Personality, Perception and Attribution & Attitudes and Values

Personality: It is a set of different characteristics that shape a person´s behaviour.
About the personality there are various theories trying to explain the different angles of personalities:

• Trait Theory: The “Big Five” Personality Traits
• Integrative Approach
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Instrument
• Core self-evaluation (CSE): involves: Locus of control, Self-esteem, Generalized self-efficacy, and Emotional stability

Perception: How we interpret the others behaviour. 

• Key aspects: Our perspective, their characteristics and the environment.
• Barriers: Selective perception, Stereotyping, First-impression error, The false-consensus effect, and Self-fulfilling prophecies.
• Impression management: Self-enhancing, Other-enhancing, and Social identity-based 

Attribution: A responsability or a cause for the individual behaviour.

• Internal: Success?
• External: Failures?

Attitude: The personal response for the situations 

• ABC Model: Affect, behaviural intensions and cognition
• Work attitudes: Job Satisfaction, and Organizational commitment (Affective commitment, Continuance commitment, and Normative commitment)

Values:

 "Enduring beliefs that a specific mode of conduct or end state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end state of existence." (Rokeach, 1973, p. 5).

• Work Values: Achievement, Concern for others, Honesty, Fairness, etc.