MGMT 4327 Notes-for Test #2- Ch # 4-8 Date: __July 17th 2006
Chapter 4
75 Personality. Represents the overall combination of characteristics that capture the
unique nature of a person as that person reacts and interacts with others.
75.Personality combines a set of physical and mental characteristics that reflect how a
person looks, thinks, acts, and feels.
An understanding of personality contributes to the understanding of organization behavior,
in that we expect a predictable interplay between an individual personality and his or her
tendency to behave in a certain way.
As the determined and of personality, in garment consists of cultural, social, and
situational factors.
77 Self-esteem and self-efficacy are two related aspects of the self-concept.
People high and self-esteem see themselves as capable, worthwhile, an acceptable, and
tend to have few doubts about themselves.
78.Social traits are surface-level traits that reflect the way a person appears to others when
interacting in various social settings.
The big five personality traits include extraversion, agreeableness, conscientious,
emotionally stable, and openness to experience.
Extraversion is a big file personality the mansion, that is associated with being
imaginative, curious, and broad minded.
79.Personal conception traits represent the wayindividuals tend to think about their social
and physical setting as well as their major beliefs and personal orientation concerning a
range of issues.
The extent to which a person feels able to control his or her own life is concerned with a
person internal-external orientation and is measured by Rotter, locus of control instrument.
81.Someone who views and manipulates others purely for personal gain has a
Machiavellian personality.
Self-monitoring reflects a person ability to adjust his or her behavior to an external,
