Personality
The sum of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others
What is personality?
Outgoing, sociable, and assertive individuals
What is extraverted?
Ranking values in terms of intensity
What is a value system?
An ongoing cross-cultural investigation of leadership and national culture.
What is GLOBE?
It proposes that the way personality translates into behavior depends on the strength of the situation.
What is situation strength theory?
Factors determined at conception
Relies on unconscious processes and looks at the "big picture"
What is intuitive?
To preferable modes of behavior, or means of achieving the terminal values Two different types of values
What is instrumental values?
The degree to which people in a country prefer structured over unstructured situations
What is uncertainty avoidance?
Identifies opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs, compared to others who generally react to situations.
What is a proactive personality?
57 percent of all large US companies use them
What is a personality assessment?
Uses reason and logic to handle problems
What is thinking?
Represent basic convictions that "a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end-state of existence."
What are values?
One of the most widely referenced approaches for analyzing variations among cultures
Hofstede’s Framework
An individual’s ability to adjust behavior to external, situational factors.
What is self-monitoring?
People in individualistic countries like the United States and Australia trend toward this
What is self-enhancement?
Understanding this helps us predict our behaviour
What is personality?
The goals a person would like to achieve during a lifetime
What desirable end-states?
These are passed down through generations and they vary by cultures because they are learned
What are values?
Bottom-lined conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person
What are Core Self-Evaluations (CSEs)?
The most common means of measuring personality
What is self-reporting?
The most widely used personality-assessment instrument in the world
What is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator?
Prosperity and economic success, freedom, health and well-being, world peace, and meaning in life.
What is a terminal value?
The country with the highest femininity rank
Clarity, consistency, constraints, and consequences
What are the components of situation strength?