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An ability to turn knowledge into effective action.
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Skill
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An ability to perform specialized tasks.
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Technical skill
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Computers
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The ability to work well with other people.
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Human Skill
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Good human skills = high degree of self-awareness
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The ability to manage oneself and one's relationships effectively.
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Emotional Intelligence (EI)
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Defined by Daniel Goleman
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Ability to understand your moods and emotions.
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Self-awareness
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Part of Emotional Intelligence
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Ability to think before acting and to control bad impulses.
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Self-regulation
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Part of Emotional Intelligence
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Ability to work hard and persevere.
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Motivation
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Part of Emotional Intelligence
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Ability to understand the emotions of others.
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Empathy
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Part of Emotional Intelligence
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Ability to gain rapport with others and build good relationships.
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Social Skill
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Part of Emotional Intelligence
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A capacity to get things done due to relationships with other people.
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Social Capital
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Relationships and networking
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The ability to analyze and solve complex problems.
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Conceptional Skill
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Good problem-solving decisions.
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The tension from extraordinary demands, constraints, or opportunities.
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Stress
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Being asked to do too much or being asked to do too little.
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Task Demands
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Type of work stressor.
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Not knowing what one is expected to do or how work performance is evaluated.
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Role Ambiguities
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Type of work stressor.
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Feeling unable to satisfy multiple, possibly conflicting, performance expectations.
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Role Conflicts
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Type of work stressor.
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Being asked to do things that violate the law or personal values.
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Ethical Dilemmas
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Type of work stressor.
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Experiencing bad relationships or working with others with whom one does not get along.
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Interpersonal Problems
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Type of work stressor.
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Moving too fast and feeling stretched; moving too slowly and feeling stuck on a plateau.
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Career Developments
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Type of work stressor.
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Being bothered by noise, lack of privacy pollution, or other unpleasant working conditions.
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Physical Setting
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Type of work stressor.
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When forces in their personal lives "spill over" to affect them at work.
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Spillover Effect
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Life Stressor
Family events, economic difficulties, personal affairs |
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A stress that has a positive impact on both attitudes and performance.
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Eustress
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Study hard before exam.
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A negative impact on both attitudes and performance.
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Distress
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A result of distress is job burnout.
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A loss of interest in or satisfaction with a job due to stressful working conditions.
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Job Burnout
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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. |
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A response or reaction to distress that has occurred or is threatened.
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Coping
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Two major types are problem-focused coping and emotion-focused coping
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Mechanisms manage the problem that is causing the distress.
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Problem-focused Coping
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Stand your ground and fight for what you want.
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Mechanisms that regulate emotions or distress.
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Emotion-focused Coping
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Try to look at the bright side of things.
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What is the best first-line strategy against stress?
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Stress Prevention
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Involves the pursuit of one's job and career goals with the support of a personal health promotion program.
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Personal Wellness
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Attention to smoking, weight, diet, fitness.
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Represent individuals' major beliefs and personal orientation concerning a range of issues involving social and physical setting.
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Personal Conception Traits
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The extent a person feels able to control his or her own life and is concerned with a person's internal-eternal orientation.
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Locus of Control
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Internals and externals.
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Believe that they control their own fate and destiny in terms of locus of control.
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Internals
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Tend to be more introverted and are more orientated towards their own feelings and ideas.
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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.
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Externals
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Tend to be more extroverted in their personal relationships and are more oriented towards the world around them.
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The overall combination of characteristics that capture the unique nature of a person as that person reacts to and interacts with others.
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Personality
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Enduring characteristics describing an individual's behavior.
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Personality Traits
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The Big Five Personality Dimensions is a key starting point.
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Outgoing, sociable, assertive.
In terms of the Five Factor Model. |
Extraversion
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Good-natured, trusting, cooperative.
In terms of the Five Factor Model. |
Agreeableness
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Responsible, dependent, persistent.
In terms of the Five Factor Model. |
Consciousness
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Unworried, secured, relaxed.
In terms of the Five Factor Model. |
Emotional Stability
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Imaginative, curious, broad-minded.
In terms of the Five Factor Model. |
Openness to Experience
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Strong positive or negative feelings directed towards someone or something.
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Emotions.
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Positive emotion when instructor complimented your project; negative emotion when instructor criticizes you in front of class.
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Emotions that arise from internal sources.
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Self-conscious Emotions
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Shame, guilt, embarrassment, pride.
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Emotions that derive from external sources.
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Social Emotions
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Pity, envy, jealousy.
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Generalized positive and negative feelings or states of mind.
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Moods
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"Oh, I just don't have the energy to do much today; I've felt down all week".
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A predisposition to respond positively or negatively to someone or something.
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Attitude
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I "like" or "dislike" something.
Are inferred from the things people say or through their behavior. |
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Type of attitude based on beliefs, values, and information.
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Cognition
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"My job lacks responsibility; work is important to me."
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Type of attitude that invokes positive and negative feelings.
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Affect
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"I don't like my job."
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Type of attitude for intended behavior.
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Behavior
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"I'm going to quit my job."
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Cognitive frameworks that represent organized knowledge developed through experience about people, objects, or events.
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Schema
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We commonly use script schemas, person schemas, and person-in situation schemas.
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Type of schema that is a knowledge framework that describes the appropriate sequence of events in a given situation.
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Script Schema
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A manager would use a script schema to think about the steps on running a meeting.
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Schema that contains information about a person's own appearance, behavior, and personality.
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Self Schema
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People with decisiveness schemas tend to step up in terms of leadership.
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Schema that refer to the way individuals sort others into categories such as types or groups, in terms of similar perceived features.
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Person Schemas
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Prototype and stereotype are used in this regard.
"Good teammate." |
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Combine schemas built around persons (Self and person schemas) and events (script schemas)
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Person-in-Situation Schemas
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The ability to understand our emotions and their impact on us and others.
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Self-awareness
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To understand our emotions and express them naturally.
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The ability to emphasize and understand the emotions of others.
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Social Awareness
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Understand emotions of others resulting in a better perception of them.
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The ability to think before acting and to control disruptive impulses.
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Self-management
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Form of self-regulation where we are in charge of our emotions.
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The ability to establish rapport with others to build good relationships.
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Relationship Management
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Makes good use of emotions to construct improved relationships.
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Posits that people will act to eliminate any felt inequity in the rewards received for their work in comparison with others.
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Equity Theory
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Getting a grade back for a test and seeing how everyone else did.
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Feeling under-rewarded or over-rewarded in comparison with others.
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Perceived Inequity
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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. |
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Argues that work motivation is determined by individual beliefs regarding effort/performance relationships and work outcomes.
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Expectancy Theory
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Motivation = Expectancy X Instrumentality X Valence
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The probability that work effort will be followed by performance accomplishment.
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Expectancy
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0 percent = Impossible task
100 percent = certain achievement |
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The probability that performance will lead to various work outcomes.
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Instrumentality
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Clarify possible rewards for performance.
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The value to the individual of various work outcomes.
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Valence
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Identify needs and match needs to high value needs.
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