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60 Cards in this Set
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Individual differences |
Variations in how people respond to the same situation based on personal characteristics |
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Productivity |
Rate of output per worker |
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Empowerment |
Giving someone the power to do something |
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Gender differences |
Differences in the perception of male and female roles |
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Generational and Age-Based Differences |
A worker that belongs to a certain generation may behave differently from a worker who belongs to another |
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Culture |
Learned and shared ways of thinking and acting among a group or society |
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Aptitude |
Capacity of a person to acquire skills |
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Ability |
Individual's capacity to perform the various tasks in a job |
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Physical ability |
The capacity of the individual to do tasks demanding stamina, dexterity, strength, and similar characteristics |
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Dynamic strength |
Exert muscular force repeatedly or continuously |
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Trunk strength |
Exert muscular strength using trunk muscles |
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Static strength |
Exert force against external objectives |
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Explosive strength |
Expend a maximum of energy in one or a series of explosive acts |
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Extent flexibility |
Move the trunk and back muscles |
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Dynamic flexibility |
Make rapid, repeated flexing movements |
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Body coordination |
Coordinate the simultaneous actions of different parts of the body |
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Balance |
Maintain equilibrium despite forces pulling off balance |
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Stamina |
Continue maximum effort requiring prolonged effort over time |
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Intellectual or mental ability |
* Also referred to intelligence * Capacity to do mental activities, such as thinking, reasoning, and problem solving |
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Cognitive intelligence |
Acquire and apply knowledge including solving problems |
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Social intelligence |
Relate effectively with others |
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Emotional intelligence |
Understanding one's own feelings, empathy for |
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Cultural intelligence |
Interpreted someone's unfamiliar and ambiguous behavior |
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Robert Sternberg |
Developed an approach to the study of intelligence, which is known as the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence |
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Componential intelligence |
* Analytical intelligence * Needed for solving difficult problems with abstract reasoning |
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Experiential intelligence |
* Creative intelligence * For imagination and combining things and novel ways |
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Contextual intelligence |
* Practical intelligence * street smarts |
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Linguistic |
Sensitive to language, meanings, and the relations among words |
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Logical Mathematical |
Abstract thought, precision, counting, organization, and logical structure |
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Musical |
To create and understand meaning made out of sounds |
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Spatial |
To perceive and manipulate images in their branch |
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Body kinesthetic |
People to use their body and perceptual and motor systems |
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Intrapersonal |
Highly accurate understanding of himself or herself |
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Interpersonal |
Recognize and make distinctions among the feelings, motives, and intentions of others in |
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Naturalist |
Ability to seek patterns in the external physical environment |
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Personality |
The sum of the total ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others |
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Hereditary |
Limits by which environment can develop personality characteristics |
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Cultural factor |
Established norms, attitude, and values |
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Social factor |
Reflect family life, religion and the many kinds of formal and information groups |
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Situational factors |
Individual will behave differently in different situations |
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Traits |
Partially inherited and they will develop depending on the environment where the person is situated |
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Emotional stability |
Personality factor characterizes one as calm, self-confident, and secure |
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Extraversion |
Personality factor describing someone who is sociable, greagrious and assertive |
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Introversion |
Person who tends to be reserved, timid, and quiet |
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Openness to experience |
Personality factor describing someone who is imaginative, cultured, curious, broadminded |
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Conventional |
Finds comfort in the familiar |
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Agreeableness |
Person's interpersonal orientation |
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Agreeable person |
Cooperative, warm, and trusting |
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Conscientiousness |
*Person's reliability * responsible, organized, dependable, persistent |
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Self-monitoring behavior |
Person's ability to adjust his/her behavior to external, situational, or environmental factors |
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Risk taking and thrill seeking |
Person's willingness to take risk |
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Optimism |
Tendency to experience positive emotional states and typically believe that positive outcomes will be forthcoming |
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Emotional Intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) |
By Daniel Goleman To accurately perceive, evaluate, express ans regulate emotions and feelings |
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Self-regulation |
Ability to calm down anxiety, control impulsiveness |
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Motivation |
Passion to work for reasons that go beyond money or status |
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Emphaty |
Ability to respond to unspoken feelings of others |
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Self-awareness |
Awareness of one's own personality or individuality |
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Social skills |
Proficiency to manage relationship and building networks |
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Social culture |
The social environment of human created beliefs, customs, knowledge, and practices that define conventional behavior in society |
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Organizational culture |
The set of value, beliefs, and norms that is shared among members of an organization |
