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Personality and cultural Values
Status Striving
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Management
Undergraduate 3
12/04/2012

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Status Striving
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Whish to develope a strong reputation and obtain power within the company. A strong desire to abtain power and influence within a social stucture as a means of expressing one's personality."jumping hoops to impress and get attention in order to get recognition"
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Positive Affectivity
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A dispositional tendency to experience plesant engageing moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation. "Tend to enjoy their jobs more"
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Negative Affectivity
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" enaging in negatice moods.hostility, nervousness, and annoyance"
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Differential Exposure
Definition
More likey to appraise day-to-day situations as stressful. Will be always stressful.
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Locus of Control
Definition
Wehter one believes they control what happen to them or an external environment.
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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A test by Carl Jung testing personality types.
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Interests
Definition
Expressions of personality that influence behavior preferences for certian environments and activites.
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RIASEC Model
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An interest frame-work summarized by six different personality types including realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional. A different version of myers Brigs using six personality types.
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Culture
Definition
Shared values and beliefs of the company transmitted across generations.
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Individualism-collectivism
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The degree to which a culture has a loosey knit social framework (individualism) or a tight social framework (collectivism. like eastern culture vs western culture.
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Power distance
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The degree to which a culture prefers equal power distribution (low power distance) or an unequal power distribution (high power distance).
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Uncertainty avoidance
Definition
how a culture tolerates ambiguous situations (low uncertainty aviodance0 or feels threatened by them ( high uncertainty aviodance. how do the company deals with risk.
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Masculinity-Feminity
Definition
how a culture values stereotypically male traits or female traits.
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Short term vs. long term orientation
Definition
How a culture stresses values that are past ans present oreinted. Short term or long term.
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Projection GLOBE
Definition
Research on the effectiveness of leader attributes, behaviors, and practicies.
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Ethnocentrism
Definition
One who believes his culture values and norms are right and all others as wrong.
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Typical Performance
Definition
performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job task.
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Maximum Performace
Definition
Performance in brief, special circumstances that deman a person's best effort. "Tapping out during excercing"
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Situational Strength
Definition
The degree to which situations have clear behavioral expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important. "Differences don't matter."
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Trait Activation
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The degree to which situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given personality trait.
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Integrity Tests
Definition
Personality tests that focus specifically on a predisposition to engage the theft and other counterproductive behaviors (sometimes also called honesty test. "The test Wlamart has you take when filling out an application.
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Clear Purpose tests
Definition
Integrity test that ask about dishonesty, beliefs, desire to punish dishonesty, and confession of past dishonesty.
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Veiled Purpose tests
Definition
Test that does not directly ask about being dishonest, instead assessing more general personaliity traits associated with dishonest acts.
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Faking
Definition
Exaggerating response to a personality test in a socially desirable fashion. "Acting like a goodie too shoes."
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