Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness, Future Orientation

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

Document Summary

Personality: structures and propensiies inside a person that explain his/her characterisic paterns of thought, emoion, and behaviour. Inluences how a person feels, thinks, and behaves/interacts w/ environment. Conscieniousness: dependable, hardworking vs lazy, careless, eg: i pay atenion to details. Agreeableness: kind, helpful vs selish, criical, eg: i make people feel @ ease. Neuroicism/emoional stability: nervous, emoional vs calm, secure, eg: i"m easily bothered by things. Openness to experience: creaive, imaginaive vs convenional, comforing, eg: i enjoy hearing new ideas. Extroversion: talkaive, sociable vs quiet, shy, eg: i make friends easily. Has the biggest inluence on job performance of any of big 5. Conscieniousness individuals prioriize accomplishment striving: strong desire to accomplish task-related goals, want to do well in task performance. Studies show that: childhood conscieniousness raings correlated w/ career success 5 decades later predict career success, conscienious salespeople set higher sales goals for themselves. Negaively related to mortality, including: death from injuries, death from cardiovascular disease, death from cancer.