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30 Cards in this Set
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Personality
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The structures, propensities, and traits inside a person that explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior
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Cultural Values
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The shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture
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Ability
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The relatively stable capabilities employees possess tht allow them to perform a particular range of related activities.
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Traits
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Recurring regularities or trends in people's responses to their environment
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Big Five
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The five major dimensions of personality, including conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion
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Accomplishment Striving
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A strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as a means of expressing personality
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Communion Striving
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A strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing personality
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Status Striving
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A strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing personality.
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Positive Affectivity
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A dispositional tendency to experience pleasant engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation
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Negative Affectivity
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A dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance
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Locus of Control
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Whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the external environment1
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Creativity
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The capacity to generate novel and useful ideas and solutions
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Individualism-Collectivism
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The degree to which a culture has loosely knit social framework (individualism) or a tight social framework (collectivism)
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Power Distance
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The degree to which a culture prefers equal power distribution (lower power distance) or an unequal power distribution ( high power distance).
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Uncertainty Avoidance
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The degree to which a culture tolerates ambiguous situations (low uncertainty avoidance) or feels threatened by them (high uncertainty avoidance)
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Masculinity- Femininity
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The degree to which a culture values stereotypically male traits (masculinity) or stereotypically female traits (femininity)
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Short-Term vs. Long-term orientation
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The degree to which a culture stresses values that are past-and present- oriented (short-term orientataion) or future-oriented (long-term orientation
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Ethnocentrism
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A propensity to view one's own cultural values as "right" and those of other cultures as "wrong."
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Cognitive Abilities
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Capabilities related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving
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Verbal Ability
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Various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication
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Quantitative Ability
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Various capabilities associated with doing math operations and choosing and applying formulas to solve problems
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Reasoning Ability
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A diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic.
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Spatial Ability
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Various capabilities associated with understanding one's environment and imaging changes to the environment.
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Perceptual Abilities
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Being able to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information
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General Cognitive Ability
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An overall level of mental ability that drives more specific cognitive capabilities (often abbreviated g).
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Emotional Intelligence
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A set of abilities related to the understanding and use of emotions that affect social functioning.
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Self-Awareness
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The appraisal and expression of emotions within oneself
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Other Awareness
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The appraisal and recognition of emotion in others
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Emotion Regulation
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Being able to recover quickly from emotional experiences.
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Use of emotions
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The degree to which people can harness emotions and employ them to improve their chances of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do.
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