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Great Man Theory Basic Premise:
- Leaders and followers are different
- ---Looked for personality differences
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Great Man Theory Research Findings
- -Leaders are not qualitatively different
- -Some characteristics moderately related to leadership success
- -"right stuff" no guarantee, but helped
- -Turned focus to behavior differences
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Personality is
- Underlying, unseen structures and processes taht explain why individuals behave they way they do
- other terms used
- -individual differences
- -personality traits
- -dispositions
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Traits are
Recurring trends in our behavior, cues for determining personality
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Surgency(extraversion)
One's interactions with and influence on others
- Traits
- Dominance- drive control likes to influence others ambition
- Sociability-Outgoing; likes to interact with others; talkative
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Adjustment (neuroticism)
- Deals with how people react to stress, failurem criticism
- Traits
- positive traits-calm, confidence, patience, pleased, delighted
- negative traits- anxiousness, depression, anger, embarrassment, worry, insecurity
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agreeableness
- one's likeability
- deals with how cooperative and friendly people are, social conformity, compliance
Traits-courteousness, flexibility, forgiving, good-natured, soft-hearted, tolerant
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Dependability (conscientiousness)
- one's will to achieve
- deals with persistence at assigned work and reliability
- Traits
- achievement orientation-going above and beyond
- conformity-not breaking rules
- organization-detail oriented
- credibility-promise keeper
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intellectance
- ones reactions to new experiences
- deals with one's willingness to try new things
- Traits
- imaginative, curiosm broad-minded, risk-taker
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Myers Briggs
Personality Inventory
- Extronversion/Introversion Where people get their energy
- Sensing/Intuition How people collect information
- Thinking/Feeling decision making and analytical styles
- Judging/Perceiving what info you need to make decisions
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Intelligence is
- a person's all-round effectiveness in activities directed by thought(cognitive ability)
- 1. relatively difficult to change
- 2. can be modified through education and experiences
- 3. does not impact behaviors equally across situations
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- unitary mental ability; general ability to solve complex mental problems
- 1. looks at one's abilities
- 2. most popular and most common
- 3. most empirical support
- 4. lots of tests available to evaluate
- 5. most tests are fairly valud; predict job performance
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Triarchi theory of intelligence:
how information is combined and synthesized to solve problems; what you do rather than ability
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Triarchi theory of intelligence-Analytic
learning how to do things; planning what to do; actually doing
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Triarchi theory of intelligence-practical
street smarts use part learning to adapt to situations
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Triarchi theory of intelligence- creative
routinizing performance vs being creative when faced with new task
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divergent
many possible answers
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convergent
one best answer
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creativity
divergent thinking fresh observations
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synthetic ability
ability to recognize novel patterns
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thinking styles
preferred way of using your abilities
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personality factors
intellectance and surgency
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intrinisic motivation
needs to be challenged
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environmental factors
situational effects
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creeping elegance
- -when leaders do not have a clear vision of what a final project should look like
- -creativity without direction
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Emotional-Self awareness
recognize and understand your moods and their effect on others
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Emotional-self regulation
controlling and redirecting your disruptive moods
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Emotional- motivation
passion for what you do
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Emotional-empathy
recognize and understand emotional makeup of others
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emotional-social skill
proficiency in managing relationships and building networks
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