1. Is an individual’s personality determined more by heredity/genetics or by the environment in which he or she is raised? Explain.
Whether an individual’s personality is determined more by heredity or by environment can go either way, your heredity and environment can influence your personality. An individual’s personality is the molecular structure of the genes located on the chromosomes (Robbins & Judge, 2015, p. 138). However, this does not mean your personality can never change. We recently threw a baby shower for a new coworker; instead of playing your traditional baby shower games we decided to do an icebreaker. Everyone in the room had to write down a memory as a child anonymously and we had to guess who the memory belonged to. One …show more content…
The absence of that relationship can make it hard to gauge the tone leaving you to find clues to justify our assumptions. Emailing in the work place is a perfect example; I’ve found myself in several situations where I couldn’t figure out the tone of the emails leaving me slightly uneasy to reply at that moment with the same person. One day I decided to take a trip to her desk just to introduce myself and make small talk, her face-to-face interaction told a different story. What I realized was every time I emailed her there were some corrective actions written. I’ve learned that face-to-face interaction (or even a phone call) becomes more valuable when the nature of the information is …show more content…
This research shows findings that Baby Boomers (1965-1985) value success, achievement, ambition, loyalty to career and dislike authority. Generation X (1985-2000) values work-life balance, team oriented, loyalty to relationships and dislike rules as well. Lastly, Millennials (2000-present) values confidence, financial success, self-reliance and team oriented, loyalty to relationships and self. (Robbins & Judge, 2015, p. 152) If I were to base my answer solely on this chart I would have to say it is accurate to say younger employees are less loyal to the organization however, I disagree. I read an article sometime last year (wish I could find it!) about the decline in employees loyalty, employees are no longer feeling obligated to stay with a company anymore. We should no longer hire with the assumption the employee will stay for the long run. This theory could apply to younger generations due to the fact the workforce is aging and
Whether an individual’s personality is determined more by heredity or by environment can go either way, your heredity and environment can influence your personality. An individual’s personality is the molecular structure of the genes located on the chromosomes (Robbins & Judge, 2015, p. 138). However, this does not mean your personality can never change. We recently threw a baby shower for a new coworker; instead of playing your traditional baby shower games we decided to do an icebreaker. Everyone in the room had to write down a memory as a child anonymously and we had to guess who the memory belonged to. One …show more content…
The absence of that relationship can make it hard to gauge the tone leaving you to find clues to justify our assumptions. Emailing in the work place is a perfect example; I’ve found myself in several situations where I couldn’t figure out the tone of the emails leaving me slightly uneasy to reply at that moment with the same person. One day I decided to take a trip to her desk just to introduce myself and make small talk, her face-to-face interaction told a different story. What I realized was every time I emailed her there were some corrective actions written. I’ve learned that face-to-face interaction (or even a phone call) becomes more valuable when the nature of the information is …show more content…
This research shows findings that Baby Boomers (1965-1985) value success, achievement, ambition, loyalty to career and dislike authority. Generation X (1985-2000) values work-life balance, team oriented, loyalty to relationships and dislike rules as well. Lastly, Millennials (2000-present) values confidence, financial success, self-reliance and team oriented, loyalty to relationships and self. (Robbins & Judge, 2015, p. 152) If I were to base my answer solely on this chart I would have to say it is accurate to say younger employees are less loyal to the organization however, I disagree. I read an article sometime last year (wish I could find it!) about the decline in employees loyalty, employees are no longer feeling obligated to stay with a company anymore. We should no longer hire with the assumption the employee will stay for the long run. This theory could apply to younger generations due to the fact the workforce is aging and