Tuesday, December 14, 2010



The "big five" are broad categories of personality traits. While there is a significant body of literature supporting this five-factor model of personality, researchers don't always agree on the exact labels for each dimension. However, these five categories are usually described as follows:


1.Extraversion: This trait includes characteristics such as excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness, and high amounts of emotional expressiveness.

2.Agreeableness: This personality dimension includes attributes such as trust, altruism, kindness, affection, and other prosocial behaviors.

3.Conscientiousness: Common features of this dimension include high levels of thoughtfulness, with good impulse control and goal-directed behaviors. Those high in conscientiousness tend to be organized and mindful of details.

4.Neuroticism: Individuals high in this trait tend to experience emotional instability, anxiety, moodiness, irritability, and sadness.
5.Openness: This trait features characteristics such as imagination and insight, and those high in this trait also tend to have a broad range of interests.

These dimensions represent broad areas of personality. Research has demonstrated that these groupings of characteristics tend to occur together in many people. For example, individuals who are sociable tend to be talkative. However, these traits do not always occur together. Personality is a complex and varied and each person may display behaviors across several of these dimensions.


Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Machiavellianism



1. High Mach is pragmatic, maintains emotional distance and believes that ends justify means.

2. They manipulate more, win more and persuaded less and persuade others more.

3. They also flourish when they interact face to face with others.

4. Loves minimum number of rules and regulations, thus allowing latitude for improvisation.

5. High Mach make good employees in jobs that require bargaining skills or that offer substantial rewards for winning.

(Courtesy by OUM OB Module)

Monday, November 29, 2010

Job Satisfaction



1. Is an individual's general attitude toward his/her job.

2. Single global rating and summation can be used to measure job satisfaction.

3. Job satisfaction has a positive and direct impact on employee's performance.

4. Satisfaction and Productivity - Satisfied workers always seems to be productive.

5. Satisfaction and Absenteeism - Satisfied workers have a low rate of absenteeism.

6. Satisfaction and Turnover - Level of turnover is low for satisfied workers.

7. There are 4 action how employee can express their dissatisfaction

Exit - Done by active and destructive workers.

Voice - Done by active and constructive workers.

Loyalty - Done by passive and constructive workers.

Neglect - Done by passive and destructive workers.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Maslow Theory



1. According to Abraham Maslow humans have five needs that make up the levels or hierarchy called the most important of which are not essential to and from the easy to the difficult to achieve or obtain.

2. Human motivation is strongly influenced by the fundamental needs that need to be fulfilled.

3. Maslow must meet the needs of the most important needs first and then increased to a less important. To be able to feel the pleasure of a level of need should be satisfied first that needs to be on the lower level.

4. Five (5) Maslow’s basic needs – is based on the most important needs that are not so crucial:

Physiological Needs – Examples are: Clothing/apparel, food/food, shelter/home, and biological needs such as defecation, urination, breathing and so forth.
Safety and Security Needs – Examples such as: Free from occupation, free from the threat, free from pain, free from terror and so forth.
Social Needs – Example is: have friends, have a family, needs the love of the opposite sex, and others.
Award Needs – Examples: praise, awards, decorations, gifts, and many others.
Self Actualization Needs – Is the need and desire to act as they pleased according to their talents and interests.

Courtesy from http://www.ict-learningnow.com/

Friday, November 12, 2010

Plain Black


1. People can look pious.

2. Haj or not, you always can find one.

3. I've found one before.

4. At first sight, i thought it is hog.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna

Monday, September 20, 2010

Greener




1. I've heard a lots of bollock for the past 8 years.

2. And I don't bothered to hear one or two now.

3. But it's sad to let my friends see the back of me.

4. They are good people and true friend. Not just colleague at work.

5. Hopefully, I'll be at the greener part of the field.

6. Even I'm dead sure there will be no friends like now.