Organizational Behavior: Chapter 5
Big Five
Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to experience.
approach-avoidance framework
Framework organizes traits and may help explain how they predict work behavior
______ is the most dominant factor in personality
Heredity
MBTI
Myers-briggs type indicator
Two frameworks
Situation Strength Trait Activation
Values
are the foundation for attitudes, motivation, and behavior
Personality traits
characteristics that describe and individual's behavior.
Approach motivation
our attention to positive stimuli
Avoidance motivation
our aversion to negative stimuli
The effect of particular traits on organization behavior depends on the ______
situation
Value Systems The hierarchy tends to be relatively __________
stable
self-monitoring
the ability to adjust oneself to a situation based on the context of the situation.
personality
the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others.
Situation strength theory
the way personality translates into behavior depends on the strength of the situation
Analyze situation strength in terms of
Clarity Consistency Constraints Consequences
Implications for Managers
Consider screening job candidates for high conscientiousness Use MBTI in training and development to help employees better understand themselves and team members, and facilitate communication Evaluate your employees' jobs, their work groups, and your organization to determine the optimal personality fit Take into account employees' situational factors when evaluating their observable personality traits, and lower the situation strength to better ascertain personality characteristics Take into consideration people's different cultures
Value Systems Represent a prioritizing of individual values by: (2)
Content - importance to the individual Intensity - relative importance with other values
Two frameworks for assessing culture:
Hofstede GLOBE
Proactive personality
Identifies opportunities, shows initiative, takes action, and perseveres
Dominant Personality Frameworks Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Individuals are classified as: Extroverted or Introverted (E/I) Sensing or Intuitive (S/N) Thinking or Feeling (T/F) Judging or Perceiving (J/P)
Holland's Hexagon
Job satisfaction and turnover depend on congruency between personality and task People in jobs congruent with their personality should be more satisfied and less likely to voluntarily resign than people in incongruent tasks
Dark triad
Machiavelllianism, narcissism, psychopathy
Hofstede's Framework for Assessing Cultures
Power Distance Individualism vs. Collectivism Masculinity vs. Femininity Uncertainty Avoidance Long-term vs. Short-term Orientation
Values Influence perception and _______ objectivity
cloud
Core-self Evaluation
performance of positive individuals, vs. negative and how the differences allows for positives to be more effective and high achieving.
Trait activation theory
predicts that some situations, events, or interventions "activate" a trait more than others
Values
represent basic, enduring 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"
