Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter 4: CHAPTER RECAP

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Victoria Digby

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Personality: refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour. Traits: reoccurring regularities or trans in peoples response to their environment. Cultural values: shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture. Ability: the relatively stable capabilities people have, to perform a particular range of different but related activities. The big five (o)openness > curious, imaginative, re ned, sophisticated. Valuable in jobs with high degree of creativity (c)oncientiousness >reliable, ambitious, hard-working, persevering. : a strong desire to accomplish task-related goals as means of expressing ones personality. Childhood conscientiousness=high ratings of career success (e)xtraversion >talkative, social, bold, assertive. :situations in which two people have only just met. :a strong desire to obtain power and in uence within a social structure. :a dispositional tendency to experience pleasant moods (a)ggreableness >sympathetic, helpful, courteous.