successful organizational socialization includes: challenging first job
relevant training
timely and consistent feedback
right person in charge of socialization
relaxed orientation program
work groups with high morale
"Big five" personality traits extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional
stability, openness to experience
extraversion sociable, outgoing, talkative, assertive
higher extraversion; more management/sales success; more absenteeism
agreeableness cooperative, warm, caring, courteous
Higher conscientiousness; strongest positive correlation with job performance, higher goal
setting, take on more responsibility, less absent
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emotional stability calm, secure, happy, unworried
high emotional stability, tied to job performance, better in stressful situation
openness to experience curious, intellectual, creative, flexible
higher openness to experience, job training proficiency, have strategic management style
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator based on four dimensions of traits:
extraversion vs. introversion
sensing vs. intuiting
thinking vs. feeling
judging vs. perceiving
Extraversion vs. Introversion how people prefer to focus their energies
sensing vs intuiting how people give attention and collect info
thinking vs. feeling how people process and evaluate information and make decisions
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judging vs. perceiving how people orient themselves to the outside world
perception unique interpretation of a situation, not exact recording of it
interpretation responsible for filtering, modifying or completely changing raw data to provide
meaning
sensation senses responsible for people's reality or the raw data about the world around
them
social perception how one individual perceives other individuals, how we get to know
each other
stereotypes tendency to perceive another person as belonging to a single class or category
may attribute favorable or unfavorable traits to the person being perceived
common stereotype groups managers, minorities, women