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Define "self-efficacy." Explain what influences a person's self-efficacy, and the behavioral patterns that result from high and low self-efficacy. Discuss at least five ways that a manager can influence a subordinate's self-efficacy at work.

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Self-efficacy is a person's belief about...

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People with __________ see themselves as masters of their own fate.

A) High emotional stability
B) An internal locus of control
C) An external locus of control
D) High introversion
E) High extraversion

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Managers should attempt to raise subordinates' self-efficacy by all but one of the following. Which one?

The idea of "deliberate practice" is that takes 10,000 hours of practice to become really good at something.

Attitudes are a category of relatively fixed individual differences.

Proactive people are more likely to be entrepreneurial.

Marisa is office manager in a small company. Her employees find that they can often come late to work and leave early, and Marisa will cover their work for them. Marisa is likely to score:

Most entrepreneurs:

_____ represent(s) an individual's capacity for constructive thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.

Which of the following is not an element of emotional intelligence?

The ability to solve everyday problems by utilizing knowledge gained from experience in order to purposefully adapt to, shape, and select environments is called:

Which of the following is not one of the basic dimensions of the Big Five personality dimensions?

Self-efficacy beliefs are surface convictions supported by the most recent experiences a person has gone through.

Keyshawn is a player on a professional football team. Because of this, his play every week is scrutinized by fans and media, as well as his own coaches. Sometimes, their comments are very negative and even personal. Keyshawn will handle this better if he has a high level of _________ intelligence.

At ABC Inc., each employee is required to evaluate himself or herself as part of preparation to meet with his or her manager for the annual employee performance review. As part of this, Daneesha prepared a thoughtful and comprehensive list of her strengths and weaknesses. Daneesha was displaying her:

The most potent of the causes of our self-efficacy beliefs is our prior experience.

Define "emotional intelligence." Identify and explain its key components. What are the benefits of emotional intelligence and its relationship to job performance and leadership?

___________ is associated with success for managers and salespeople.

Research in industrial-organizational psychology concluded that the typical personality test is not a valid predictor of job performance.

Managers are not encouraged to nurture self-efficacy in subordinates, because doing so raises subordinates' expectations about their importance to the organization.