Chapter 5 Flashcards
define the term personality
one’s total sum of behaviours, reactions, and interactions with others.
Dynamic organization of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.
The heredity approach
argues that the ultimate explanation of an individual’s personality is the molecular structure of the genes, located in the chromosomes. Strong individual differences in dependability remain; everyone tends to change by about the same amount, so their rank order stays roughly t
There are two main models which recognise and organise traits:
- The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator
2. Big Five Model
The Myers- Briggs Type Indicator
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the most common personality-assessment tool. It’s a test which consists of 100 questions related to behaviours, feelings, and attitudes in different situations at situations. After doing the test, a person can be classified to the following groups:
- Extraverted or introverted – extraverted types are gregarious, social, assertive, outgoing
- Sensing or intuitive – sensing types like routine, are practical-oriented, pay attention to details
- Thinking or feeling – thinking types are logical and analytical when facing problems
- Judging or perceiving – judging types like the ordered, structured world, need for control
Disadvantages of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator model
a person must be classified either to one type or another
–cannot be in-between the types, and do not reflect job performance.
+ Can be a valueable tool for increasing self-awarness and career guiding.
- It is unreleated to job performance and therefore not useable for selection.
- Lack of supporting evidence.
Business success: Important and Less important
Important: persistence, attention to detail, efficiency, analystical skills and setting high standards.
Less important: Strong oral communication, teamwork, flexibility, enthusiasm, listening skills.
Conscientious people
life longer etc., happier, Still, probably because they’re so organized and structured, conscientious people don’t adapt as well to changing contexts, because focused on performing and not creative.
Emotional-stability and Extraverts
strongly related to life satisfaction, job satisfaction and low stress levels. Extraverts happier in jobs and lives. And they are risk taking, impulsive.
Agreeableness
slightly happier, everything is good and relationships to, but downside is that they have lower levels of career success (especially earnings).
Core-self evaluation
level to which one likes or dislikes himself, whether he thinks he is effective, able to perform tasks and have control over his surrounding. People with positive core-self evaluation usually perform at work better and high job satisfaction. Sometimes overconfident but they are incompetent.
Machiavellianism
level of one’s being rational & practical, goal-oriented, very good in bargaining, keeping distance with showing (experiencing) emotions, thinking that ends justify means. People with high level of Machiavellianism tend to manipulate others, appear as very persuasive, and are good in negotiations. Not very happy with job.
Narcissism
people who are high in narcissism level are good leaders, but are perceived by others as arrogant – they want the appreciation, admiration, they may think they are superior.
Self-monitoring
one’s ability to adjust himself and his behaviour to external world, various environmental circumstances. People with high level of self-monitoring are more responsive to external signs, but also their behaviour differs from situation to situation – they tend to behave differently when being in a public and differently in private. High self-monitoring means better job performance than low self-monitoring. Low self-monitoring: They tend to display their true dispositions and attitudes in every situation; hence, there is high behavioral consistency between who they are and what they do.
Risk taking
willingness to accept changes and take risks. Managers with high risk-taking level make decisions faster with less information. It makes sense to recognize these differences and even consider aligning them with specific job demands.
Type A personality
people who are highly competitive, always want to achieve more, be more efficient, they can be aggressive in pursuing their goals, even if it takes being against other people/difficulties. In US type A is associated positively, with ambition, success. Type B personality is the opposite – people with type B never hurry with anything, can be relaxed without guilt. Type A personalities do better during work interviews, are faster workers, work long hours, usually work under stress and their actions are more predictable.
