BUS 272 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Individualism, Absenteeism, Big Five Personality Traits

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 272
• Professor: Shawn Ireland

Document Summary

Intensity the amount of effort allocated to the goal. Role clarity employee has clear role perception when they understand their duties, employee understand the priority of their various tasks and performance expectations and to understand the preferred behaviours or procedures: situational factors. Individual behaviour and performance depend on the situation: environmental cues that guide employee behaviour. For example: hazards are identified, it is a situational factor, but so are the barriers and warning signs that cue the employee to avoid this hazard. Types of individual behaviour: task performance, goal directed behaviours under the individual control that support organizational objectives. Adaptability how well employee responds, copes with new job patterns. Personality: relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions and behaviours that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristic. Nature vs nurture: nature refers to our genetic or hereditary origins the genes that we inherit from our parents.