ID & Selection Flashcards
Individual differences
Traits or other characteristics by which individuals may be distinguished from one another.
ID : Personality
The combo of stable physical, behavioral and mental characteristics
Extroversion
Outgoing, talkative, sociable, assertive
Beneficial if the job involves interpersonal interaction and stronger predictor of job performance than agreeableness.
Agreeableness
Trusting, goodnatured, cooperative, softhearted
More likely to stay with their jobs
Conscientiousness
Dependable, responsible, achievement-oriented, persistent. Strongest and most positive effects on job performance.
Emotional Stability
relaxed, secure, unworried, less likely to experience negative emotions under pressure, higher job performance, fewer counter productive work behaviors, more organizational citizenship behaviors
Openness to experience
Intellectual, imaginative, curious, broadminded
Intelligence
The ability to learn from experience to reason abstractly, and to adapt to the surrounding environment
Theory of General Intelligence
Charles Spearman invented factor analysis which analyzes correlations among tests and discovered a single general factor named “g”
Theory of multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner proposed that their are 8 different constructs of intelligence, believes that these abilities could be isolated and come form different areas of the brain.
Theory of Successful Intelligence
Exists in set and meaningful goals in one life considering cultural context. People make the most of their strengths and weaknesses.
Three key abilities: Creative, Analytical, Practical Intelligences
Creative Intelligence
Imaginative and innovative problem solving
Analytical Intelligence
Academic problem solving and computation
Practical Intelligence
Street smarts and common sense
Core self evaluation
broad personality trait comprised of 4 narrow and positive individual traits
generalized self efficacy
the belief about your chances of successfully accomplishing a task
Self esteem
a general belief about your self worth, stable across your lifetime but can be improved, best to apply yourself to areas or goals that are important to you. Those things will will be your highest motivation and you’ll work harder.
Locus of Control
How much does someone take personal responsibility for their behaviors and its consequences.
External LOC
things happen to me
i blame others
i cant control the future
more anxious
earn less, receive smaller raises
less motivated by incentives
Internal LOC
i can make things happen
i can determine my future
i accept personal responsibility for my failures
higher motivation
higher expectations
exert more effort
Emotional Intelligence
the ability to monitor ones own emotions and those of others to discriminate among them.
5 aspects of Emotional Intelligence
- self-awareness (knowledge of one’s strengths and weaknesses),
- self-regulation (the ability to keep disruptive emotions in check),
- self-motivation (how to motivate oneself and persevere in the
face of obstacles), - empathy (the ability to sense and read emotions in others), and
- social skills (the ability to manage the emotions of other people).
Benefits/Drawbacks of EI
- Better social relationships.
- Greater well-being.
- Increased satisfaction.
- No clear link to improved job performance.
- Research remains unclear.
Emotions
complex, relatively brief responses aimed at a particular person, info, event.
Can change someone’s psychological or physiological states.
Positive and Negative or mixed emotions.
Past, Present, Future
