ch.2 Flashcards
(43 cards)
Explain ability vs personability
Ability is what a person is capable of. Core competency, skill, what you have, what you hold. Time management: ‘‘I can change that’’. Cultural intelligence.
Personality: the relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts (thinks, acts, behaves) with his or her environment1. 1. summarizes a personal style of dealing with the world. 2. Traits and characteristics are determined by genetics. It’s harder to change, but it’s still hard.
Explain personality more deeply
dispositional…
- Can include values, motives
- What influences behavior more: personality or environment?
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**Dispositional, situational, and interactionist approaches
Dispositional: Acting the way you are because you came this way situational: Setting or environment makes you behave interactionist approaches: Disposition+ situation/environment affects how we act
What is cognitive ability?
The capacity to learn and process cognitive information such as reading, comprehension, mathematical patterns, and spatial patterns. You need to mentally process, understand and learn information.
Cognitive intelligence
emotional intelligence
cultural intelligence
IQ
What are 3 examples of tests of cognitive ability
GMAT
LSAT
MCAT
What is emotional intelligence?
refers to the ability to accurately identify emotions (in self and others) as well as understand and manage those emotions separately
*The higher your EI, the more people perceive you as a leader. Better at the manager, better at resolving and productivity
What is emotional intelligence positively correlated with?
perceptions of leadership
coping with stress
job performance
What is cultural intelligence?
represents a person’s capability to function effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity
CQ
What jobs would require high CQ?
Job working with diverse teams
International relations that cross borders
Public relations jobs between countries or provinces
Negotiations
Supply relationships
What are 4 sub-skills of cultural intelligence?
- CQ- Strategy: how a person interprets and understands intercultural experiences. How can I learn what I need to know about that culture
- CQ-knowledge: person’s understanding of how cultures are similar and different
- CQ-Motivation: person’s interest in experiencing other cultures and interacting with people from different cultures (Also referred to as Drive)
- CQ-Behaviour: person’s capability to modify their own verbal and nonverbal behavior so it is appropriate for different cultures (Also referred to as Action)
Emotional Intelligence vs IQ (cognitive intelligence)
Explain *
**VIDEO
EI: The higher you go in the organization, the more it matters. EI makes someone an outstanding leader. EI is more important.
In university, everyone is as smart, what’s more, important is Ei
Our human abilities (EI) EI creates a better leader to control their own emotions and manage and understand people.
Explain how people with high cultural intelligence act using the 4 sub skills
**VIDEO
High CQ drive: Interesting motivation in cross-cultural
High CQ knowledge: grasp of cultural similarities and diff
High CQ strategy: plan and be aware
High CQ action: adapt behavior for different cultural scenarios
Name the Five-Factor Model of Personality
*Big five
- Extraversion
- Emotional stability
- Agreeableness
- Conscientiousness
- Openness to experience
Name and explain 3 important points about the Big FIve
- All five traits are relatively independent.
- All 5 hold up cross-culture
- Strong evidence that the Big 5 are part of our genetics
Explain higher and lower extroversion from the Big Five
Higher on an extroversion scale: How outgoing or social you are. They’d rather be with people. Outgoing, social, love chatting, totally cool with conflict. Jobs: Sales, Public relations.**
Lower extroversion: Like to spend more time on their own. Smaller social circle. Recharge more in solitude. They like teamwork, but like to contribute to the background.
Explain higher and lower emotional stability (Neuroticism) from the Big Five.
Degree of your emotional control
High: Wonderful sense of calm, stability, and balance, during chaos they are calm. They have stress, but they can manage it.
Low: Self-doubt. Anxious, quickly depressed. ‘‘I don’t know if I can do this (T+S=R). Prone to stress
Explain higher and lower agreeableness from the Big Five
Degree of approachability and cooperativeness. Strongly related to organizational commitment.
High: greater sympathy, more considerable than others, eager to help others. *OCB= Organization citizenship behavior. ( go above and beyond to help)
Lower: More argumentative, not as open to hearing someone else’s opinion. More inflexible, more intolerant. Easily irritated by others.
Explain higher and lower conscientiousness from the Big Five
Degree of responsibility and achievement orientation. ***1. Consciousness predicts performance in all jobs across all occupations. 2. Higher the probability they’ll find a job quicker.
High: More dependable, accountable, self-disciplined, solid time-management, and hard-working. The more you get done the more you get relied on.
Lower: finds responsibility scary, Stress-inducing, less driven by success, ‘‘lazy’’
Explain lower and higher Openness to experience from the Big Five
degree you think flexibly and are receptive to new ideas.
- High: more creative, have more imagination, curiosity, and innovation.
- Lower: More you prefer jobs with repetition, comfort in rules, comfort with standards.
There are 7 important personality characteristics. Also called 7 variables Which ones are they?
Important: 5 factors and 7 variables
- Locus of control
- Self-monitoring
- Self-esteem
- Positive and negative affectivity
- proactive personality
- self-efficacity
7.core self-evaluations
Explain the Locus of control from the 7 variables of personality charcateristics
Belief about whether one’s behavior is controlled by internal forces or external forces
- Internal: ‘‘I better take charge’’ Take the initiative. Usually earn more money. High achievement type positions.
External: waits for things to happen to them. They will end up getting more stressed because they wait too much. Rely more upon faith and luck.
Explain self-monitoring from the 7 variables of personality characteristics
The degree to which people observe and regulate their environments. Regulate how they appear and behave in social settings.
High: looking for clues and cues in the room and adjusting accordingly.
Low: Don’t care. Don’t pay attention to cues in the room.
Explain self-esteem form the 7 variables of personality characteristics
- High: Appreciate yourself, and respect the degree to which you believe in yourself. The overall feeling of self-acceptance, and like yourself.
. Differentiate to self-efficacy.
Explain self-efficacy from the 7 variables of personality characteristics
a person’s beliefs with on self in respect to performing a task or an activity. To conquer a task. Ex: succeed at the workplace.
The more things in my life, I can conquer and feel good about that achievement, feel self-efficacy, it will probably grow my self-esteem. Can also go the other way.
Explain positive and negative affectivity from the 7 variables of personality characteristics
Does he/she ever show optimism? **This could affect other emotional tendencies.
Positive: Optimism, gratitude, ‘’glass half-full’’
Negative: pessimism behavior, negative view of life
