Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Extraversion And Introversion, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Matt Mc Larnon

Document Summary

Personality and learning: personality: the relatively stable set of psychological characteristic that, dispositional approach influences the way an individual interacts with his or her environment, individuals possess stable traits or characteristics that influence their attitudes and behaviours, basically, individuals are predisposed to behave in certain ways, came about in the 1950s 60s, but research was inconsistent in proving that personality was a predictor of organizational behaviour and job performance, this led to , situational approach, characteristics of the organizational setting, such as reward and punishment, influence people"s feelings, attitudes, and behaviour, debate between these two approaches: person situation debate, which led to a third approach: Interactionist approach: organizational behaviour is a function of both dispositions and the situation, to predict and understand organizational behaviour, one must know something about an individual"s personality and the setting in which he or she works, widely accepted perspective within ob, the five factor model of personality (ffm, big five dimensions: