[BU288] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 24 pages long Study Guide!
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Many employers rank personality more important than experience and education. Personality: the relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influence the way an individual interacts with their environment. Summarizes their personal style of dealing w the world. Reflected in way you deal w ppl, situations, problems. Consists of number of dimensions and traits that are determined in complex way by genetic predisposition and long-term learning history. Dispositional approach: individual posses stable traits/characteristics that influence attitudes and behaviours. Situational approach: (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s of the orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al setti(cid:374)g i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e ppl"s attitudes + (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours. Rewards and punishments used to influence behaviour, feelings, attitudes: work satisfaction determined by situational factors at large. Interactionist approach: i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s attitudes a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iours are a fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:271)oth dispositio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d the situatio(cid:374) To predi(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d ob, o(cid:374)e (cid:373)ust k(cid:374)o(cid:449) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s perso(cid:374)ality and the setting in which they work: most accepted perspective within ob, weak situation not always clear how a person whould behave.
