ADM 2336 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Career Development, Reinforcement
3 Feb 2012
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The relatively stable set oh psychological characteristics that influence the way an individual interacts with his or her environment and how he or she feels, thinks, and behaves. Personality has a long history in organizational behaviour. Dispositional: individual dispositions and personality, individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways. Situational: characteristics of the organizational setting, such as rewards and punishment, influence people"s feelings, attitudes, and behaviour. Interactionist (between situation and people"s disposition): to predict and understand ob, one must know something about an individual"s personality and the setting in which he or she works. Situations can be described as being either weak" or strong". In weak situations, roles are loosely defined, there are few rules and weak reinforcement and punishment contingencies. Personality has the strongest effect in weak situations (ex. Some personality characteristics are useful in certain organizational situations. The five factor model of personality exhibit 2. 1 p. 42. Extraversion: jobs that require interpersonal interaction ex.
