[MGT 304] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (40 pages long!)

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 304
• Professor: Linda Neider

Document Summary

Personality: demographic characteristics, age, sex, race, competency characteristics, ability, aptitude, skills, psychological characteristics, values, attitudes, traits. The big five (ocean: openness: being curious, original, intellectual, creative, open to new ideas, conscientiousness: being organized, systematic, punctual, dependable, extraversion: being outgoing, talkative, sociable, able to enjoy social situations, agreeableness: being affable, tolerant, sensitive, trusting, kind, warm, neuroticism: being anxious, irritable, temperamental, moody. Twice as likely to experience heart disease: locus of control, internal perceive direct links between effort and performance, are more successful in careers (hold higher level jobs, more promotions, external: what happens is a matter of destiny, you don"t have control. Internal causes: individual is responsible (individual violates the rule: external causes: person has no control over the situation (boss is cruel which leads to violating rule, actions caused by internal or external factors depending on, consensus how are other people behaving in that situation, consistency, distinctiveness.