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| defines whether a person places the primary responsibility for what happens to him/her within himself/herself or outside forces |
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| belief that power and status differences should exist in an organization |
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| assumption that people are basically lazy and not motivated to work and that they have a natural tendency to avoid responsibility |
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| assumption that people do not inherently dislike work and will commit themselves willingly to work that they care about |
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| tendency to assign an individual to a broad category and then attribute generalizations about the group to the indivdual |
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| an overall impression of a person or situation based on one characteristic either favorable or unfavorable |
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| the tendency to see one's own personal traits in others |
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| tendency to protect oneself by disregarding, ideas, situations, or other people that are unpleasant |
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| fundamental attribution error |
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| tendency to underestimate the influence of external factors on another's behavior and overestimate the influence of internal factors |
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| tendency to overestimate the influence of internal factors on one's success and the influence of external factors on one's failures |
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| degree to which one is well-adjusted, calm, and secure opposite of emotionally unstable |
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| theories people hold about specific systems in the world and their expected behavior |
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| action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts and experience of another |
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