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MOS 2181 Quiz 4-5 Flashcards

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The structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behaviour; reflects what people are like and creates their social reputaiton

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Personality

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Recurring trends in people’s responses to their environemnt

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Traits

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Shared beliefs about desirable end states or modes of conduct in a given culture that influence the expression of traits

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Cultural Values

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Relatively stable capabilities of people for performing a particular range of related activities

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Ability

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering

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Conscientiousness

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, courteous, and warm

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Agreeableness

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, jealous, and unstable

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Neuroticism

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, and sophisticated

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Openness (to experience)

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Dimension of personality-reflecting traits like being talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, and dominant

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Extraversion

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The five major dimensions of personality: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion

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Big Five

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A strong desire to accomplish task related goals as a means of expressing one’s personality

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Accomplishment Striving

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A strong desire to obtain acceptance in personal relationships as a means of expressing one’s personality

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Communion Striving

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Situations in which two people have just met

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Zero fuaintance Situations

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A strong desire to obtain power and influence within a social structure as a means of expressing one’s personality

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Status Striving

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A dispositional tendency to experience pleasant, engaging moods such as enthusiasm, excitement, and elation

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Positive Affectivity

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A dispositional tendency to experience unpleasant, engaging moods such as hostility, nervousness, and annoyance

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Negative Affectivity

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One’s tendency to view the cause of events and personal outcomes as internally or externally controlled

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Locus of Control

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The shared values, beliefs, motives, identities, and interpretations that result from common experiences of members of a society and are transmitted across generations

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Culture

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The degree to which a culture has a loosely knit social framework () or a tight social framework ()

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Individualism-collectivism

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The degree to which a culture prefers equal power distribution or an unequal power distribution

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Power Distance

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The degree to which a culture tolerates ambiguous situations or feels threatened by them

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Uncertainty Avoidance

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The degree to which a culture values stereotypically male traits or stereotypically female traits

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Masculinity-femininity

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The degree to which a culture stresses values that are past- and present-oriented or future-oriented

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Short-term vs. long-term orientation

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A propensity to view one’s own cultural values as “right” and those of other cultures as “wrong”

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Ethnocentrism

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Capabilities related to the use of knowledge to make decisions and solve problems

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Cognitive Ability

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Various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication

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Verbal Ability

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Capabilities associated with doing basic mathematical operations and selecting and applying formulas to solve mathematical problems

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Quantitative Ability

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A diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic

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Reasoning Ability

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Capabilities associated with visual and mental representation and manipulation of objets in space

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Spatial Ability

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The capacity to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information

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Perceptual Ability

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The general level of cognitive ability that plays an important role in determining the more narrow cognitive abilities

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General Cognitive Ability

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A set of abilities related to the understanding and use of emotions that affect social functioning

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Emotional Intelligence

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The ability to recognize and understand the emotions in oneself

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Self Awareness

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The ability to recognize and understand emotions that other people are having

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Other Awareness

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The ability to recover quickly from emotional experiences

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Emotion Regulation

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The degree to which people can harness emotions and employ them to improve their chances of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do

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Use of Emotions

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The degree to which the body is capable of exerting force

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Strength

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The ability of a person’s lungs and circulatory system to work efficiently while he or she is engaging in prolonged physical activity

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Stamina

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The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach

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Flexibility

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The quality of physical movement in terms of synchronization of movement and balance

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Coordination

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Capabilities associated with manipulating and controlling objects

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psychomotor ability

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Capabilities associated with vision and hearing

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Sensory Ability

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Performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job tasks

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Typical Performance

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Performance in brief, special circumstances that demand a person’s best effort

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Maximum Performance

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The degree to which situations have clear behavioural expectations, incentives, or instructions that make differences between individuals less important

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Situational Strength

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The degree to which situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given personality trait

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Trait activation

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A 12-minute test of general cognitive ability used to hire job applicants

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Wonderlic Personnel Test

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A pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one’s job or job experiences; represents how a person feels and thinks about his or her job

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Job Satisfaction

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Things that people consciously or unconsciously want to seek or attain

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Values

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A theory that argues that job satisfaction depends on whether the employee perceives that his or her job supplies those things that he or she values

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Value-percept theory

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Employees’ feelings about the compensation for their jobs

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Pay satisfaction

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Employees’ feelings about how the company handles promotions

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Promotion Satisfaction

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Employees’ feelings about their boss, including his or her competency, communication, and personality

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Supervision Satisfaction

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Employees’ feelings about their co-workers, including their abilities and personalities

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Co-worker Satisfaction

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Employees’ feelings about their actual work tasks

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Satisfaction with the work itself

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A psychological state indicating the degree to which work tasks are viewed as something that counts in the employee’s system of philosophies and beliefs

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Meaningfulness of work

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A psychological state indicating the degree to which employees feel they are key drivers of quality of work output

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Responsibility for Outcomes

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A psychological state indicating the extent to which employees are aware of how well or how poorly they are doing

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Knowledge of Results

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A theory that argues that five core characteristics (variety, identity, significance, autonomy, and feedback) combine to result in high levels of satisfaction with the work itself

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Job Characteristics Theory

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The degree to which a job requires different activities and skills

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Variety

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The degree to which a job offers completion of a whole, identifiable piece of work

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Identity

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The degree to which a job really matters and impacts society as a whole

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Significance

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The degree to which a job provides freedom, independence, and discretion to perform the work

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Autonomy

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In job characteristics theory, the degree to which the job itself provides information about how well the job holder is doing

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Feedback

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The degree to which employees have the aptitude and competence needed to succeed on their job

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Knowledge and Skill

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The degree to which employees desire to develop themselves further

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Growth Need Strength

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When job duties and responsibilities are expanded to provide increased levels of core job characteristics

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job enrichment

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When employees shape, mold, and redefine their job in a proactive way

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Job crafting

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States of feeling that are mild in intensity, last for an extended period of time, and are not directed at anything

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Moods

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The degree to which an employee is in a good versus bad mood

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Pleasantness

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The degree to which moods are aroused and active, as opposed to unaroused and inactive

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activation

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A state in which employees feel a total immersion in the task at hand, sometimes losing track of how much time has passed

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Flow

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A theory that describes how workplace events can generate emotional reactions that impact work behaviours

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Affective Events THeory

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Intense feelings, often lasting for a short duration, that are clearly directed at someone or some circumstance

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Emotions

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Employees’ feelings of joy, pride, relief, hope, love and compassion

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Positive emotions

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Employees’ feelings of fear, guilt, shame, sadness, envy, and disgust

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Negative Emotions

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The management of their emotions that employees must do to complete their job duties successfully

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Emotional Labour

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The idea that emotions can be transferred from one person to another

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Emotional Contagion

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The degree to which employees feel ta sense of happiness with their lives in general

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Life satisfaction

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A facet measure of job satisfaction that assesses an individual’s satisfaction with pay, promotion opportunities, supervision, co-workers, and the work itself

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Job Descriptive Index (JDI)

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