ORGS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Job Performance, Trait Theory, Inductive Reasoning
20 Jul 2016
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The structures and properties inside people that explain their characteristics patterns of thought, emotion and behavior; reflects that people are like and creates their social reputation. Creates people"s social reputations- the way that they"re perceived by friends, family, co-workers and supervisors. Recurring trends in people"s responses to their environment. Recurring regularities or trends in people"s responses to their environment. Shared beliefs about desirable and states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influence the expression of traits. Can influence the development of people"s personality traits (as well as how those traits are expressed in daily life) Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities. In contrast to skills, which can be improved over time with training and experience, ability is relatively stable. Although they can change slowly overtime with training and repeated practice- the level of a given ability generally limits how much a person can improve.
