An Employee Scoring Very High on the Self-Development Component of an OCB

question 19

Multiple Choice

An employee scoring very high on the self-development component of an OCB measure might be expected to ______.

• A) be particularly outgoing to new employees and try to make them welcome
• B) volunteer to take a skills course to improve the range of tasks she can accomplish
• C) volunteer to help others with particularly difficult tasks
• D) take a leadership role among employees at similar hierarchical levels

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Definitions:

Recessive Genes

Genes that produce their characteristic phenotype only when their allele is identical and not masked by a dominant allele in a pair.

Additive Genes

Genes that contribute incrementally in varying degrees to the phenotype of an organism.

Dominant

Refers to a trait that overshadows another when both are present, or an individual/group that exerts power over others in a given context.

Recessive

Describing a gene that is expressed in the phenotype only when two copies of the gene (one from each parent) are present.