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21 Cards in this Set
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Motivation
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forces within a person that affect his or her direction, intensity, and persistence of voluntary behavior
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Ability
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natural aptitudes and learned capabilities required to successfully complete a task
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Competencies
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skills, knowledge, aptitudes, and other personal characteristics that lead to superior performance
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Role Perceptions
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extent to which people understand the job duties (roles) assigned to or expected of them
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Personality
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relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that characterize a person, along with psychological processes behind those characteristics
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Five-Factor Model (FFM)
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five abstract dimensions representing most personality traits: conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience, agreeableness, and extroversion
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Conscientiousness
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personality dimension describing people who are careful, dependable, and self-disciplined
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Neuroticism
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personality dimension describing people with high levels of anxiety, hostility, depression, and self-consciousness
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Extroversion
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personality dimension describing people who are outgoing, talkative, sociable, and assertive
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
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instrument designed to measure elements of Jungian personality theory, particularly preferences regarding perceiving and judging information
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Self-Concept
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individual's self-beliefs and self-evaluations
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Self-Efficacy
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person's belief that he or she has ability, motivation, correct role perceptions, and favorable situation to complete a task successfully
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Locus of Control
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person's general belief about amount of control he or she has over personal life events
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Social Identity Theory
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theory that explains self-concept interms of the person's unique characteristics (personal identity) and membership in various social groups (social identity)
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Individualism
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cross-cultural value describing degree to which people in a culture emphasize independence and personal uniqueness
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Collectivism
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cross-cultural value describing degree to which people in a culture emphasize duty to groups to which people belong and to group harmony
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Power Distance
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cross-cultural value describing the degree to which people in a culture accept unequal distribution of power in a society
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Uncertainty Avoidance
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cross-cultural value describing degree to which people in a culture tolerate ambiguity (low uncertainty avoidance) or feel threatened by ambiguity and uncertainty (high uncertainty avoidance)
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Achievement-Nurturing Orientation
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cross-cultural value describing degree to which people in a culture emphasize competitive versus cooperative relations with other people
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Moral Intensity
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degree to which an issue demands application of ethical principles
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Ethical Sensitivity
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personal characteristic that enables people to recognize presene of an ethical issue and determine its relative importance
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