MGT 304- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 78 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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The (cid:862)right tuff(cid:863) at the (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g ti(cid:373)e: mark pincus, founder and ceo of zynga, fired himself in 2013, founders as ceos, most do not have personality needed for further corporate success. What is personality: regularities in feeling, thought, and action that are characteristic of an individual. The role of heredity: occupational choice, motivation. Myers-briggs type indicator (mbti: most-often administered personality test. Introversion vs. extraversion: sensing vs. intuition, thinking vs. feeling. Mbti: limitations, limited support for validity and reliability, uses, training and classroom settings, conflict resolution, team building. Psychological capital: efficacy: belief in oneself, optimism: being positive, hope: seeing the pathways to the future, resilie(cid:374)(cid:272)y: a(cid:271)ility to (cid:862)(cid:271)ou(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k(cid:863) Affective events theory: an organizing framework: the work environment and events trigger emotional reactions (positive and negative) Neuroscience: attempts to understand what happens in the brain when attitudes such as job satisfaction are experienced by people in organizations, application: mirror neurons, ethical concerns.
