Bandura's Reciprocal Determinism Model

Question 1

The environment, personality can influence one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour across time, yet how you

Answer 1

According to Bandura, personality, environment influence behaviour, yet this is vice versa; how we engage with the environment will affect our perception of the environment, as well as our personality.

Question 2

The strength of influence differs , so its not the perfect way for measuring our thoughts, behaviour, and feelings.

Question 3

Minnesota Twin Study

Answer 3

Relevance to the workplace
- people tend to like/ dislike their job regardless of what they’re doing (basically if they don’t like to work, they won’t like the job, no matter what it is!)
- So our attitudes towards work are more predictive of subsequent job satisfaction than changes in social status or pay of the job.
- Judge et al (2002, 2003); Personality explains16% in variance of job satisfaction, affectivity explains 30% of variance in job satisfaction (whether you feel happy with your job)

Question 4

It’s important to know about the Bandura Reciprocal Determinism Model because..

Answer 4

The broad relationship between personality, the situation/environment, and
behaviour was summarised by Bandura in the Reciprocal Determinism Model

Question 5

How do we ‘use’ personality at work/in organisations?

Answer 5

• job selection process
  > CV screening
  > Assessment
  > Interviews
• promotion suitability (‘leadership traits’)

Question 6

How our environment affects us? Nurture

Answer 6

• Philip Zimbardo
  Stanford Prison Experiment
• Results: putting someone in a situation (certain environment) will cause them to take on certain attitudes and behaviour, and even new mindsets.
  “Nurture”

Question 7

Context can explain why some people turn out the way they do in a certain environment.

Answer 7

• cultural, political, socioeconomic situations

Question 8

Relevance to the workplace; Job Characteristics Model

Answer 8

• Autonomy
• Feedback
• Relatedness (^ Ryan & Deci, 2012)
• Skill Variety, Task identity, task significance

Question 9

If you have a terrible boss, you’re more likely to want to leave your job, thus environmental factors influence our attitudes and behaviours, and personality.

Answer 9

Humphrey et al. (2007); Job dimensions account for 34% of variance in job satisfaction, and 54% of the variance in work overload (more work load, more likely to leave job) ; leadership is also an environmental factor affecting variance in job satisfaction.

Question 10

Study 2: Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks

Answer 10

• Facebook manipulating certain users feed, changing posts, more negative posts lead to

Question 11

Critiques: Reciprocal Determinism Model is again a simplification of environment an explanation of individual differences (in attitudes towards work, behaviours, and performance)*

Answer 11

• attitudes (satisfaction, engagement)
• behaviour (leave, stay)
• performance (high quality/ low quality work results)