MGT 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Trait Theory, Social Skills, Job Performance
27 Oct 2020
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Personality: the unique combination of emotional, thought and behavioural patters that affects how a person reacts and interacts with each other. Preference for gathering data (sensing or intuitive); Preference for decision making (feeling or thinking); Styles of making decisions (perceptive or judgemental); The big five model consists of ve personality traits: Research shows that certain organisational characteristics such as extroversion show correlations to the degree of effectiveness as a manager, as these characteristics are necessary for effective performance. Machiavellian: a measure of the degree to which people pragmatic , maintain emotional distance and believe that ends can justify means. Self-esteem: an individual"s degree of like or dislike for himself or herself. Self-monitoring: a personality trait that measures an individual"s ability to adjust his or her behaviour to external, situational factors. Research shoes that high self-minters tend to engage in impression management: individuals attempt to control the impression others form of them.
