BU247 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Job Satisfaction, Conscientiousness, Job Performance
Document Summary
Learning is critical for effective ob; for organizations to remain competitive in today"s changing environment, worker learning must be continuous and life-long. While learning is necessary for knowledge, skills, and behaviours, studies in ob show that behaviour is also a function of personalities. Personality: relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way someone interacts with the environment. Someone"s personality summarizes their personal style of dealing with the world reflected in the distinctive way that we react to people, situations, and problems. Personality consists of many dimensions and traits that are determined in a complex way by genetic predisposition and by long-term learning history relatively stable, but can change. There is a significant amount of variability in personality, and people vary in how variable they are. Using personality in hiring is not straightforward there are a lot of issues to consider.
