Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Positive Affectivity, Ethnocentrism, Future Orientation

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Nancy Annett

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This happened to me because i am dumb: openness to experience, curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, beneficial to job. What are taxonomies can be used to describe cultural values: (ofstede"s taxonomy of cultural values of members of society, culture-shared values, beliefs, motives, identities from common experiences, passed along generations, certain cultures put higher value on certain traits. Individualism-collectivism: culture has a loosely knot social framework (individualism) or a tight social framework (collectivism, ex. Your own interest vs. the communities interest: power distance, culture has a equal power distribution (low) or an unequal power distribution (high, ex. Police, psychologists: quantitative, two types of mathematical capabilities, number facility-performing basic math operations quickly and correctly, mathematical reasoning-selecting the right formula to solve a problem, ex. Financial managers, mathematical technicians: reasoning, diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using rules, problem sensitivity-understanding there is a problem, deductive reasoning-applying rules to problems, inductive reasoning-combining information to form conclusions, originality-developing new ideas, ex.