Module 2 CRITICAL THINKING ASSIGNMENT /CSU Personality and Motivation – Analyze a Personality Demonstrate your understanding of personality and motivation and your critical thinking and writing skills by synthesizing theories of personality and motivation as covered in your textbook readings this week. Include any theories you have discovered in your own personality and motivation research efforts. Base your response to this assignment on the personality of somebody with whom you have direct experience
Badura, who recognized that cognitive learning is a key aspect that separates humans from other forms of life. This phenomenological approach analyzes the understanding and changing behavior in people, through observations, motivation, past experiences, and cognition. The following will give a further explanation of the phenomenological theory, and analyze three empirical studies, which focus on proximal and distal goal setting towards weight loss. Lastly, I will use the data from the empirical studies
interpersonal, and self-reported assessment instrument based on Jungian theories of personality types. This instrument measures personal differences in the psychological preferences of four domains. These domains include obtaining energy and motivation, processing information, making decisions, and interacting with surrounding people or situations (Aranda, & Tilton, 2013). According to the MBTI in Human-metric personality test, my scores were 12% (E) extroverted thinking more than introverted, 57% (N)
and applies it into real business work place. Personality has a big influence on how an employee thinks, feels, and behaves when working. As employers or human resource managers, they can analyze employees’ behaviors and performance to distinguish the personality of them. Keywords: application, performance, recruitment, motivation. Introduction of the big five model. The Big Five model describes and categorizes different personalities into five different traits: Extraversion, Neuroticism
movement. Based on the text, positive psychology is one of the most important aspects in determining how to enhance the personality by helping individuals recognize their human potential to learn and achieve. In this assignment one will compare the view points of Maslow, Rogers, and the positive psychology movement concerning individual personality. Recent studies have shown that personality theory and assessment plays an important role in the new era of positive psychology. Positive psychology today, emphasizes
A second step is to set the team organization, in a way that each team member is in the position to deliver its maximum performance. To make this possible, a team leader has to understand the individuals’ and interpersonal dynamics of the team. Personality tests and concepts such as the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator are two of the most used tools used by leaders to understand and manage these dynamics. Criteria to use when selecting a team member An
Synthesis Paper The objective of this paper is to analyze three scholarly empirical articles on Leadership. Generally Leadership is the ability to influence peoples toward their achievement of objectives. A number of papers have been written on various aspects of Leadership. The focus of this paper would show a synthesis of three scholarly works on the topic of Leadership. The first article to be analyzed is of “Impact of Personal Growth Projects on Leadership Identity Development” by Odom, Boyd
Organizational behavior studies human behavior and the impact individual attitudes and actions have on performance in the workplace. To provide a personal perspective of personality characteristics, the International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) assessment was used to measure aspects of my personality and how these traits relate to working with others and life within an organization. Key observations provide specific insight into how these are applied to workplace behavior and interactions with
leadership, individual differences, and performance. In this paper, I will evaluate, analyze and present my own personal opinion over how Armageddon (1998) presented I/O constructs effectively. The first I/O-related construct that the film analyzed was the importance of individual differences. The film demonstrated the dissimilarities among the characters on set and their role that they had to portray, personality, interest, physical ability and cognitive ability affect the outcome. Having the proper
Personality assessments are a tool used frequently in organizations. However, the phenomena of faking on personality assessments is a relevant concern in the selection process. Research regarding faking on personality assessments have revealing that faking and the distortion of responses does occur. In addition, research has been conducted to determine how to detect when faking occurs on a personality assessment. Furthermore, research has been conducted showing the individual characteristics does