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Personality
Determinants
- Enduring, way a person feels, thinks, behaves
- Nature: Stable over time
- Nurture: Influenced by genetics and environment
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Personality
Impact of Organizational Situation
Your performance & how much your personality impacts your performance, depends on your work setting
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Attraction-Selection-Attrition
- People with similar personalities attracted to an organization (attraction) - People apply to an organization
- Organization tend to hire people with similar personalities (Selection)
- People with different personalities leave (Attrition)
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Personality
Big Five
Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism (OCEAN)
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Other Relevant Personality Characteristics
Self Monitoring
Extent people try to control the way they present themselves to others
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Other Relevant Personality Characteristics
Locus of Control
- Internal: believe their actions and behaviors have an impact on what happens to them
- External: believe that outside forces are responsible for their fate; don't see connection b/w what they do and what happens to them
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Other Relevant Personality Characteristics
Self-Esteem
People who have pride in their capabilities. People with high self esteem choose more challenging goals and careers. Also have higher motivation and job satisfaction
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Personality
Type A
Driven, competitive, impatient, hostile, work best alone, difficult to work with, like short-term projects.
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Personality
Type B
Relaxed, easy-going
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McClelland's Needs
Need for Achievement
People with a high need for achievement compete with themselves. Improving their performance is satisfying. Real satisfaction the get is achievement itself, measured against themselves. Place lower value on money
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McClelland's Needs
Need for Affiliation
Need to interact in a positive way with other people
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McClelland's Needs
Need for Power
Need to have influence over other people and to be able to do things that may not want to or ordinarily do. i.e., CEO
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Emotional Intelligence
- Ability to understand & manage one's own emotions
- Ability to understand others' emotions
- Ability to use that understanding to effectively communicate w/& influence others
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Limitations of personality test
- People present selves in positive light
- Variability in people who score similarly
- Are traits related to specific job?
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Abilities: What a person is capable of doing
- Cognitive: refers to general intelligence. i.e., IQ Score
- Physical: refers to motor skill (how well you can manipulate things) & how strong you are
- Emotional intelligence
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3 Ways of Managing Ability
Selection
Selecting people w/the abilities & personality characteristics that you have demonstrated or know are needed tow work in a particular position within an organization
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3 Ways of Managing Ability
Placement
Looking at people & their skills & placing them in the best postion
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3 Ways of Managing Ability
Training
Training them to do their job
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