purchase products. What influences them to buy one specific item over another. The effect of personality traits on private brand consumer tendencies Herstein, Ram; Sigal Tifferet; Abrantes, José Luís; Lymperopoulos, Constantine; Albayrak, Tahir; et al. Cross Cultural Management19.2 (2012): 196-214. Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between three personality traits (individualism, materialism and the "need for cognition") and two characteristics of shoppers
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Performance of Garment Factory Workers in Relation to Personality Traits and Work Related Attitudes Abstract The purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship of job performance of the garments factories workers with personality traits and work related attitudes. Five hundred two workers were selected purposively as respondents. In order to measure the variables of the present study, the Bengali versions of big five personality test, job involvement scale, organizational commitment
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Introduction According to the theory of leadership, there are many definitions relating to the trait of leaders. The concept of leadership can be defined as a potential to motivate their followers and be able to drive them to accomplish their objective (Robbins et al, 2010:316). Moreover, the main characteristics of leaders should consist of the ability to illustrate the beneficial ways for the majority and persuade their followers to accept the most significant aim to be successfully (Yukl 2013:22)
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Situational Factor on Personality-Performance Relationship: An Empirical Study of The Taiwan’s Office Machinery Sales Force. By Kuang-Hui Chiu Tsai Chen The second article: Leadership and Organizational Culture: Linking CEO Characteristics to Cultural Values. By Tomas R. Gilberson, Christian J. Resick, Marcus W. Dickson, Jacqueline K. Mitchelson, Kenneth R. Randall and Malissa A. Clark. The third article (from reference list of the first article): The Big Five Personality Traits and Individual Job
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about their personalities but also about their abilities. Organizations should strive to ensure the people they hire are strong enough to use their abilities on the job and effectively utilize their abilities effectively. In organizations, human resources apartment plays a role to select individuals who have the abilities needed to suit different kinds of job and task, and trains employees to enhance their abilities levels. Theory Analyze Personality According to Holland (1985) personality-job fit
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Personality and Individual Differences 47 (2009) 675–684 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Personality and Individual Differences journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/paid Review Personality, values, and motivation Laura Parks a,*, Russell P. Guay b,1 a b James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807, United States University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t In this manuscript we review the constructs of
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Running Head: Online Game Addiction Perception of and Addiction to Online Games as a Function of Personality Traits Searle Huh University of Southern California and Nicholas David Bowman Michigan State University Online Publication Date: April 26, 2008 Journal of Media Psychology, V 13, No. 2, Spring, 2008 Abstract With the growing popularity of online video games, there have been anecdotal reports suggesting that these games are highly
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Association between Personality and Empathy The ability to empathise is an important factor in day to day interactions and influences the development of moral reasoning and an effective control of aggression (del Barrio, Aluja, Garcia, 2004) although Penner, Fritzsche, Craiger and Freifield (1995) argues that although prosocial behaviour is usually linked with empathy, the findings insist that it is instead situational. Personality trait ratings and the ability to interpret facial expressions
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Individual Personality Matter Meenakshi Handa and Aastha Gulati Abstract The purpose of the present study is to explore the relationship between personality and employee engagement amongst frontline personnel in the organized retail industry in India. In particular, the study seeks to examine the relationship between two personality traits, extraversion and conscientiousness with engagement amongst frontline employees. The Utrecht work engagement scale (2003) and Big Five Personality scale (McCrae
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MGT 321 Professor Martin Earl Roach December 09, 2013 LEADER’S SELF-INSIGHT’S Leader’s self-insight’s is a person’s particular nature or personality and qualities making that individual unique capability in gaining an accurate and deep understanding, of the situation at hand. Leaders display traits through patterns in their behavior (Draft, 2011, p. 33). The leader’s self insight exercises taking the form of questionnaires, scenarios and activities provides self-assessments
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