MHR 405 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Presenteeism, Absenteeism, Conscientiousness
12 Dec 2017
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Personality in organizations: personality is the relatively enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics. Trusting, helpful, good-natured, considerate, tolerant, selfless, generous, flexible. Conscientiousness characterizes people who are organized, dependable, goal-focused, thorough, disciplined, methodical, and industrious. People with low conscientiousness tend to be careless, disorganized, and less thorough: agreeableness. This dimension includes the traits of being trusting, helpful, good-natured, considerate, tolerant, selfless, generous, and flexible. People with lo(cid:449) ag(cid:396)eea(cid:271)le(cid:374)ess te(cid:374)d to u(cid:374)(cid:272)oope(cid:396)ati(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)tole(cid:396)a(cid:374)t of othe(cid:396)s" (cid:374)eeds as well as more suspicious and self-focused: neuroticism. Neuroticism characterizes people who tend to be anxious, insecure, self-conscious, depressed, and temperamental. In contrast, people with low neuroticism (high emotional stability) are poised, secure and calm: openness to experience. This dimension is the most complex and has the least agreement among scholars. It generally refers to the extent to which people are imaginative, creative, unconventional, curious, nonconforming, autonomous, and aesthetically perceptive.
