January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
130h 6m
English
1 Describe personality, the way it is measured, and the factors that shape it.
Why are some people quiet and passive, while others are loud and aggressive? Are certain personality types better adapted than others for certain jobs? Before we can answer these questions, we need to address a more basic one: What is personality?
When we speak of someone’s personality, we use many adjectives to describe how they act and seem to think; in fact, participants in a recent study used 624 distinct adjectives to describe people they knew.1 As organizational behaviorists, however, we organize personality characteristics by overall traits, describing the growth and development of a person’s personality.
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