MGMT1135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Predictive Validity, Femininity, Collectivism
Week 2 - Individual Behaviour, Personality and Values
Intelligence
1. Definition:
- Acquired cognitive skills and knowledge available to a person at a particular point
in time
- Acquired during development
- Stored/retrieved by biological organism
- Genetic, biological and environmental determinants.
2. Measurement
- Verbal, numerical, reasoning, deductive, spatial
3. Pragmatist's view
- Intelligence is a phenotypic behavioural trait
→ observable characteristic of a biological organism
4. Correlates
a. Educational achievement
b. Organizational achievement
c. Scores on general intelligence test
5. Problems
a. Constantly changing environment that may affect development.
b. Opportunity is not equal amongst all.
Personality
1. Definition:
- Combination of traits that classifies individual’s behaviour
- Distinguish personal characteristics that is relatively stable.
2. Cardinal
- Dominates whole life
3. Central
- General characteristics (intelligent, honest, shy)
4. Secondary
- Attitudes / Preference
5. Origin
- Nature - Genetics
- Nuture - Life experience
Five Traits of Personality - OCEAN
1. Openness to Experience - Tendency to diversity
2. Conscientious - Tendency to plan and perform and show self-discipline
3. Extraversion - Tendency to be have positive emotions and energy
4. Agreeableness - Tendency to cooperate
5. Neuroticism - Tendency to negative moods
*note→ conscientiousness and emotional stability→ related to job performance.
openness to experience and extraversion → related to training performance.
HEXACO Model - Honesty, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness,
Open to Experience
Meyers-Briggs type inventory face
- Lacks reliability
- Predictive validity
- 2.5 million emplotyees
- 89% use it for hiring, understand employees
Integrity Test
- Measure applicant tendency towards counter-productive job behaviour (drinking, drug,
etc)
- Predict job and training performance
Others
1. Age
2. Education
- No of years
3. Biographical Data
- Past life experience, education, hobbies
4. Job Experience
-No of years experience on similar job
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Values
1. Definition:
- Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct is personally or socially
preferable.
2. Value System
- Hierarchical ranking of individual’s values.
- Relatively stable and enduring
- Personal, shared or organizational values
- Source: Friends, Family, Religion, Personal experience, Society, Social Media
3. Values and Personality Traits
- Values (what we ought to do)
- Personality traits (what we tend to do)
4. Importance for Organizations
- Foundations of attitudes and motivation
- Influence perceptions and behaviour
5. Schwartz’s Values Model
a. Openness to change - motivation to pursue
b. Conservation - motivation to preserve status quo
c. Self-enhancement - motivated by self-interest
d. Self-transcendence - motivation to promote welfare of others
Document Summary
Acquired cognitive skills and knowledge available to a person at a particular point. Week 2 - individual behaviour, personality and values. Genetic, biological and environmental determinants: measurement, pragmatist"s view. Observable characteristic of a biological organism: correlates, educational achievement, organizational achievement, scores on general intelligence test, constantly changing environment that may affect development, opportunity is not equal amongst all. Combination of traits that classifies individual"s behaviour. Distinguish personal characteristics that is relatively stable. General characteristics (intelligent, honest, shy: problems. *note conscientiousness and emotional stability related to job performance. openness to experience and extraversion related to training performance. Hexaco model - h onesty, e motionality, e xtraversion, a greeableness, c onscientiousness, Measure applicant tendency towards counter-productive job behaviour (drinking, drug, Predict job and training performance: age, education. No of years: biographical data, job experience. No of years experience on similar job. Basic convictions that a specific mode of conduct is personally or socially. Source: friends, family, religion, personal experience, society, social media.
