MGNT201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Computer Performance, Heredity, Job Performance
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Job performance = individual attributes x work effort x organisational support. What is personality: the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others, measurable traits a person exhibits, personality traits: enduring (semi-permanent) characteristics that describe an individuals behaviour. The nature-nurture debate: nature (heredity, argues that our genetics determines who we are, determined at birth, stable and unchanging, nurture (environment, our personality is not determined by genetics but by our life experiences, culture, group membership. Eysensk"s big 3: neuroticism/emotional stability, extraversion, psychoticism. Introspectiveness: seriousness, performance interfered with by excitement, easily aroused but restrained and inhibited, preference for solitary vocations, sensitivity to pain, extraversion, toughmindedness. Impulsiveness: tendency to be outgoing, desire for novelty, performance enhanced by excitement, preference for vocations involving contact with other people, tolerance for pain. Low neuroticism: sense of well-being, emotionally stable, easy going: psychoticism, poor concentration, poor memory.