PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Current Literature, Job Performance, Extraversion And Introversion
29 Sep 2017
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Myers briggs was developed based on intuition and is not extensively validated with scientific methods. It is unstable and no one actually thinks that personalities come in types. We are trying to determine if the way you behave as a person is determined by either your personality as a person, or the situation you are in. Person: individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. (dispositions) Situation: characteristics of the organizational setting such as rewards, influence people"s attitudes and behaviours. (we need to understand situational influence systematically. : you do however, bring certain impacts to a situation. In the 1960s and 1960s, one major concern was that the validity of personality inventories as predictors of job performance and other organizationally relevant criteria seemed generally low. An examination of the current literature suggests that this concern is still a legitimate one: murphy and dzieweczy ski (2005)
