Chapter 2 - Personality and Values Flashcards
Individual behaviour
influenced by motivation, ability, role perceptions and situational factors (MARS)
Motivation
consists of internal forces that affect the direction, intensity, and persistence of a person’s voluntary choice of behaviour
Ability
includes natural aptitudes and learned capabilities required to complete a task
Role perceptions
person’s beliefs about what behaviors are appropriate in a situation
Situational fact
environmental conditions that contain or facilitate employee behavior and performance
Five types of individual behavior in organisations
Task performance Organisational citizenship behaviors Counterproductive work behaviors Joining and studying Maintaining work attendance - minimizing absenteeism
Personality
relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions and behaviors that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes of those characteristics
Five factor personality model
Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism (emotional) Openness to experience Extroversion
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Another set of traits that represents how people prefer to perceive and judge information
Resilience
positive adaption after a negative event
Self-efficacy
a person’s belief that he or she can successfully complete the task
Behavioural flexibility and adaptability
individual’s ability to be open to the present movement and to adapt their behaviors as needed
The Dark Triad
Machiavellianism - comfortable getting more than deserved, deceit natural and acceptable
Narcissism - extreme self- aggrandizement
Psychopathy - lack of concern for people and rules
Values
stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our preferences for outcomes or courses of action in a variety of siuations
Values influence behavior when:
1) we can think of specific reasons for doing so
2) the situation supports those values
3) we actively think about them
