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Personality
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Refers to the structures and propensities 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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Shared beliefs about desireable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture, influence the development of a persons personality traits.
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Traits
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recurring regularities or trends in peoples responses to their environment.
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How does personality develop?
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Nature: Study of identical twins, Genes
Nurture: surrounding, experiences |
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Conscientiousness
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Dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering
Conscientious employees prioritize accomplishment striving |
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Accomplishment Striving
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strong desire to accomplish task related goals as a means of expressing personality
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Big 5 Personality Traits
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conscientiousness
agreeableness extraversion neuroticism openness to experience |
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agreeableness
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warm, kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, and courteous
focus on "getting along" not necessarily "getting ahead" prioritize communion striving |
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communion striving
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strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing personality
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extraversion
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talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, and dominant.
Easiest to judge in zero acquaintance situations. Prioritize status striving. Tend to be high in positive affectivity. |
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status striving
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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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dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engagine moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation.
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neuroticism
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nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, and jealous.
synonimous with negative affectivity. associated with a differential exposure to stressors. associated with a differential reactivity to stressors. |
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negative affectivity
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dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance
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differential reactivity
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people are less likely to believe they can cope with the stressors that they experience.
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Neuroticism also strongly related to...
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locus of control.
tend to hold an external locus of control |
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locus of control
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reflects whether people attribute the causes of events to themselves or to the external environment.
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Openness to experience
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curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, and sophisticated.
also called inquisitiveness, or intellectualness, or even culture. More likely to be valuable in jobs that require high levels of creativity. Individuals more likely to migrate to artistic/scientific fields. |
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MBTI evaluates individuals on the basis of four types of preferences
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Extraversion/Introversion Sensing/Intuition Thinking/Feeling Judging/Perceiving |
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RAISEC model: interests can be summarized by 6 personality types, created by
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Holland
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional |
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RIASEC: realistic
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enjoy practical, hands on, real world tasks
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RIASEC: investigative
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enjoy abstract, analytical, theory oriented tasks
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RIASEC: artistic
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enjoy entertaining and fascinating others using imagination
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RIASEC: social
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enjoy helping, serving, or assisting others
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RIASEC: enterprising
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enjoy persuading, leading
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RIASEC: conventional
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enjoy organizing, counting, or regulating people or things
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ethnocentricism
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propensity to view ones own cultural values as right and those of other cultures as wrong
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culture
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shared values, beliefs, motives, identities, and interpretations that result from common experiences of members of society and are transmitted across generations
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affects job performance:
a key driver of whats referred to as typical performance, reflecting performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job tasks |
conscientiousness
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employee's ______ is a key driver of maximum performances, in brief, special circumstances that demand a persons best effort
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ability
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Principal of "situational strength"
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"strong situations" have clear behavioral expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important, whereas "weak situations" lack those cues.
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Personality Tests
How many Fortune 1000 organizations use some type of personality testing? |
Integrity Tests
Clear Purpose Tests Veiled Purpose tests about 1/3 |
Integrity: focus specifically on a predispostion to engage in theft and other counterproductive behaviors.
Clear Purpose: ask about attitudes toward dishonesty, beliefs about frequency of dishonesty, desire to punish it, and confessions of it in the past. Veiled Purpose: assess more general personality traits that are associated with dishonest acts. |
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______ test scores are more strongly related to job performance than conscientiousness scores
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integrity test
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