Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Spatial Ability, Inductive Reasoning, Simple Math

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Stelian Medianu

Document Summary

Chapter 4 personality, cultural values, and ability. Personality the structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her characteristics patterns of thought, emotions, and behaviours; personality reflects what people are like and creates their social reputation: personality creates people"s social reputations. Traits recurring trends in people"s responses to their environment. Cultural values shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influence the expression of traits: capturing what cultures are like . Ability relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities: the level of a given ability generally limits how much a person can improve, even with the best training in the world. Big five the five major dimensions of personality: consciousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion. Consciousness dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being dependable, reliable, ambitious, hard working, and persevering. Agreeableness dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, and warm.