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1: Personality and Individual Differences Flashcards

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Individual Difference

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The impact of personal characteristics on what people think, feel, and do

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Competencies

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Knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for performing different jobs, functions, or tasks

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12 competencies most sought by employers

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  1. Critical thinking/problem solving
  2. Creativity/innovation
  3. Leadership
  4. Teamwork/collaboration
  5. Written communications
  6. Lifelong learning pursuit
  7. IT application
  8. Oral communication
  9. Ethics/social responsibility
  10. Diversity
  11. English language (spoken)
  12. Writing in English
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Ways for employees to develop competencies:

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  • Following career development channels
  • Taking course
  • Participate in volunteer work
  • Skills training programs
  • Finding coaches or mentors
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Ways for employers to develop competencies:

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  • On-job skills training
  • Coaching or mentoring programs
  • College courses
  • Association memberships or access to learning sites
  • Job rotation
  • Shadow experiences
  • Leadership development programs
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Competency Model

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A comprehensive way to identify the groups of competencies associated with organizational performance

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Emotions

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Strong feelings with a short duration

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Emotional contagion

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The capacity to spread emotions, mood, and affect

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Mood

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Feelings made up of multiple emotions without a clear onset

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Displayed emotions, felt emotions

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Emotions that are visible, emotions that an employee actually feels

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Emotional labor

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When there is a gap between what an employee feels and what is appropriate to display at work

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Emotional intelligence/ EQ

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The capacity to be aware of one’s own emotions and the emotions of others, manage emotions, and respond to emotions in an appropriate way

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Personality

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A set of individual characteristics that are consistent over time

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Heredity perspective

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States that people are born with a particular set of personality traits and preferences

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Environment perspective

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Supports the notion that personality develops over time and is heavily influenced by the environment

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Big 5 personality types

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  1. Extraversion
  2. Agreeableness
  3. Conscientiousness
  4. Emotional stability
  5. Openness to experience
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  1. Extraversion
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Outgoing, sociable, talkative, assertive, and active

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  1. Agreeableness
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Cooperative, good natured, tolerant, and trusting

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  1. Conscientiousness
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Responsible, dependable, achievement focused, and perseverance

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  1. Emotional stability
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Anxious, worried, depressed, insecure

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  1. Openness to experience
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Curious, flexible, original, and intelligent

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) dimensions:

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  1. Introversion (I) - Extraversion (E)
  2. Sensing (S) - Intuiting (N)
  3. Thinking (T) - Feeling (F)
  4. Judging (J) - Perceiving (P)
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  1. Introversion (I) - Extraversion (E)
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Indicates to what extent someone is energized by the internal world or the external world

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  1. Sensing (S) - Intuiting (I)
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Explains how someone prefers to process information. Sensing prefer concrete details, Intuiting us ‘gut instinct’

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  1. Thinking (T) - Feeling (F)
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Describes how someone makes decisions, Thinking focuses on facts and ideas, Feeling focuses on people and harmony

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  1. Judging (J) - Perceiving (P)
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Judging have high need for closure in tasks and will push to complete them on time, Perceiving view deadlines as more flexible

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Attitude

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Attributed to someone based on beliefs, feelings, and actions - is usually subject to change based on experience

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Self-efficacy

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Confidence that someone experiences relative to a particular task

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Machiavellianism

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Describes attitude toward people as objects - based on the character from The Prince

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Locus of Control

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The extent to which someone believes that they are in control of their environment - Internal (individual control)/External (outside events control)

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Self-monitoring

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The ability of an individual to adjust their behavior based on environment in which they operate

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GRIT equation

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  1. Talent * effort = skill
  2. Skill * effort = achievement
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Personality traits

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One major individual difference that has been shown to affect behavior and performance at work

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Linguistic style

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An individual difference that may affect behavior at work

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Needs

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Universal for all individuals, people are motivated by different kinds of needs

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Grit

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An individual difference that relates to perseverance and drive to succeed

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