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the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.
Personality
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Enduring characteristics that describe an individual's behavior
personality traits
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Factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological, and inherent psychological make-up
Heredity
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A personality test that taps 4 characteristics and classifies people int 1 of 6 personality types.
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
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a personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions.
Big Five model
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A personality dimension that describes someone's who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
Conscientiousness
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a personality characterized by calmness, self-confident and secure (positive) vs. nervous depressed and insecure (negative)
Emotional Stability
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A personality dimension describing someone who is sociable, gregarious and assertive
Extraversion
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A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination sensitivity and curiosity
Openness to experience
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Someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting
Agreeableness
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A constellation of negative personality traits consisting of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy.
Dark Triad
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The degree in which an individual is pragmatic maintains emotional distance and believes the ends can justify the means.
Machiavellianism
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The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and a sense of entitlement.
Narcissism
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The tendency for a lack of concern for others and a lack of guilt or remorse when actions cause harm.
Psychopath
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A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust to his or her behavior to external situations factors.
Self-monitoring
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People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action and persevere until meaningful change occurs
Proactive personality
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A theory indicating that the was personality translates into behavior depends on the strength of the situation,
Situational strength theory
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A theory that predicts that some situations, events, or interventions "activate" a trait more than others.
Trait Activation Theory
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Basic convictions that specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to opposite modes of conduct or end-state existence
Values
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A hierarchy based on the ranking of an individual's value in terms of their intensity.
Value system
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Desirable end-state of existence the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime
Terminal Values
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Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values.
Instrumental values
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A theory that identifies six personalities types and proposes the fit between personality type and occupational environments determine satisfaction
Personality Job-fit theory.
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A theory that people are attracted to and selected by organizations that match their values and leave when there is not compatibility
person-organizational fit
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A national culture attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.
Power Distance
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A national culture attribute that describes the degree to which people prefer to act alone rather than as members of a group.
individualism
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A national culture with a tight social framework and the people are interdependent. (Asia, Africa, South America)
Collectivism
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A national culture attributed to favor traditional masculine work roles and achievements, power and control by assertiveness and materialism.
masculinity
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A national culture attributed that little difference is between male and females and where women want equal status.
Feminity
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A national culture attribute that society feels threatened by uncertainty and ambiguous situations trying to avoid them
Uncertainty Avoidance
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National culture emphasizing the future, thrift, and persistence.
Long-term orientation.
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A national culture attributed that emphasizes the present and accepts change.
Shor-term orientation.
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