BU288 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Negative Affectivity, Normative Social Influence, Positive Affectivity
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Lo2. 1 define personality and discuss its general role in influencing organizational behaviour. Personality the relatively stable (same even the time flies) set of psychological characteristics that distinguish one person from another. Personality influences the way an individual interacts with her or her environment and how they feel, think and behave. Personality consists of a number of dimensions and traits that are determined in a complex way by genetic predisposition and by one"s long-term learning history (experiment). Lo2. 2 describe the dispositional, situational, and interactionist approaches to organizational behaviour and trait activation theory. The dispositional approach behaviour is driven by individual dispositions and personality. Individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways based on their personality. The situational approach behaviour is driven by characteristics of the organizational setting (e. g. , rewards and punishment) The interactionist approach behaviour is driven by both dispositions and the situation (i. e. , personality and work setting together). This is the most widely accepted approach to organizational behaviour.
