April 2015
Beginner
480 pages
107h 32m
English
In a word, “YES!” Five specific personality traits have proven most powerful in explaining individual behavior in organizations. Let’s take a look.
Who has control over an individual’s behavior? Some people believe that they control their own fate. Others see themselves as pawns of fate, believing that what happens to them in their lives is due to luck or chance. The locus of control in the first case is internal. In the second case, it is external; these people believe that their lives are controlled by outside forces.40 A manager might also expect to find that externals blame a poor performance evaluation on their boss’s prejudice, their coworkers, or other events outside their ...