bipolar disorder. The person is extremely happy or sad with no middle area. Even doctors have a difficult time diagnosing this disorder. The doctor must consider hereditary factors, biological influences, states of consciousness, and the person’s personality. All these factors play a part in the diagnoses and treatment of bipolar disorder. General Behavior Diagnosing bipolar people is difficult because of their general behavior. Bipolar people do show outward signs that a problem exist. However
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What is Personality? -Pattern of psychological characteristics (traits) that differentiate us from others and lead us to act consistently across situations -Know the defense mechanisms be able to identify which defense mechanism the person is using -If a person is having a problem, be able to identify which stage that person developed that fixation. Personality consists of traits • Traits: relatively enduring predispositions that influence our behavior across many situations Example: extroversion
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Short notes of ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Chapters 1 to 15 www.vustudents.ning.com ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR Organizational Behavior (OB) is the study and application of knowledge about how people, individuals, and groups act in organizations. Contributing disciplines to the OB field: Organizational behavior is an applied behavioral science that is built upon contributions from a number of behavioral disciplines. Psychology is the science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes
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MAN 6245- PMBA Name _________________________________ Organizational Behavior Dr. Kroeck EXAM 1 STUDY QUESTIONS Summer-Fall 2010 Part I: Choose the ONE BEST answer. 1. Each of the following is a major category of abilities EXCEPT: - B) Creativity 2. In Deci's theory of intrinsic motivation, the enjoyment gained from task-challenge decreases when:
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LASA 2: Exploring Personality Theories Part I: Apply the personality theories to your personal life experience by answering the following questions. (Each paragraph below should be 200 – 400 words.) 1. The Five Factor Model of Personality: Explain where you fall on each of the FIVE dimensions or traits in this theory. Discuss whether you feel you were “born with” this trait or if you feel this trait developed through experiences in your environment (such as family experiences or other
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Organizational Behavior: 1/10/13 * Real life decision making is not rational * “Sunk cost bias” – violates economic assumption of reality * ex: $20 auction * Escalation * Influences of Escalation * Project features encourage it * Psychological factors encourage it * Social factors encourage it * Structural factors encourage it * ex: Vietnam war – committed large number of troops to combat * Reduce escalation of commitment
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find companionship. On the other hand, identity describes things that make a certain individual unique from all other people. They are the characters that are different only to you. Self-analysis is the process of examining and studying emotions, personality and the behavior of a specific individual. It seeks to understand the conscious and subconscious mind of an individual. With everybody born unique, people are born into families that were born into other families. Culture of an individual or a family
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THIS DOCUMENT IS MEANT TO HELP YOU STUDY FOR YOUR UPCOMING EXAM. IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE AN EXHAUSTIVE GUIDE TO EVERYTHING THAT WILL BE COVERED ON THE TEST. PLEASE STUDY YOUR POWERPOINTS, TEXTBOOK, AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND USE THIS GUIDE ONLY AS A SUPPLEMENT TO YOUR STUDYING. Challenges of HRM 1. Briefly explain the difference between Outsourcing and Offshoring. Outsourcing: wanting to focus an organizations activities on what they do best, people are working more on contract base or part-time
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education for the organisation. The study applied mixed methods approach by combining qualitative and quantitative approach. The interview with employees setting up to understand the current rewards and performance dimension where nine rewards categories and twelve performance dimensions formed. Clustered random sampling protocol was employed. The questionnaires were distributed to all level of staff across a wide range of banks with total 232 responses from Finland and 336 from Hong Kong. Findings
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Personality and Individual Differences 39 (2005) 317–329 www.elsevier.com/locate/paid GoldbergÕs ÔIPIPÕ Big-Five factor markers: Internal consistency and concurrent validation in Scotland Alan J. Gow *, Martha C. Whiteman, Alison Pattie, Ian J. Deary Department of Psychology, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK Received 12 May 2004; received in revised form 16 July 2004; accepted 17 January 2005 Available
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