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Introduction
to Organizational Behavior
Week 2
Agenda
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Big 5 Survey & Review
Teamwork on Case Study “Steroids in Baseball”
Class Presentation & More Review
Quiz & Preview (if we have time)
Question and Answer
Your Big 5 Personality Reports
Review
• What is personality?
• What are the Big 5?
• Why can knowledge
about personality be
useful?
What do you see on your report?
• Your score
• Average class score
• Measurement on a scale
• Does this fit you?
Case Study: MLB’s
Drug Problem
• Read article
• Discuss in small groups
• Answer questions
 There are many alternative answers, so try to
generate multiple explanations or a different line of
reasoning.
 This is a good practice for exams, so take your
own notes!
• Present & discuss in plenary
Questions to Consider
• Which personality traits may influence a baseball
player’s behavior?
 Which traits (if any) seem irrelevant ?
• Which situational factors influence behavior?
 Do any of the situational factors seem to have a stronger
impact than other factors?
• How can we use interactions to explain behavior?
 Apply each of the 3 interactions to further explain the
players’ behavior.
• As a consultant, how could you create a plan to
reduce illegal substance abuse using the PXS
Interaction Framework?
The PXS Interaction Framework
• Interaction 1
 Different people react to the same situation in
different ways.
• Interaction 2
 Certain people can influence situations more than
others.
• Interaction 3
 Different people select themselves into different
situations.
Useful? Not useful?
• Personality is not a guaranteed accurate predictor.
 Situations
• Norms, Strong Situations
 Measurement Problems
• Projection, fundamental attribution error, Barnum effect, stereotypes…
 Exact behaviors
• Single observation, single Behavior
 Self Monitoring
• Behave according to situational demands
• Personality will predict behavior when…
 Raters are familiar with the person being rated.
 There are multiple behavioral observations.
 There are multiple observers.
Q&A
Almost done…
… or do will still have time for the quiz?
• Next week’s lecture:
Motivating People in Organizations:
Motivation & Job Attitudes
• Have a great weekend!
True or False?
Agreeableness is commonly associated with
success in jobs that require interaction with
others and the ability to adapt to many
situations.
The CEO of the Albacore Corporation wants to
use a personality test in order to predict which
workers will be able to generally achieve.
Which Big 5 trait should the Albacore Corp.
focus on?
a.) Conscientiousness
b.) Agreeableness
c.) Extraversion
d.) Openness to Experience
Tarik is not unsocial, but he doesn’t like to interact
with many people. He needs to be alone in order to
regenerate energy. According to the Big 5, Tarik
probably should not take a job in/as…
a.) data analyst
b.) research and design
c.) sales management
d.) a university as a professor
Catherine tends to be compassionate, cooperative and
emotionally stable. According to organizational implications of
the Big 5, one could predict that Catherine would…
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a.) have more issues than anyone could ever deal with
b.) have leadership capabilities
c.) have individual creativity
d.) be less likely to have mental diseases
Which Big 5 trait is associated with the ability
to learn from training?
a.) Neuroticism
b.) Openness to Experience
c.) Agreeableness
d.) Extraversion
And now, seriously:
Have a good weekend!