directly linked to whatever caused the emotion, and are more short-lived.

AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Bloom's: Remember

Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 03-03 Appreciate how moods and emotions influence all members of an organization
Topic: Moods and Emotions

26. (p. 87) Managers who are high on negative affectivity are always in a bad mood.