Specific personality characteristics related to organizational behavior

First time I heard about “locus of control” from one of my colleagues, a psychologist. My friend Google helped me to find out more about it. Julian Rotter in 1966 published an article about locus of control. He is also developed the social learning theory (a post about it to follow). It seems that there are three...

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The O.C.E.A.N.

An ocean of people, all different and special, has something in common: O.C.E.A.N. – Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism  – The Big Five. Openness – creativity and innovation vs. status quo Conscientiousness – responsibility and positive motivation vs....

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Values

Values are not just basic beliefs, needs or standards relatively stable across the life span. Values are the things that really matter to you! They develop under the influence of culture, society, and personality and can be classified in ethical, economic, social, aesthetic, and ideological. The Rokeach value system is classifying...

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Organizational behavior – definition

Organizational behavior is, as simple as possible said, the representation of people’s dynamics in an organized environment: company, public sector or NGO = a collective person. Dynamics, in physics, is the study of the causes of motion and its five variables: momentum, force, potential energy, pressure and power. Momentum is...

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