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The big 5 personality model

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  1. Extraversion
  2. Agreeableness
  3. Conscientiousness
  4. Emotional stability
  5. Openness to experience
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Extraversion

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Comfort level with relationships

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Agreeableness

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A personality dimension that describes someone who is good natured, cooperative, and trusting

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Conscientiousness

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A personality dimension that describes someone who is reliable, responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized

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Emotional stability

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A persons ability to withstand stress

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Openness to experience

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A personality dimension that characterizes someone in terms of imagination, sensitivity and curiosity

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The dark triad

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Machiavellianism
Narcisissim
Psychopathy

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Machiavellianism

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The degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance and believes that ends can justify means

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Narcissism

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The tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement

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Psychopathy

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A lack of concern for others, and a lack of guilt or remorse when their actions cause hard

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Core self evaluation

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The degree to which an individual likes or dislikes himself or herself, whether the person seems his elf or herself as capable and effective, and whether the person feels in control of his or her environment or powerless over the environment

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Self monitoring

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A personality trait that measures an individual’s ability to adjust his or her behaviour to external, situational factors

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Proactive personality.

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people who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs

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Emotions component

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Employees bring an emotional component with them to work every day. Anger, fear, sadness, happiness, disgust and surprise

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Three related terms that help define human mental states

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Affect
Emotions
Moods

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Affect

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A broad range of feelings that people experience

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Emotions

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Intense feelings that are directed at someone or something

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Emotions

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Intense feeling that are directed at someone or something

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Moods

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Feeling that tend to be less intense than emotions and lack a contextual stimulus. Also often last longer

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Emotional labour

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The requirement to express desired emotions at work.

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Emotional intelligence

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Assortment of non cognitive skills, capabilities and competencies that influence a persons ability to succeed in coping with environmental demand and pressures. Persons ability to be self aware

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Perception

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The process by which individuals organize and interpret their impressions to give meaning to their environment

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Factors influencing perception

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Perceiver, target, situation

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The perceiver

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Influenced by experience, motives, and emotional state

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The target
Characteristics of the target can affect what is being perceived
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The situation
The context in which we see objects or events influences our attention
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Perceptual errors
Flaws in perception due to mental shortcuts people make to simplify information that is processed
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Attribution theory
Suggests how we explain someone’s behaviour by crediting either the situation or the persons distribution
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Externally caused behaviour
Behaviours resulted from external factors
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Internally caused behaviour
Those we believe to be under the personal control of the individual
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Distinctiveness
How the persons behaviour varies from one situation to another. If a behaviour is distinct the observer will likely believe it ti be external while if it always happens it will be believed to be internal
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Consensus
Does the individual act the same as others in the same situation
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Consistency
Does the person act the same way over time
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Bias
Prejudiced opinion applied in and unfair way to support or oppose a person or thing
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Fundamental attribution error
The tendency for observers, when analyzing another’s behaviour, to underestimate influence of external factors and overestimate internal factors.
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Self serving bias
The tendency for individuals to attribute their own successes to internal factors while putting blame for failures on external factors.
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Selective perception
The process by which individuals perceive what they want to see based on personal interest, background behaviours, etc.
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Halo effect
5 Draw a general impression about an individual based on a single characteristic Draw a general impression about an individual based on a single characteristic
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Contrast effect
evaluation of a person's characteristics that is affected by comparisons with other people recently encountered
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Projection
Attributing one's own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another.
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Stereotyping
judging someone on the basis of our perception of the group to which that person belongs
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Prejudice
preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
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Values
the ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about what is important that help guide the way you live
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Rokeach value survey
a survey that measures instrumental and terminal values
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Culture
shared beliefs, values, rules, norms and traditions of a group.
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Power distance
Degree to which societies accept the idea that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally
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Individualism vs collectivism
Individualism is the degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups. Collectivism emphasizes a tight social framework
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Masculinity vs femininity
Masculinity is the degree to which the culture favours traditional masculine roles as opposed to viewing men and women as equals. A high femininity rating means the culture sees little differentiation between male and female roles and treats women as the equals of men.
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Uncertainty avoidance
the degree to which people in a country prefer structured over unstructured situations
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long term vs short term orientation
The degree of a societies devotion to traditional values. Short term accepts change better and values here and now
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Indulgence vs restraint
Measures societies devotion to indulgence. Cultures that restraint indulgence need to control the gratification of needs.
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GLOBE dimensions
Assertiveness, Future Orientation, Gender Differentiation, Uncertainty Avoidance, Power Distance, Individualism/Collectivism, in group collectivism, Performance Orientation, Humane Orientation
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Assertiveness
the extent to which a society expects people to be confrontational and competitive as opposed to tender and modest
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Future orientation
the extent to which a society encourages investment in the future, as by planning and saving
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Gender differentiation
extent to which a society maximizes gender role differences
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Uncertainty avoidance
Societies reliance on social norms and procedures to alleviate the unpredictability of future events
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Power distance globe
The extent to which members of a society expect power to be unequally shared
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Individualism vs collectivism globe
The extent to which individuals are encouraged by societal institutions to be integrated into groups within organizations and society
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In group collectivism
Members in a society take pride in membership in small groups. Ex family and close friends
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Performance orientation
Society encourages and rewards group members for performance improvement and excellence.
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Humane orientation
Society encourages and rewards individuals for being fair, generous, caring and kind to others.
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Cultural intelligence provincial
They work best with people of similar background but have difficulty working with those from different background
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Cultural intelligence analyst
They analyze a foreign cultures rules and expectations to figure out how to interact with others
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Cultural intelligence natural
They use intuition rather than systematic study to understand those from other cultural background
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Cultural intelligence ambassador
They communicate convincingly that they fit in, even if they do not know much about the foreign culture
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Cultural intelligence mimic
They control actions and behaviours to match others, even if they do not understand the significance about the cultural cues observed
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Cultural intelligence chameleon
They have high levels of all three CQ components. They could be mistaken as being from the foreign culture.

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