BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Trait Theory, Job Performance, Normative Social Influence
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What is personality: personality is important to some companies who focus on personality when hiring employees, when it comes to hiring recent graduates many employers rank personality as more. Individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. Researched produced mixed and inconsistent findings that failed to support the usefulness of personality as a predictor of organizational behaviour and job performance: situational approach: characteristics of the organizational setting influence people"s attitudes and behaviour. Characteristics of the organizational setting such as rewards and punishment, influences people"s feelings, attitudes, and behaviour: people have argued about the importance of dispositions vs. the situation which is known as the person-situation debate. It is now believed that both approaches are important for predicting and understanding organizational behaviour. Interactionist approach: individual"s attitudes and behaviour are a function of both dispositions and the situation. To predict and understand organizational behaviour one must know something about an individual"s personality and the setting in which he or she works.
