Agreeableness
Big 5 personality trait. The person's ability to get along with others. They are considerate, friendly, helpful, and willing to compromise their interests.
Anticipatory emotions
refer to the emotions that individual's believe they will feel after achievement or failure of reaching their goal.
Attitudes
are relatively lasting feelings, belifs, and behavioral tendenceis aimed at specific people, groups, ideas, issues, or objects. Attitudes reflect a person's background and experiences. Attitudes are important for 3 reasons: 1) relatively stable over time, 2) people hold attitudes that are directed toward some object, and 3) attitudes influence our behavior.
Collectivism
the tendency of people to emphasize their belonging to groups and to look after each other in exchange for loyalty. Usually involves emotional dependence of the individual on groups, organizations, and institutions. Sense of belonging and "we" versus "I" in relationships.
Conscientiousness
Big 5 personality trait. Concerned with self-discipline, acting responsibility, and directing our behavior. Tend to focus on a few key goals and are likely to be organized, reliable, careful, thorough, responsible and self-disciplined.
Emotional intelligence
refers to how well an individual handles oneself and others rather than how smart or how capable the individual is in terms of technical skills. Includes the attributes of self-awareness, social empathy, self-motivation and social skills.
Emotional stability
Big 5 personality trait. The degree to which a person is calm, secure, and free from persistent negative feelings. People who are emotionally stable are relaxed, poised, slow to show anger, handle crises well, resilient, and secure in their interpersonal dealing with others. Less emotionally stable are more excitable, insecure in their dealings with others, reactive and subject to extreme swings of moods.
Emotions
complex patterns of feelings toward an object or person. The more emotions that are positive, the more we form positive attitudes toward the organization.
External locus of control
People with high external locus of control believe that chance, fate, or other people primarily determine what happens to them.
Extraversion
Big 5 personality trait. The degree to which a person seeks the company of others. Extraverts enjoy being with other people, are full of energy, and often experience positive emotions.
Gender role orientation
the extent to which a society reinforces, or does not reinforce, traditional notions of masculinity versus femininity. A society is called masculine when gender roles are clearly distinct (Japan, Italy, Mexico). A society is called feminine when gender roles overlap (Denmark, Costa Rica)
Goal
Refers to what an individual is trying to accomplish. Goal is your purpose or intent.
Hope
involves a person's mental willpower (determination) and way power (roadmap) to achieve goals. Simply wishing for something isn't enough, a person must have the means to make it happen. However, all the knowledge and skills needed to solve a problem won't help if the person doesn't have the willpower to do so.
Individual Differences
are the personal attributes that vary from one person to another. May be physical, psychological, or emotional
Individualism
is the tendency of people to look after themselves and immediate families. A culture high on individualism emphasizes individual initiative, decision making, and achievement.
Internal locus of control
People with high internal locus of control believe that their own behavior and actions primarily, but not necessarily totally, determine many of the events in their lives.
Job satisfaction
reflects the extent to which people find fulfillment in their work. Job satisfaction has been linked to employees staying on the job and low job turnover.
Locus of control
is the extent to which individuals believe that they can control events affecting them.
Long-term orientation
the extent to which the society embraces the virtues oriented toward future rewards. A long-term orientation ranking indicates that the society prescribes to the values of sustained commitments, perseverance, and thrift (China, India) A short-term orientation stands for societies that expect and reward quick results, view leisure time as important, have little respect for old time traditions and reward the risk-taking and adaptability exhibited by entrepreneurs (Canada, US).
Openness
Big 5 personality trait. Describes imagination and creativity. People with high openness are willing to listen to new ideas, have vivid imaginations, appreciate art and beauty, prefer variety to routine, and change their own ideas, beliefs and assumptions in response to new information.
Organizational commitment
influences whether a person stays on the job. Is the strength of an employee's involvement in the organization and identification with it.
Personality
represents the overall profile or combination of stable psychological attributes that capture the unique nature of a person. Combines physical and mental characteristics that reflect how a person looks, thinks, acts, and feels.
Personality trait
refers to the basic components of personality. Big Five personality traits are: emotional stability, agreeableness, extroversion, conscientiousness, and openness.
Power distance
the extent to which people in a socity accept status and power inequalities as a normal and functional aspect of life. Countries with high power distance are those whose citizens generally accpet status and power inequalities (India, Malaysia). Low power distnace do not (US, Sweden).
Self-awareness
part of emotional intelligence. Refers to recognizing one's emotions, strengths, and limitations, and capabilities and how these affect others.
Self-esteem
is the extent to which a person believes that he or she is a worthwhile and deserving individual.
Self-motivation
Part of emotional intelligence. Refers to being results orientated and pursing goals beyond what is required. Highly self-motivated people set challenging goals for themselves and others, seeks ways to improve their performance, and readily make personal sacrifices to meet their organization's goals.
Social empathy
part of emotional intelligence. Refers to sensing what others need in order for them to develop. Show sensitivity, understand people's needs and feelings, challenge bias and intolerance, an act as trusted advisers to others.
Social skills
part of emotional intelligence. Refers to the ability of a person to influence others.
Uncertainty avoidance
the extent to which people rely on procedures, and organizations (including government) to avoid ambiguity, unpredictability, and risk. With high uncertainty avoidance- individuals seek out orderliness, consistency, structure, (Japan, Sweden, Germany). Low uncertainty avoidance- job mobility and layoffs common (US, Canada)
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Autor: kkelly00
Oberthema: Business Economics
Thema: Organizational Behavior
Schule / Uni: SDSU
Ort: San Diego, CA
Veröffentlicht: 23.02.2010
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