IRE260H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Psychopathy, Observational Learning
19 Dec 2017
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Personality: stable set of psychological characteristics that in uence the way an individual interacts w/ his or her environment. Trait activation theory: traits lead to certain behaviours only when the situation makes the need for the trait salient personality in uences people"s behaviour when the situation calls for a particular personality characteristic. Extraversion important for jobs that require interpersonal interaction, sociable, assertive, energetic no correlation besides other jobs. Emotional stability/neuroticism high will have e ective interactions, calm and secure emotional stability, positively correlated neuroticism (acting ? debt collectors) Agreeableness contributes to job performance in jobs that require interaction, involving helping, cooperating, and nurturing others as well as jobs that involve teamwork and cooperation. > doesn"t signi cantly impact jobs, negatively impacts for managers. Conscientiousness important for job performance on most jobs achievement predicts better than intelligence negative correlation b/w intelligence and conscientiousness. Openness to experience important for jobs that involve learning and creativity correlates with academic performance predict training potential.
