BUS 2090 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Notes
6 Feb 2017
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Lo1 define personality and describe the dispositional, situational, and interactionist approaches to organizational behaviour. Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving: summarizes the personal style way of dealing among your surroundings. Ways that they react to people, situations, and problems. People (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e that (cid:374)ature a(cid:374)d (cid:374)urture are the t(cid:449)o thi(cid:374)gs that (cid:272)reates a (cid:862)perso(cid:374)alit(cid:455)(cid:863: genetics and environment. Personality is one of the important factors in many areas of organizational behaviour including, motivation, attitudes, performances, and leadership. 3 different approach of using the personality test or predicting and understanding organizational behaviour: dispositional approach: Individuals possess stable traits or characteristics that influences their attitudes and behaviours. Basi(cid:272)all(cid:455), the(cid:455)"re saying how a human has a trait to respond to situations in a stable, predictable ways: situational approach: A chara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272) of the orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al setti(cid:374)g i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e people"s attitudes a(cid:374)d behaviour. Organizational setting meaning like rewards and punishments.
