What is the purpose of

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Purpose of Activities

• What is the purpose of
• In-class completion of questionnaire credit for
  it
• In class reading?
• What is the purpose of answering so many
  questionnaires at home?
• Why were some questionnaires longer than others?
• Why have name tags?

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Why?
How?
Self Awareness
So What?
Can we trust it?
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Ways to Describe Oneself
Personality Specific Traits
Knowledge Abilities Skills
Styles Preferences
Values Goals Motives
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Specific Traits

• Self Esteem
• Locus of Control
• Self Monitoring

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Specific Traits Self Esteem

• View of oneself positively vs. negatively
• Belief in having desirable traits
• Measure in Aamodt Raynes (AR) p. 389-390
• Validity
• Predicts higher motivation
• Predicts better job performance
• To what extent are these scores reflective of
  your behavior in failure situations? Why or why
  not? Give examples
• How does your SE score influence your coaching/
  counseling behavior?

291-292 Aamodt
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Specific Traits Locus of Control

• General belief about control over reinforcement
  environment
• Measure in AR p. 297
• Validity
• Related to job satisfaction
• Predicts career advancement
• Related to effective leadership behaviors
• Leadership performance
• Performing effectively under stressful situations

Whetten Cameron p. 76-77
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Specific Traits Self Monitoring

• Tendency to change ones behavior and appearance
  depending on social situations
• Measure in AR p. 325 (complete for leadership
  topic)
• Predicts preferences for role-playing type jobs
  like sales, law, public relations, politics etc.
• Predicts career success
• Leadership behaviors in highly verbal contexts

1-26 Janasz et al
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Specific Traits

• Type A personality
• Scale in AR p. 47-48
• Predicts anxiety, poor relationships, heart
  disease (Human et al, 1999, JME)
• Optimism
• Scale in AR p.49-50
• Lifestyle Questionnaire
• Scale in AR p. 51-52
• All predict susceptibility coping with stress
• Which of these are related to facets of the Big
  Five? What does their relation tell you about
  these measures?

475, 476, 484, Aamodt
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Ways to Describe Oneself
Personality Specific Traits
Knowledge Abilities Skills
Styles Preferences
Values Goals Motives
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Goals, Motives, Values

• Goals
• Immediate causes of behavior
• Concrete, specific ideal states
• Motivations
• Abstract, global influences
• Strivings driving multiple behaviors
• Values
• Abstract guiding principles of behavior
• Ultimate motives

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Motives

• Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Motivation
• Intrinsic
• Enjoy performing task itself, challenge of task
  performance
• Extrinsic
• Enjoy consequence of task performance (e.g.,
  obtain reward or avoid punishment)
• Scale AR p. 391-2
• Validity
• Not clear if rewards reduce intrinsic motivation
  or just increase extrinsic motivation

p. 293 Aamodt
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Ways to Describe Oneself
Personality Specific Traits
Knowledge Abilities Skills
Styles Preferences
Values Goals Motives
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Styles Preferences

• Interest Inventories
• Compares similarity of interests to those in a
  particular field
• Scale in AR p. 109
• Validity
• Match between interests of employees and those
  of the job predicts higher satisfaction and
  performance

190 Aamodt
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Ways to Describe Oneself
Personality Specific Traits
Knowledge Abilities Skills
Styles Preferences
Values Goals Motives
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Review Questions

• What does the Life Satisfaction scale measure?
• Where does it fit in this?
• Definitional Exercise Differences between
• Predisposing factors, situational factors,
  reasoning processes behavior
• Personality, Values, Attitudes, Goals, Behavior
  (PVAGB)
• Culture, genetics, race, gender
• PVAGB vs. Culture genetics, race, gender etc.
• Why understand others?

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Why?
How?
Self Awareness
So What?
Can we trust it?
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Additional citations not on reserve

• Aamodt, M. (2004). Applied Industrial
  Organizational Psychology (4th Ed). Wadsworth
  Thomson Learning Belmont, CA ISBN 0534596932
• Whetten, D. Cameron, K. (2002). Developing
  Management Skills (5th Ed.) Prentice Hall Upper
  Saddle, NJ