ORGS 1000 Lecture 14: ORGS 1000 Lecture 14

• School: York University
• Department: Organization Studies
• Course: ORGS 1000
• Professor: Marnie Smith

Document Summary

Takeaways: personality refers to the structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) patter(cid:374)s of thought, e(cid:373)otio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour. It also refers to a perso(cid:374)(cid:859)s so(cid:272)ial reputation the way he or she is perceived by others. Cultural values are shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influences the expression of traits. Ability refers to the relatively stable capabilities of people to perform a particular range of different but related activities. Personality and values capture what people are like (unlike ability, which reflects what people can do) General mental ability, or g, underlies all of these more specific cognitive abilities. It has stronger effects on these outcomes rather than the rest of the big 5. General cognitive ability has a strong positive relationship with job performance, due primarily to its effects on task performance. In contrast, general cognitive ability is not related to organizational commitment.