MGHB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Job Satisfaction, Conscientiousness, Normative Social Influence
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Personality: the relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts with his or her environment and how he or she feels, thinks, and behaves. Summaries personal style or dealing with words. Reflect in distinctive ways that they react to people, situations and problems. Determined in a complex way be genetic predisposition a(cid:374)d (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:374)e"s long-term learning history. Personality and organizational behavior: dispositional approach: individuals possess stable traits or characteristic that influence their attitudes and behaviors. Individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways: situational approach: chara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s of the orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374) setti(cid:374)g i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e people"s attitudes and behavior. Re(cid:449)ards a(cid:374)d pu(cid:374)ish(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e people"s attitudes, feeli(cid:374)g a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. Situational factors also determine job satisfaction and other work-related attitudes. Interactionist approach: i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals" attitudes a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior are a fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of (cid:271)oth dispositions and the situation. Trait activation theory: traits lead to certain behaviors only when the situation makes the need for the trait salient.
