On an employee personality test, Andre scores high on the authoritarianism dimension and low on the honesty-humility dimension

Statistically speaking, this indicates that Andre is at a higher risk to engage in ______________ than employees with the opposite pattern of test results.
A) absenteeism
B) sexual harassment
C) counterproductive behavior
D) organizational violence


Answer: B
Rationale: Some traits are related to harassment, such as honesty-humility, which is negatively correlated with harassment, whereas authoritarianism is positively associated with harassment.

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