MGOC10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Organizational Learning, Negative Affectivity, Positive Affectivity
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Chapter 2- personality and learning: more and more companies are focusing on fitness and wellness in an effort to lower health care costs, increase productivity, reduce absenteeism and attract and retain talent. According to this approach, individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways: situational approach: factors in the work environment that might predict and explain organizational behaviour. According to this approach, characteristics of the organizational setting such as rewards and punishments influence people"s feeli(cid:374)gs, attitudes a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour. Interactionist approach (interactionism): organizational behaviour is a function of both dispositions and the situations. As a result, personality has the most impact in weak situations: the key concept is fit: putting the right person in the right job, group, or organization and exposing different employees to different management styles. The five factor model of personality: extraversion: the extent to which a person is outgoing versus shy. High extraversion leads to a liking of social situations and vice versa.
