Variables Influencing the Individual Human Behaviors (The Persons)
The Persons
Behavior of individuals cannot be measure by having its single characteristics. Therefore verity of differences might be useful to explain said behavior i.e.
• Skills & Abilities
• Personality
• Perceptions
• Attitudes
• Values
• Ethics
SKILLS & ABILITIES
To perform verity of task by mental and physical capacities are called skills and abilities. This comes from knowledge, learning, and experiences.
PERSONALITY
There are five major dimensions considered to be consistent personality’s components. The said dimensions are conscientiousness, extroversion/introversion, openness to experience, emotional stability, and agreeableness.
PERCEPTIONS
Perception is the mental process to pay attention on some cues and stimuli exists in our environment. Perceptions are of two types, social perception and physical perception. Social perception is a process in which we gather, select and interpret the information regarding how we view others and ourselves. While physical perception is the same but focuses on physical objects not people.
ATTITUDES
The set of behaviors, beliefs and feelings are called attitudes. Job satisfaction is the major attitude related to working environment. Meanwhile other five factors contributing to job satisfaction are pay, job itself, promotion, supervisor and co-worker relations. There is complex relationship between work performance and job satisfaction but influenced by multiple personal and organizational factors.
VALUES
The beliefs related to what is important, desirable and worthwhile are called values. The system of persons’ value is based upon the way he/she prioritizes and organizes values. There are different types of values like terminal values (based on the goals that someone wants to achieve), instrumental values (the tool through a person use to accomplish its goals) and cultural values (that affect personally).
ETHICS
Work related values are called the ethics of an employee. A school of thought that believes what is wrong or right depends on the culture and situation, holds relativist’s view of ethics. On the other hand those who believe that ethical standards can be applied in all cultures and situations.
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