MHR 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canoe.Com, Distributive Justice, Agreeableness
15 Sep 2017
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Employee motivation: internal forces that affect a person"s voluntary choice of behaviour, direction - goals, intensity - efforts, persistence - continuing effort. Employee ability: aptitudes and learned capabilities required to successfully complete a task. Situational factors: environmental conditions beyond the individual"s short-term control that constrain or facilitate behaviour, constraints - time, budget, facilities, cues, signs of nearby hazards. Personality: relatively enduring patter of thoughts, emotions and behaviours that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics, in uenced by nature - hereditary, in uence by nurture - socialization and learning. Five factor personality model (canoe: conscientiousness - organization, dependable, agreeableness - trusting, helpful, exible, neuroticism - anxious, self-conscious, openness to experience - creative, nonconforming, extraversion - outgoing, talkative, energetic. Ethical principles: utilitarianism - greatest good for the greatest number of people, individual rights - fundamental entitlements in society, distributive justice - people who are similar should receive similar beliefs.
