Study Guide for Management Principles

Rachel is talkative, sociable, and adventurous. She loves to be the center of attention. Which of the 'Big Five' personality traits pertains to Rachel's characteristic behavior?

The concept of the Big Five personality traits predicts the individual’s behavior at work. The Big Five personality traits are extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to

Chapter five “Personality and Values” In this chapter I learned about the Big Five personality traits; extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience.

1. How can a manager build employee trust? Choose 1 answer A. Identify only very general job skill changes B. Provide employees information on industry growth potential from innovation C. Provide very general change information D. Identify and be negative about the change with employees E. Provide specific job loss and change information 2. A change vision must be developed and clearly conveyed to all members of the firm. What aspect of the change vision should management communicate to employees? A. Nonsupportive management views B. Vague images of the proposed organizational structure C. How the employees will be affected by the change D. A summary of major rumors regarding the change 3. What are the four types of strategic change? A.

The purpose of this report is to provide answers to the questions presented in the research project in the Rasmussen general psychology class. The first question ask was what are the five personality traits according to the prominent five factor model. According to the psychology.suite101 website (Pawlik-Kienlen, 2007) the big five personality traits are as follows:

a) Every person has a unique set of values and a personality that’s unique to them.

When I was in junior high and high school, I worked at a local retail store. During the school year, I worked at the store every day after school and on Saturdays. During the summer I would work every day (except Sundays). This job was very essential to my growth as a person. The owner of the store was a very effective manager and leader. The manager role involves many different functions, but it can all be summed up as: “managerial work involves interpersonal roles, informational roles, and decisional roles” (Mintzberg et al., 1998, p. 1) which requires several skills including “developing peer relationships, carrying out negotiations, motivating

The goal of open-book management is to get every employee thinking and acting like a business owner.

To discover the traits of the participants, the participants were given personality tests to discover their scores for the “Big Five” personality traits, otherwise known as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability. They were then asked the

1) Motivation stems from the Latin word "movere", which means to move. "Motivation is some driving force within individuals by which they attempt to achieve some goal in order to fulfill some need or expectation" It is clear from the case study that Commonwealth Bank applies a spectrum of motivational theories to promote good customer service. The behavior of people is revealed by what motivates them. Performance is the result of both ability and motivation: Performance = function (ability x motivation). There are two different categories of motivational theories - content theories and process theories. Commonwealth is applying two main types of theories. Content theories emphasizes on what motivates people. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Alderfer's ERG theory, Herzeberg's motivator-hygiene theory (Herzeberg's dual factors theory), and McClelland's learned needs or three-needs theory are some of the major content theories. The theories go in the specific things which actually motivate individuals at work and are concerned with identifying a person's needs and relative strengths. Process theories of motivation are about a cognitive rational process and concentrate on the psychological and behavioral processes that motivate an individual. Put simply, this is all about how people's needs influence and drive their behavior. People need to see what is in it for them and to sense that "fair play" is being exercised to all concerned. Clearly an understanding of this is foundational

3) Googleyness – bringing something new to the world and having qualities of intellectual humility

Small, medium or large companies, have one thing in common, make profit, and to make profit we need to make sure that the income has covered all the costs.

1. Developing employee skills is a challenge in almost any environment. What type of skills needs to be mostly developed for EMAL trainees?

The company I decided to write my final project on for Management Theories and Practices is Google. According to Google, the company was founded on September 4, 1998 by Sergey Brin & Larry Page. They founded the company in Menlo Park, California. The two founders were only college students at the time, pursuing PhDs in Computer Science. ("Management team," 2015.). Neither of them finished their degrees. Yet from there, the company took off. If you take a look at Alexa.com you 'll see that it monitors the popularity of websites on the internet and Google is number 1. That means Google is the most visited website in the entire world ("Top sites," 2015.). The paper I am writing today will be taking a closer look at the famous company itself, and the employees within keeping it running.

The art of creating an environment in which employees perform as individuals and cooperate towards the achievement of group, team and or organizational goals.