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An ability to turn knowledge into effective action.
Skill
An ability to perform specialized tasks.
Technical skill
Computers
The ability to work well with other people.
Human Skill
Good human skills = high degree of self-awareness
The ability to manage oneself and one's relationships effectively.
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Defined by Daniel Goleman
Ability to understand your moods and emotions.
Self-awareness
Part of Emotional Intelligence
Ability to think before acting and to control bad impulses.
Self-regulation
Part of Emotional Intelligence
Ability to work hard and persevere.
Motivation
Part of Emotional Intelligence
Ability to understand the emotions of others.
Empathy
Part of Emotional Intelligence
Ability to gain rapport with others and build good relationships.
Social Skill
Part of Emotional Intelligence
A capacity to get things done due to relationships with other people.
Social Capital
Relationships and networking
The ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
Conceptional Skill
Good problem-solving decisions.
The tension from extraordinary demands, constraints, or opportunities.
Stress
Being asked to do too much or being asked to do too little.
Task Demands
Type of work stressor.
Not knowing what one is expected to do or how work performance is evaluated.
Role Ambiguities
Type of work stressor.
Feeling unable to satisfy multiple, possibly conflicting, performance expectations.
Role Conflicts
Type of work stressor.
Being asked to do things that violate the law or personal values.
Ethical Dilemmas
Type of work stressor.
Experiencing bad relationships or working with others with whom one does not get along.
Interpersonal Problems
Type of work stressor.
Moving too fast and feeling stretched; moving too slowly and feeling stuck on a plateau.
Career Developments
Type of work stressor.
Being bothered by noise, lack of privacy pollution, or other unpleasant working conditions.
Physical Setting
Type of work stressor.
When forces in their personal lives "spill over" to affect them at work.
Spillover Effect
Life Stressor

Family events, economic difficulties, personal affairs
A stress that has a positive impact on both attitudes and performance.
Eustress
Study hard before exam.
A negative impact on both attitudes and performance.
Distress
A result of distress is job burnout.
A loss of interest in or satisfaction with a job due to stressful working conditions.
Job Burnout
Managers should watch for signs: absence, tardiness, careless work, negative attitude, resistance, hostility.

Managers should treat avoid these problems: build positive work environments and making significant invest in their employees.
A response or reaction to distress that has occurred or is threatened.
Coping
Two major types are problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping
Mechanisms manage the problem that is causing the distress.
Problem-focused Coping
Stand your ground and fight for what you want.
Mechanisms that regulate emotions or distress.
Emotion-focused Coping
Try to look at the bright side of things.
What is the best first-line strategy against stress?
Stress Prevention
Involves the pursuit of one's job and career goals with the support of a personal health promotion program.
Personal Wellness
Attention to smoking, weight, diet, fitness.
Represent individuals' major beliefs and personal orientation concerning a range of issues involving social and physical setting.
Personal Conception Traits
The extent a person feels able to control his or her own life and is concerned with a person's internal-eternal orientation.
Locus of Control
Internals and externals.
Believe that they control their own fate and destiny in terms of locus of control.
Internals
Tend to be more introverted and are more orientated towards their own feelings and ideas.
Believe that much of what happens to them is beyond their control and is determined by environmental forces (such as fate) in terms of locus of control.
Externals
Tend to be more extroverted in their personal relationships and are more oriented towards the world around them.
The overall combination of characteristics that capture the unique nature of a person as that person reacts to and interacts with others.
Personality
Enduring characteristics describing an individual's behavior.
Personality Traits
The Big Five Personality Dimensions is a key starting point.
Outgoing, sociable, assertive.

In terms of the Five Factor Model.
Extraversion
Good-natured, trusting, cooperative.

In terms of the Five Factor Model.
Agreeableness
Responsible, dependent, persistent.

In terms of the Five Factor Model.
Consciousness
Unworried, secured, relaxed.

In terms of the Five Factor Model.
Emotional Stability
Imaginative, curious, broad-minded.

In terms of the Five Factor Model.
Openness to Experience
Strong positive or negative feelings directed towards someone or something.
Emotions.
Positive emotion when instructor complimented your project; negative emotion when instructor criticizes you in front of class.
Emotions that arise from internal sources.
Self-conscious Emotions
Shame, guilt, embarrassment, pride.
Emotions that derive from external sources.
Social Emotions
Pity, envy, jealousy.
Generalized positive and negative feelings or states of mind.
Moods
"Oh, I just don't have the energy to do much today; I've felt down all week".
A predisposition to respond positively or negatively to someone or something.
Attitude
I "like" or "dislike" something.

Are inferred from the things people say or through their behavior.
Type of attitude based on beliefs, values, and information.
Cognition
"My job lacks responsibility; work is important to me."
Type of attitude that invokes positive and negative feelings.
Affect
"I don't like my job."
Type of attitude for intended behavior.
Behavior
"I'm going to quit my job."
Cognitive frameworks that represent organized knowledge developed through experience about people, objects, or events.
Schema
We commonly use script schemas, person schemas, and person-in situation schemas.
Type of schema that is a knowledge framework that describes the appropriate sequence of events in a given situation.
Script Schema
A manager would use a script schema to think about the steps on running a meeting.
Schema that contains information about a person's own appearance, behavior, and personality.
Self Schema
People with decisiveness schemas tend to step up in terms of leadership.
Schema that refer to the way individuals sort others into categories such as types or groups, in terms of similar perceived features.
Person Schemas
Prototype and stereotype are used in this regard.

"Good teammate."
Combine schemas built around persons (Self and person schemas) and events (script schemas)
Person-in-Situation Schemas
The ability to understand our emotions and their impact on us and others.
Self-awareness
To understand our emotions and express them naturally.
The ability to emphasize and understand the emotions of others.
Social Awareness
Understand emotions of others resulting in a better perception of them.
The ability to think before acting and to control disruptive impulses.
Self-management
Form of self-regulation where we are in charge of our emotions.
The ability to establish rapport with others to build good relationships.
Relationship Management
Makes good use of emotions to construct improved relationships.
Posits that people will act to eliminate any felt inequity in the rewards received for their work in comparison with others.
Equity Theory
Getting a grade back for a test and seeing how everyone else did.
Feeling under-rewarded or over-rewarded in comparison with others.
Perceived Inequity
Felt negative equity = person feels they earned less in proportion to work input.

Felt positive equity = person feels like they earned more in proportion to work input.
Argues that work motivation is determined by individual beliefs regarding effort/performance relationships and work outcomes.
Expectancy Theory
Motivation = Expectancy X Instrumentality X Valence
The probability that work effort will be followed by performance accomplishment.
Expectancy
0 percent = Impossible task

100 percent = certain achievement
The probability that performance will lead to various work outcomes.
Instrumentality
Clarify possible rewards for performance.
The value to the individual of various work outcomes.
Valence
Identify needs and match needs to high value needs.