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Please provide answers and appropriate quotation for the following. Each should be a minimum of 200 words in length.

1. According to the explanations provided by McShane and Von Glinow (2013), explain and debate one of the opportunities and one of the challenges of globalization. Explain how workplace diversity might be related to globalization. 
2. Explain the reason why companies give potential employees personality tests. Also, explain the five-factor model of personality dimensions, and how they affect workplace behavior. Discuss the MBTI and its four personality types. 
3. Describe the four factors that directly influence individual behavior and performance (provided by McShane and Von Glinow, 2013), and explain a scenario or real-life example for two of the four factors. 
4. Discuss the anchors on which organizational behavior is based (provided by McShane and Von Glinow, 2013), and explain a scenario or real-life example for at least one type. 
5. You are manager of a district that has just hired several recent university and college graduates. Most of these people are starting their first full-time job, although most or all have held part-time and summer positions in the past. They have general knowledge of their particular skill area (accounting, engineering, marketing, etc.) but know relatively little about specific business practices and developments. Explain how you would nurture the self-concepts in these new hires to strengthen their performance and maintain their psychological well-being. 
6. What mental models do you have about attending a college or university lesson? Are these mental models helpful? Could any of these mental models hold you back from achieving the full benefit of the lesson? 
7. You may have heard the expression: "If it is your perception, it is your reality." Please discuss this issue, and comment on how easy/difficult it may be to change one's perception. Share a related personal experience. (textbook is:  McShane, S. L., & Von Glinow, M. A. (2013). Organizational behavior: Emerging knowledge, global reality (6th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.) you are asked to reference and follow APA formatting on this one.
8. Describe the elements of self-concept, and explain how they affect an individual's behavior and well-being. Share a related personal experience.