CHAPTER 4 Personality and Values LEARNING OBJECTIVES After studying this chapter‚ students should be able to: 1. Define personality‚ describe how it is measured‚ and explain the factors that determine an individual’s personality. 2. Describe the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality framework and assess its strengths and weaknesses. 3. Identify the key traits in the Big Five personality model. 4. Demonstrate how the Big Five traits predict behavior at work. 5.
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orally‚ centring interesting subjects such as tragic love. Typically‚ ballads are fairly simple‚ they do no tend to focus on characterization‚ they have a rapid dialogue‚ they are usually in the form of quatrains‚ and rhyming in abcb. The poem "Bonny Barbara Allan" is a typical ballad since it follows the norm by applying four major elements; it is written in quatrains‚ has an abcb rhyming scheme pattern‚ rapid dialogues‚ and a lack of characterization. Throughout the poem‚ some words’ importance are
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his own life in order to save it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau VALUES When your values are clear to you‚ making decisions becomes easier. --Roy E. Disney Values – Beliefs of a person or social group‚ a set of emotional rules that people follow to help make the right decisions in life‚ to decide what is right and wrong‚ and how to act in various situations. ---Annemieke Cloosterman (http://www.mindstructures.com/2010/02/the-meaning-of-values/) ETHICS Ethics (or Moral Philosophy) is concerned
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What is the value of examinations? Einstein once remarked‚ "Success is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." This mantra is often repeated‚ and has been the motto of many desiring such success. Yet‚ in today’s world‚ there have been an increasing number of examples of people who have succeeded without much effort. So then‚ is hard work still required for success‚ or can it even guarantee success? Judging from evidence present in the world‚ hard work has never been able
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norms and values – page 1 of 3 NORMS AND VALUES The previous two articles talked about cultures. Norms and values define culture. Norms Norms can be defined as attitudes and behaviours common to members of a particular group‚ or what they believe is “normal”. For example‚ most cultures require that people wear clothes. Some even have laws to enforce this dictum: in many western countries‚ a naked person in public will be arrested with a charge of “indecent exposure”. We have norms
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The value of freedom of speech | | Everybody has a right to his or her own opinion. Freedom of speech involves toleration of what may seem to you a great deal of nonsense and even of matters which are in bad taste. John Stuart Mill in his essay “On Liberty in Utilitarianism Etc.” stated his belief on the matter by saying‚ “There ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing‚ as a matter of ethical conviction‚ any doctrine‚ however immoral it might be considered.” | | |
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college heavily outweigh the drawbacks. Critics argue that college is not worth the cost‚ because a portion of the population cannot afford it‚ but that argument does not weaken the value of college. Those who cannot afford the cost of going to college should simply not go as the financial burden can be devastating to a family economically‚ but that does not diminish
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use of time o Linearity versus cyclicity of time o Temporal orientations towards the past‚ the present and the future Time economicity: Examples are timetables‚ deadlines. Measurement of parking meter time. Attitudes towards the money value of time has an influence on marketing. Consumer behaviour depends on the time saving effects of products. Monochronic versus polychronic use of time Hall (1983) (M time and P time). M time people stick to schedules while p time people stress the
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1 The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman A predilection for the high drama of war stories and an appreciation for history as narrative led me explore Barbara W. Tuchman’s The Guns of August ‚ a dramatic‚ comprehensive and painstakingly detailed account of the beginnings of World War One. Having read her history of fourteenth century Europe‚ A Distant Mirror‚ I was eager to see how she would apply her style of taking important individuals of the period and showing how events unfolded through
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Most authors convey an important message or idea throughout their noevls to give a greater understanding to their readers. In Barbara Kingsolvers novel‚ ’The Bean Trees’‚ a strong idea that was developed was the possiublity of new beginnings. ’The Bean Trees’ is the story of the protagonist Taylor Greer‚ who starts off on a journey from her home town of Kentucky to Arizona. Along the way she she is given an abandoned child which is the start to her learning about motherhood‚ becoming a women‚ the
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