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Question 1

What is personality?

Answer 1

The pattern of relatively enduring ways in which a person feels, thinks and behaves.
- develops over a persons lifetime
- generally stable in the context of work
- can influence career choice, job satisfaction, stress, leadership, and even performance

Question 2

What are the four approaches to information gathering?

Answer 2

• thinking
• feeling
• sensing
• intuitive

Question 3

What are issues with personality testing? Issues with the tests, organizational issues and test-taker issues>

Answer 3

Issues with the tests: reliability and validity
Organizational issues: use for hiring “perfect” employee
Test-taker issues: “gaming” the test

Question 4

What are the ethics challenge corporate social responsibilities?

Answer 4

level 1: make a profit
level 2: obey the law
level 3: are ethical in their practices
level 4: are good corporate citizens