Behavior (OB) = F [(PERSON) (situation/OB context)]

- The "you" that others get to know.

- The "you" that you express to others.

- The "you" that gets revealed to the world on a fairly consistent and regular basis.

- The "you" that you express to 99.9% of the people you come in contact with.

Yes,

- Affects career choice.

- Affects whether or not you will be job satisfied.

- Reflects who is likely to emerge as a leader.

- Identifies who will incur stress at the extreme level, and who is resistant to certain levels of stress.

Yes,

- 40% of variants in job satisfaction can be accounted for by personality.

- Allows us to identify who of us will be job satisfied or dis-satisfied 30 years from now (w/o looking at job type).

- Nature vs. Nurture

- MN Twin's Study

- Red Herring

- Yours and my personalitise are shaped by biology and inheritance.

- Based on the genes passed down to us.

- Personlity is programmed into us.

- Function of life experiences.

- Shaped by social experiences during development.

- Formed early in life

- Well-developed by late adolescence

- Stable in nature

- Twins separated at birth

- Wide range of personality questions used

- They ended up being very similar

- 50-50 split between nature/nurture

- False choice

- Something doesn't exist

- Shouldn't try to change someone's personality

- Can choose to hire certain people

- Promote or transfer certain people

- Pierce: "Depends what I am doing it for".

- Welfare of the individual? - "No Problem".

- Person-Organization fit is important to acheive

- Beneficial from both sides (Indiv. and Org.)

- Personality Dimensions

- Very broad

- Abstract

- General in nature

- Personality Traits

- Very narrow

- Tight

- Specific in nature

- Psysiological-based Difference

- e.g. Extroversion

- Belief System-based Differences

- e.g. Work ethic

- Motive-based Differences

- e.g. Need for achievement

- Extroversion

- Neuroticism

- Agreeableness

- Conscientiousness

- Openness to Experience

- "One's quest for external stimulation".

- Introversion does not mean shy and gregarious

- Emotional Stability

- High: Stress, Unstable, Insecure

- Low: Calm, Stable, Self-confident, Secure

- One's ability to defer to others.

- Cooperative, Forgiving, Trusting

- Org:

- Good team members and subordinates

- Job satisfied (High agreeableness)

- Strong relationship with Org. Citizenship Behaviors.

- Strongest predictor of performance.

- High: Reliable, Persistent, Dependable, Responsible

- Curiosity, Imaginative, Fascination with novelty

- Broad range of interest

- High in creativity

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