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Personality Traits - ANSWER-enduring characteristics that describe individual's behavior. Heredity - ANSWER-factors determined at conception; one's biological, physiological and inherent psychological makeup Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - ANSWER-a personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types Problem with Myers-Briggs - ANSWER-it forces you into one or another personality type, there is no in-between Big Five Personality Model - ANSWER-A personality assessment model that taps five basic dimensions: Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability and Openness to Experience Extraversion - ANSWER-extraverts tend to be gregarious, assertive, and sociable, while introverts tend to be reserved, timid and quiet Agreeableness - ANSWER-highly agreeable people are cooperative, warm and trusting. people who score low on agreeableness are cold, disagreeable and antagonistic Conscientiousness - ANSWER-A highly conscientious person is responsible, organized, dependable and persistent. Those who score low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized and unreliable. Emotional Stability - ANSWER-People with positive emotional stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure. Those with high negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure. Openness to Experience - ANSWER-Extremely open people are creative, curious, and artistically sensitive. Those at the other end of the category are conventional and find comfort in the familiar. Core self-evaluation - ANSWER-bottom-line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence, and worth as a person Machiavellianism - ANSWER-the degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance and believes the ends justify the means narcissism - ANSWER-the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement. Self-monitoring - ANSWER-a personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors. Proactive personality - ANSWER-people who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action and persevere until meaningful change occurs Other orientation - ANSWER-employees high in other-orientation also exert especially high levels of effort when engaged in helping work or prosocial behavior Values - ANSWER-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. Value System - ANSWER-a hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual's values in terms of their intensity Rokeach Value Survey - ANSWER-consists of two sets of values, terminal values and instrumental values Terminal Values - ANSWER-desirable end-states of existence, the goals a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime Instrumental Values - ANSWER-preferable modes of behavior or means of acheiving one's terminal values Personality-job fit theory - ANSWER-a theory that identifies six personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover. Person-organization fit - ANSWER-people are attracted to and selected by organizations that match their values and they leave organizations that are not compatible with their personalities Power distance - ANSWER-a national cultural attribute that describes the extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally Individualism - ANSWER-the degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of groups Collectivism - ANSWER-a tight social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part to look after them and protect them