Ob: Chapter 9 & 10

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Personality

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the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior -captures what people are like

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Traits

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recurring regularities or trends in people's responses to their environment

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Cultural Values

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shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given structure.

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The big five taxonomy

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Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience and extraversion

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Conscientiousness

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dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and preserving

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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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Agreeableness

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warm, kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, and courteous

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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

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zero acquaintance

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situations in which two people have just met

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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 engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation.

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Neuroticism

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nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, and jealous

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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 exposure

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more likely to label day to day situations as stressful

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differential reactivity

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belief you are less likely to cope with stressors they experience

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locus of control

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events are caused by internal you or your external environment

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Openness to experience

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curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, and sophisticated

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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personality test that evaluates four types of preferences: Extraversion vs. Intro, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, Judging vs. Perceiving

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Interests

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expressions of personality that influence behavior through preferences for certain environments and activities.

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RIASEC model

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interests can be summarized by six different personality types

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Culture

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shared values, beliefs, motives, identities, and interpretations that result from common experiences of members of a society and are transmitted across generations

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individualism-collectivism

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culture is lose knit or tight knit

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power distance

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power distribution: uniformly or unequally

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uncertainty avoidance

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culture tolerates uncertain situations, values unusual ideas; or culture is threatened in uncertain situations, relies on formal rules

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masculine-femininity

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culture values male stereotypical traits vs. female stereotypical traits

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Short-long term orientation

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values past and present oriented vs. future oriented

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Project GLOBE

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main purpose is to examine the impact of culture on the effectiveness of various leader attributes behaviors and practices

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maximum performance

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performance in brief, special circumstances that demands a persons best effort

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typical performance

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performance in routine conditions that surround daily job tasks

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situational strength

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strong situations have clear behavioral expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between employees less important....while weak situations lack those cues

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trait activation

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some situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given trait - a cry for help triggers empathy

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Integrity tests

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honesty tests that focus on predisposition to engage in theft and other counterproductive behavior

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clear purpose test

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ask applicants about the frequency of dishonesty, endorsements of common rationalizations for dishonesty...

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veiled purpose tests

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assess more general personality traits associated with dishonest acts

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faking

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exaggerating your responses to a personality test in a socially desirable fashion

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Ability

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relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities: cognitive, emotional, physical

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cognitive ability

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capes related to the acquisition and application of knowledge in problem solving

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verbal ability

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capes associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication

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quantitative ability

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two math capes: number facility or simple math operations; mathematical reasoning or to choose and apply formulas to solve problems

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reasoning ability

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diverse set of capes: problem sensitivity, deductive reasoning-use general rules to solve problems, inductive reasoning-use specific pieces of info to reach a more general solution, originality-creative ways to solve problems

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spatial ability

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capes associated with visual and mental rep and manipulation of objects in space: spatial orientation-situational awareness, visualization-imagine how separate things look together in a certain way

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perceptual ability

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perceive and understand and recall patterns of info: speed and flexibility of closure-ability to pick out patterns quickly, perceptual speed-examine and compare numbers, letters and objects quickly

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general cognitive ability

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g-factor: underlies or causes all other cognitive abilities

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emotional intelligence

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self awareness, other awareness, emotion regulation, use of emotions

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self awareness

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ability to understand the types of emotions he or she is experiencing, the willingness to acknowledge them, and the capability to express them naturally

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other awareness

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ability to recognize and understand the emotions that other people are feeling

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emotion regulation

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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 their task.

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strength

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the degree to which the body is capable of exerting force: static-ability to pull, push, lift very heavy objects, explosive-short bursts of energy, dynamic-force for a prolonged period of time w/o giving up

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stamina

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lungs and heart system to work efficiently while engaged in prolonged activity

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flexibility

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ability to bend, stretch, twist or reach: extent-extreme ranges of motion-working in cramped environment, dynamic-repeated bends, etc.

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coordination

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quality of physical movement: gross body-ability to synchronize the movements of the body while in motion, gross body equilibrium-to maintain balance of body in unstable contexts

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psychomotor abilities

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capacity to manipulate and control objects: fine manipulative-keep hands steady, control movement-auto mechanic, response orientation-chose the right action in response to several different signals, response time-reflexes

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Sensory abilities

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abilities associated with vision and hearing: near and far vision, night vision, visual color discrimination and depth perception, hearing sensitivity, auditory attention, speech recognition