Five Personality Dimensions
What are the Five Personality Dimensions?
Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, and Extraversion.
What are the main two types of personality taxonomies?
Myers-Briggs and RIASEC model.
What is the Definition of Personality
Personality refers to the structures and propensities inside people that explain their characteristic patterns of thought emotions and behaviors.
EXP define in your own words
What are the components to Creative Thought?
Cognitive Ability and Openness to Experience
In regard to which orientation does the culture stress values that are more past/present oriented?
Short-term
What term has the biggest influence on job performance?
Conscientiousness
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
What is the difference between Personality and Traits?
Personality is patterns of thought, emotion and behavior.
traits are regularities/ trends in people's responses to given environments.
EXP: Give an example of a trait.
What is the difference between internal and external locus of control?
External locus of control focuses on the concept that everything that happens because of luck.
Internal locus of control focuses on the idea that everything happens because of one's own behavior and actions.
What is the difference between the masculine and feminine side of the cultural values?
-The culture values the stereotypical male traits such as assertiveness and the gain of both money and assets.
-The feminine cultural values are stereotypical in the sense that they value women caring for others as well as quality of life.
How do you describe Agreeableness in a work place?
Agreeableness is described as showing interest, helping fellow coworkers with problems, and usually caring about fellow employees
What four types of preferences does the Myer-Briggs type indicator evaluate?
Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs Intuition, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs Perceiving.
What kind of correlation does Personality (specifically Conscientiousness) have to Job Performance?
Conscientiousness has a moderate correlation (yellow arrow)
For another point, how does it correlate to Organizational commitment?
Extraverted employees tend to be high in what's called _____ (Tendency that to experience pleasant engaging moods)
Positive Affectivity
Where is uncertainty avoidance high?
Japan, Russia, and France
What's the difference between Extraversion and Neuroticism?
Extraversion: Words like Positive, Pleased, Happy, Calm, etc.
Neuroticism: Words like Negative, Grouchy, Sad, Sluggish Etc.
Working with data, working with people, working with things, and working with ideas.
What is the main goal of Project GLOBE?
To examine the impact of culture on the effectiveness of various leader attributes, behaviors and practices
What is the acronym for the Big 5 Taxonomy?
CANOE or OCEAN
What is collectivism?
A tight social framework where its members care for one another and are loyal to it.
How could you describe Conscientiousness and openness?
Conscientiousness is like following a recipe, rules or a format for the ideal outcome, while Openness is like trying random ingredients or having a creative way to get the same outcome.
What are the four other personality traits that affect work behavior?
Authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, Proactive personality, and Self-monitoring.
What are the cultural values mentioned in BOTH Project GLOBE and Hofstede's model?
Power Distance and Uncertainty Avoidance
what gets wetter as it drys?
A towel.
Extra point: what is this question an example of?
In what aspect of cultural values prefers that powers be distributed uniformly where possible and in a more egalitarian way?
Low- power distance