Second class notes:

Personality, Perception& Attribution; Attitudes& Values

There are some individual differences in which attitudes, perceptions, values play an important role on the main topic we analyze in the class, and that is just because those kind of factors differ from one individual to another. Furthermore, personality means that are some characteristics that influence an individual’s behavior.

Personality dispositions include: emotions, cognitions attitudes, expectancies, fantasies.

Taking into account Source: http://www.business.unr.edu/faculty/simmonsb/mgt486/amjjobattitudes.pdf i think that the most important role of personality dispositions are attitudes because if it is performance well enough, it can endure in individual-level organizational very well constructed. But not only like that, attitudes represents a capability that represents good competencies  with the purpose of responding to change dynamics into an organization development or even in every single society that every person is involved in. this is for sure a key of behavior and adaptability that make a combinative capability. Consequently, attitudes is a tendency in which is expressed by evaluating an entuty with some degree of favor or disfavor. I think that our tendency to look only for one path doesn’t allow us to progress in a specific point without paying attention to the others.

Now, talking about personality in organizations we can analyze first a very common issue that is the Core self-evaluation (CSE): is a broad set of personality traits that refers to self-concept. It is comprised of: locus of control, self-esteem, generalized self-efficacy, emotional stability. The most important ones for me to pay more attention as an individual tendency to accentuate the positive aspects of himself or herself are:

·         Locus of control: An individual’s generalized belief about internal control (self-control) versus external control (control by the situation or by others). Now according to source: http://www.jstor.org/pss/25123901?searchUrl=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Facc%3Doff%26Query%3Dwhat%2Bis%2Blocus%2Bof%2Bcontrol%26gw%3Djtx%26prq%3Dlocus%2Bof%2Bcontrol%26hp%3D25%26wc%3Don%26acc%3Doff&Search=yes

Locus of control play an important role on ethics and the education we have got during the whole life and also the behavior control we have in a specific case.

·         Self efficacy: An individual’s general belief that he or she is capable of meeting job demands in a wide variety of situations. Source: Retrieved from January 2011: http://www.eruptingmind.com/what-is-self-efficacy-self-respect/

You have to believe in yourself in order to do things right and to be confortable in what you are doing. That will make you a big advantage faceing the issues or problems in live.

Attribution Theory:

•A theory that explains how individuals pinpoint the causes of their own behavior and that of others.

•Internal attribution (something within one’s control)

•External attribution (something outside one’s control)

There is an ABC model as an attitude wich means Affect ( like I don’t like my classmates ), Behavioral intentions ( like I want to go to another university ) and Cognition ( I belief that my girlfriend cheat on me). This is a model in wich we can analize the common attitudes people make.

A job satisfaction source:http://www.egestionar.com.ar/HR%20Job.htm is when people is confortable and very pleasure on a job experience or something made that caused a lot of emotion. The point is that is due to a work attitude that every person experiments during the whole live. Besides in order to get the success its neccesarily to have a good organizational commitment that consist in: affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. Taking into account source: Gregorio Martin-Castro, Jose Emilio Navas-Lopez, Pedro Lopez-Saez and Elsa Alama-Salazar. Departamento de organización de empresas, Universidad complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. “ Organizational capital as competitive advantage of the firm”: I can complement that depending on delegate in a company and distribute the employees regarding their capabilities, the structure will be for sure a good complement to work in group and have a good organization to achieve the expected goal. That is a competitive advantage for the company or the organization.

Source: Gregorio Martin-Castro, Jose Emilio Navas-Lopez, Pedro Lopez-Saez and Elsa Alama-Salazar. Departamento de organización de empresas, Universidad complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. “ Organizational capital as competitive advantage of the firm”: talks about values and it is good explained there that values is the utility of the resource for successful competition in a certain industry, I think value interacts with the relation of the capabilities and resources and that makes a good strategy for the conditions in the organization to fulfill. However exist a work values that are presented and has some sort of interaction with a good quality of values, those are achievement, concern for others, honesty and fairness. Consequently the work will last for a lot of time as a good strategy to carry on their daily activities.

Question:

To what do you attribute the success of JICA?

JICA: Japan International Cooperation agency. It is a part of the government in order to reduce poverty and protect the people who really need help. Japanese government really helps a lot to these kind of people with their own volunteers that are sent to different countries for make their contribution to get the world peace. Those volunteers do not get any earnings or salary, its their motivation to help and teach people who really need a hand. For them it’s a pleasure to go to different villages and cities only for help the others. Japanese government provides to these volunteers only a few things to get by in those places they go, such us: food, accommodation, tickets for their transportation, etc. Just only to survive and do well their commitment. In fact, that is a good attribution and motivation for those voluntarees to make a good job. JICA exist since 30 years ago and has carried on just because the felling that every volunteer has to get improve those people who really need help. Volunteers like in a completely way to go to those places and collaborate with the social environment because if people like that doesn’t help, who will?. I think JICA will continue increasing a lot of success because there are a lot of people waiting for help to get better in any aspect of poverty, education, etc.