Conscientiousness

Arkansas Through the writing of a college level life learning essay, this essay will explain that to have a successful marriage and family life in the 21st century, one should rely heavily upon these five aspects: commitment, communication, caring, conscientiousness, and observation. Kolb’s model of experimental learning Kolb’s model of experimental learning is composed of four key aspects: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract concepts, and active experimentation. Concrete…

According to Tuckman’s Five-Stage Theory of Group Development, the stages of group development are forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning (Kreitner, R., & Kinicki, A.p.274. (2013). During the forming stage, members of a team are just beginning to know what each person’s skills and talents are. This is where leaders are often discovered if they are not already the supervisor of the team. I have found that with the current coworkers within the organization where I work. Leaders…

Nowadays, procrastination is usually treated as our biggest enemy. According to Piers Steel: A high rate of college students engages in procrastination, many of them consider themselves procrastinators, and nearly a half of them procrastinate consistently and problematically (Piers Steel 65). For college students, “whose academic lives are characterized by frequent deadlines” (Bruce W. Tuckman 1), academic procrastination can be serious for them. Therefore, we need to know why students like to…

Core paper The individual difference factor of political orientation is founded on the differing perspectives of two ideological groups. The continuity of traditional values under the right-wing (conservatism) and individuals striving for reform are identified as the left-wing (liberalism) (Hibbing, Smith & Alford. 2014). Hibbing et al. (2014) extensive review was to provide a process model that identified influences associated with differences within the political spectrum (Maltby, Day &…

After taking the NEO-IP-R Personality Test, I concluded that the test was fairly accurate assessment of my personality, and it confirmed what I believe my personality to be. There were five factors and some sub-facets on each factor, which I am going to discuss whether or not I agree or disagree with each factor. The first category is Extraversion. I scored in the average numbers, with the description that I am neither a subdued loner nor a jovial chatterbox (IPIP-NEO). I would agree with this…

captured within this model, most stable patterns of thoughts, feelings, needs, and behaviors can be mapped onto Emotional Stability/Neuroticism, Extraversion/Surgency, Openness to Experiences/Intellect/Culture/Imagination, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness.” (Furtner & Rauthmann, 2010 pg.340) The big five are personality dimensions that can clue in leaders as to how well a person will fit in a group, or at a job. An individual’s personality traits can be measured by a questionnaire and give…

Argument Map How do we view the modern world today? Usually the first thing to come to mind is technology. Technology has expanded, from simple computing tasks, to the use of social media as an everyday task for the vast majority of the population. The real concern, however, is how much social media impacts the lives of its users. Several articles focus on the importance of social media’s effect on modern day lives. While there is much research on the topic, the six articles synthesized in this…

The quote “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing,” is a derogatory, uninvolved group of words, without context. But, coming from a football coach, specifically Henry Russell, the quote seems moderately more tame. With football having only two possible outcomes, the quote is put into accurate light, but outside of football, the passage is limiting, showing a very small perspective of life. With football comes two options: win or lose. With life however, there are seemingly infinite…

The movie On Golden Pond demonstrates the peaceful and tranquil life of the owners of a lake house in New England. The long-married owners, Norman and Ethel, are retired and are seeking to continue their long-lived summer traditions of fishing, board games, and fellowship. Norman is portrayed as a grumpy seventy-year-old European American with a fear and anxiety of death, which he manages through morbid humor. Ethel is shown as an optimistic sixty-year-old European American with a lively…

Awareness, and Relationship Management) into twenty-one competencies. After taking the test my strongest category was Self-Management where I scored an average of 4.03. Self-Management is divided into: emotional self-control, trustworthiness, conscientiousness, adaptability, optimism, achievement orientation, and initiative. This quadrant ultimately shows how well you can manage to do things without being told and how well trusted you are when given a task that you will get it done without…