TOPIC 2: INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR, VALUES AND PERSONALITY

Personality in Organizations

Values in the Workplace

M - Motivation.
A - Ability.
R - Role Perception.
S - Situational Factors.

MARS Model of Individual Behavior and Results

ROLE PERCEPTION

ABILITY

The forces within a person that affects his or her direction, intensity and persistence of voluntary behavior.

SITUATIONAL FACTOR

MOTIVATION

Persistence

Intensity

Direction

The path along which people engage their effort

The amount of effort allocated to the goal

Continuing the effort for a certain amount of time.

The natural tendency and learned capabilities needed to complete a task successfully.

Aptitudes

Competencies

Learned capabilities

Person-job matching

Natural talent that helps people learn more efficiently and perform effectively.

Accomplished skills and knowledge.

Abilities, individual values, personality traits and other features of people that result in superior performance.

3 ways to match people with jobs

Developing employee abilities through training.

Redesigning job to fit person's existing abilities

Selecting qualified people.

Job description vs. Job specification

Job specification

Job description

The extent to which people understand the job duties (roles) assigned to them or expected of them.

3 components

Employees understand the priority of their various tasks and performance expectations.

Employees understand the preferred behaviors or procedures for accomplishing the assigned tasks.

Employees have accurate role perceptions when they understand the specific tasks assigned to them

The environmental conditions like given time bound, team members, budget, and work facilities that limits or facilitates behavior.

External Factors

Internal Factors

Can be control by people within the organization.

Beyond the employee’s and organization’s control

Internal practices

Leadership

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Organizational policies

Procedures

Consumer preferences

Economic conditions