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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
Cognitive Ability
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Various capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication
Verbal Ability
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Capabilities associated with doing basic mathematical operations and selecting and applying formulas to solve mathematical problems
Quantitative Ability
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A diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic
Reasoning Ability
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Capabilities associated with visual and mental representation and manipulation of objets in space
Spatial Ability
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The capacity to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information
Perceptual Ability
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The general level of cognitive ability that plays an important role in determining the more narrow cognitive abilities
General Cognitive Ability
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A set of abilities related to the understanding and use of emotions that affect social functioning
Emotional Intelligence
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The ability to recognize and understand the emotions in oneself
Self Awareness
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The ability to recognize and understand emotions that other people are having
Other Awareness
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The ability to recover quickly from emotional experiences
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
Use of Emotions
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The degree to which the body is capable of exerting force
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
Stamina
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The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach
Flexibility
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The quality of physical movement in terms of synchronization of movement and balance
Coordination
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Capabilities associated with manipulating and controlling objects
psychomotor ability
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Capabilities associated with vision and hearing
Sensory Ability
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Performance in the routine conditions that surround daily job tasks
Typical Performance
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Performance in brief, special circumstances that demand a person's best effort
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
Situational Strength
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The degree to which situations provide cues that trigger the expression of a given personality trait
Trait activation
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A 12-minute test of general cognitive ability used to hire job applicants
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
Job Satisfaction
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Things that people consciously or unconsciously want to seek or attain
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
Value-percept theory
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Employees' feelings about the compensation for their jobs
Pay satisfaction
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Employees' feelings about how the company handles promotions
Promotion Satisfaction
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Employees' feelings about their boss, including his or her competency, communication, and personality
Supervision Satisfaction
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Employees' feelings about their co-workers, including their abilities and personalities
Co-worker Satisfaction
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Employees' feelings about their actual work tasks
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
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
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
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
Job Characteristics Theory
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The degree to which a job requires different activities and skills
Variety
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The degree to which a job offers completion of a whole, identifiable piece of work
Identity
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The degree to which a job really matters and impacts society as a whole
Significance
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The degree to which a job provides freedom, independence, and discretion to perform the work
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
Feedback
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The degree to which employees have the aptitude and competence needed to succeed on their job
Knowledge and Skill
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The degree to which employees desire to develop themselves further
Growth Need Strength
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When job duties and responsibilities are expanded to provide increased levels of core job characteristics
job enrichment
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When employees shape, mold, and redefine their job in a proactive way
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
Moods
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The degree to which an employee is in a good versus bad mood
Pleasantness
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The degree to which moods are aroused and active, as opposed to unaroused and inactive
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
Flow
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A theory that describes how workplace events can generate emotional reactions that impact work behaviours
Affective Events THeory
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Intense feelings, often lasting for a short duration, that are clearly directed at someone or some circumstance
Emotions
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Employees' feelings of joy, pride, relief, hope, love and compassion
Positive emotions
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Employees' feelings of fear, guilt, shame, sadness, envy, and disgust
Negative Emotions
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The management of their emotions that employees must do to complete their job duties successfully
Emotional Labour
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The idea that emotions can be transferred from one person to another
Emotional Contagion
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The degree to which employees feel ta sense of happiness with their lives in general
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
Job Descriptive Index (JDI)

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