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| Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior. |
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| Extraverted individuals are outgoing, sociable, and assertive. |
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| Introverts are quiet and shy. |
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| Sensing types are practical and prefer routine and order. They focus on details. |
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| Intuitives rely on unconscious processes and look at the “big picture.” |
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| Thinking types use reason and logic to handle problems. |
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| Feeling types rely on their personal values and emotions. |
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| Judging types want control and prefer their world to be ordered and structured. |
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| Perceiving types are flexible and spontaneous. |
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| Factors determined at conception; one’s biological, physiological, and inherent psychological makeup. |
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Enduring
characteristics that describe an
individual’s behavior. |
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| Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) |
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A personality test that taps four
characteristics and classifies people
into 1 of 16 personality types. |
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A personality
assessment model that taps five basic
dimensions. |
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A personality dimension
describing someone who is sociable,
gregarious, and assertive. |
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A personality
dimension that describes someone
who is good natured, cooperative, and
trusting. |
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A personality
dimension that describes someone
who is responsible, dependable,
persistent, and organized. |
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A personality
dimension that characterizes someone
as calm, self-confident, secure
(positive) versus nervous, depressed,
and insecure (negative). |
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A personality
dimension that characterizes someone
in terms of imagination, sensitivity,
and curiosity. |
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Bottom-line
conclusions individuals have about
their capabilities, competence, and
worth as a person. |
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The degree to
which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and
believes that ends can justify means. |
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The tendency to be
arrogant, have a grandiose sense
of self-importance, require excessive
admiration, and have a sense of
entitlement. |
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A personality
trait that measures an individual’s
ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors. |
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People who
identify opportunities, show initiative,
take action, and persevere until
meaningful change occurs. |
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Basic convictions that a
specific mode of conduct or end-state
of existence is personally or socially
preferable to an opposite or converse
mode of conduct or end-state of
existence. |
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A hierarchy based on
a ranking of an individual’s values in
terms of their intensity. |
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Desirable end-states of
existence; the goals a person would like
to achieve during his or her lifetime. |
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Preferable modes
of behavior or means of achieving
one’s terminal values. |
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| personality–job fit theory |
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A theory
that identifies six personality types
and proposes that the fit between
personality type and occupational
environment determines satisfaction
and turnover. |
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A national culture
attribute that describes the extent to
which a society accepts that power
in institutions and organizations is
distributed unequally. |
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A national culture
attribute that describes the degree to
which people prefer to act as individuals
rather than as members of groups. |
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A national culture attribute
that describes a tight social framework
in which people expect others in groups
of which they are a part to look after
them and protect them. |
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A national culture attribute
that describes the extent to which the
culture favors traditional masculine
work roles of achievement, power, and
control. Societal values are characterized
by assertiveness and materialism. |
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A national culture attribute
that indicates little differentiation
between male and female roles; a high
rating indicates that women are treated
as the equals of men in all aspects of
the society. |
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A national
culture attribute that describes
the extent to which a society
feels threatened by uncertain and
ambiguous situations and tries to
avoid them. |
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A national
culture attribute that emphasizes the
future, thrift, and persistence. |
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A national
culture attribute that emphasizes
the past and present, respect for
tradition, and fulfillment of social
obligations. |
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