MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Job Performance, Conscientiousness
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Personality: the relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts with his or her environment: an individual"s personality summarizes his or her personal style of dealing with the world. Personalities consist of a number of dimensions and traits that are determined in a complex way by genetic predisposition and by one"s lt learning history. Personality is relatively stable: it is susceptible to change through adult learning experiences. People have a variety of personality characteristics. Excessive typing of people does not help us to appreciate their unique potential to contribute to an organization. After wwii, the use of personality tests for the selection of military personnel became widespread, and in the 1950s and 60s it became popular in business organizations. As a result, there was a dramatic decrease in personality research and a decline in the.
