Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Egalitarianism, Self-Awareness, Ingroups And Outgroups
19 Dec 2017
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Chapter 4 - personality, cultural values and ability. Personality - refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behavior. Personality creates people"s social reputations - the way they are perceived by their friends, family, co-workers and supervisors. In this way personality captures what people are like: a collection of traits. Traits: reoccurring regularities or trends in people"s responses to their environment. Adjectives such as responsible, easygoing, polite, and reserved are examples of traits that can be used to summarize someone"s personality. In contrast to personality and values, ability captures what people can do. How can we describe what employees are like: using personality traits and cultural values. Neuroticism: dependable, organized, reliable, hardworking, kind, cooperative. Sophisticated: bold, dominant, not, critical, antagonist ic, callous. Secure: content ed, uninquisiti ve, convention al, conformin g.
