| Personality traits | Enduring tendencies to feel, think, and act in certain ways.
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| Extraversion | The tendency to experience positive emotions and moods and to feel good about oneself and the rest of the world.
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| Negative affectivity | The tendency to experience negative emotions and moods, to feel distressed, and to be critical of oneself and others.
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| Agreeableness | The tendency to get along well with other people.
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| Conscientiousness | The tendency to be careful, scrupulous, and persevering.
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| Openness to experience | The tendency to be original, have broad interests, be open to a wide range of stimuli, be daring, and take risks.
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| Internal locus of control | The tendency to locate responsibility for one's fate within oneself.
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| External locus of control | The tendency to locate responsibility for one's fate in outside forces and to believe that one's own behavior has little impact on outcomes.
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| Self-esteem | The degree to which individuals feel good about themselves and their capabilities.
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| Need for achievement | The extent to which an individual has a strong desire to perform challenging tasks well and to meet personal standards for excellence.
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| Need for affiliation | The extent to which an individual is concerned about establishing and maintaining good interpersonal relations, being liked, and having other people around them get along with one another.
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| Need for power | The extent to which an individual desires to control or influence others.
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| Terminal value | A lifelong goal or objective that an individual seeks to achieve.
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| Instrumental value | A mode of conduct that an individual seeks to follow.
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| Norms | Unwritten, informal codes of conduct that prescribe how people should act in particular situations.
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| Value system | The terminal and instrumental values that are guiding principles in an individual's life.
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| Attitude | A collection of feelings and beliefs.
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| Job satisfaction | The collection of feelings and beliefs that managers have about their current jobs.
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| Organizational commitment | The collection of feelings and beliefs that managers have about their organization as a whole.
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| Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) | Behaviors that are not required of organizational members but that contribute to and are necessary for organizational efficiency, effectiveness, and gaining a competitive advantage.
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| Mood | A feeling or state of mind.
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| Emotions | Intense, relatively shortlived feelings.
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| Emotional intelligence | The ability to understand and manage one's own moods and emotions and the moods and emotions of other people.
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| Organizational culture | The shared set of beliefs, expectations, values, norms, standards for behavior, and work solutions that influence the ways in which individuals, groups, and teams interact with one another and cooperate to achieve organizational goals.
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| Attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) framework | A model that explains how personality may influence organizational culture.
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| Organizational socialization | The process by which newcomers learn an organization's values and norms and acquire the work behaviors necessary to perform jobs effectively.
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