BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Job Performance, Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness
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Important for job performance on most jobs given the tendency towards hard work and achievement: openness to experience. Important for jobs involve learning and creativity given the tendency to be intellectual, curious, and imaginative and have broad interests. Locus of control: a set of beliefs about whether one"s behaviour is controlled mainly by internal or external factors. Internals believe that the opportunity to control their own behaviour resides within themselves: externals believe that external forces dictates their behaviour (most of the time students believe this) The internal/external locus of control continuum: note: not high or low locus of control (internal or external is correct) Sometimes it is a combination of internal and external locus of control. Self-monitoring (impression management: the extent to which people observe and regulate how they appear and behave in social settings and relationships, high self-monitors take great care to observe and control the images that they project.
