At your new job, you have your first meeting with your manager. He tells you that he prefers a laid back approach to leadership, so has come up with a list of goals for you to work on for this year, and in 12 months you will reconvene and review what progress you’ve made. He tells you that you can make progress at whatever pace you want, as long as they’re all done in 12 months. What about this should make you nervous?

Isaac is expressing ____ when he says “I can beat the old Sonic game on my tablet before school.”

You work as the Chief Human Resources Officer at a top tier hedge fund (company whose purpose is to make money through trading stocks), where there is a strong expectation of success from each of the traders. After a week of bad performance, your regular satisfaction checks show a downturn, particularly from one manager’s employees. They also are making fewer trades. As the rest of the company returns to performing well, this group continues to show ever worse performance. A day later, you see one of the employees, formerly a model employee, screaming at the manager. This employee tenders their resignation later that day. What do you suspect may be happening? Choose the best answer.

Why do we use stereotypes?

I find that I’m largely extrinsically motivated. Which of the following would be the best example of this?

Someone scoring _____ would be nervous, tense, angry, and worried.

When a person assumes all people within a particular category possess the same traits or characteristics (for example, when a person says “All business school professors wear bow ties”), which step of stereotype building is this?

You’re managing a work team, and have just conducted satisfaction surveys. You discover relatively higher job dissatisfaction than you were expecting. What might you do to remedy this from a motivator-hygiene theory perspective?

“______ is the interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding and managing people in groups.

You notice that Sam, an intern in your company’s rotational program, has difficulties interacting with other people, but has a strong proficiency for quantitative analysis. Sam also seems happiest when performing these tasks, and is most productive when doing them. What would the best approach be when Sam is eligible to become a full time employee at the end of the summer?