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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Social Learning Theory

You learn all the time. In organizations learning is necessary to improve performance. That works as long as people are motivated to improve, to develop their practical and interpersonal skills. Social learning is a free form of learning based on interaction with and observation of the others. The decision to learn at work is taken...

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Motivation vs. performance

Motivation is seen in the quantity and quality of the effort you put in reaching the goal of the organization. Performance is how the organization quantifies how closer you are of reaching the goal. It seems that these two go together. But motivation alone is not enough. Stupid people with good intention are the worst you can...

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