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People who are more other-oriented will help others when they expect to be helped in the future.

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Marina Lyon works as a reservation executive at a travel and tourism company. Though her job requires her only to efficiently book flight tickets for customers, she has also opted to undergo training to learn the process of hotel reservations. In addition, every evening she reads travelogues to be aware of upcoming travel destinations and trends. She loves the industry she works in and is eager to learn as much as she can. Considering the information given in this case, which dimension of the Big Five model best describes Lyon's personality ?

A) conscientiousness
B) agreeableness
C) openness to experience
D) emotional stability
E) extroversion

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Valerie Sinclair, a climate campaigner at an environmental organization, invariably uses rationale to make decisions for project implementation. She believes that the right decisions can be made only through scrutinization and analysis. Each time she needs to make a decision, she weighs all options before taking action. Which of the following is Sinclair's personality type according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification?

Individuals high in self-monitoring have a high behavioral consistency between who they are and how they behave.

Which of the following statements is most likely to be true regarding people with proactive personalities?

Milton Rokeach created the Rokeach Value Survey (RVS) which consisted of two sets of values, namely ________ values and ________ values.

According to Gordon Allport, ________ is defined as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator classification, people belonging to the feeling type use reason and logic to solve problems.

Percy Collins works as a life advisor at an insurance firm and often looks for constant admiration from his manager every time he sells a policy. He also feels that he is the best at his work and no other advisor in his company has the ability or the skills to sell the amount of policies that he can. Often during meetings and team building exercises, colleagues find him rude, distant, and antagonistic. Identify and describe the personality trait exhibited by Collins.

Which of the following is true of the baby boomer generation?

According to Hofstede's framework, ________ indicates the degree to which people in a country prefer structured to unstructured situations.

The ________ is a personality assessment model that taps basic dimensions which encompass most of the significant variation in human personality, namely extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.

Esther Lugo has gone for an interview at an advertising firm in Manhattan and has been asked to complete a self-report survey to help interviewers understand if she is the right candidate for the job. From the interview, they have found that she is extroverted, empathic, scrupulous, and cooperative in nature, which are key characteristics needed for the job. These characteristics about Lugo indicate her ________.

Explain the effect of core self-evaluation on job performance.

According to the Big Five Model, a drawback of introverts is that they tend to be more impulsive than extraverts and engage in risky behavior.

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) classification, people belonging to the judging type prefer control and like their world to be ordered and structured.

Who defined personality as the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment?

Describe conscientiousness and explain how it can predict behavior at work.

According to the Big Five Model, the ________ dimension addresses a range of interests and fascination with novelty.

Individuals scoring ________ have a strong ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors and can behave differently in different situations.