The big five personality dimensions are – extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and openness to experience. Ideally, these personality dimensions are that correlate positively. The individuals who exhibit traits associated with a strong sense of purpose, obligation and persistence generally perform better than those who do not. Physical and intellectual qualities Physical differences among individuals [...]
Self-efficacy is a person’s belief about his or her chances of successfully accomplishing a specific task. “Self-efficacy arises from the gradual acquisition of complex, cognitive, social, linguistic, and/or physical skills through experience”. There is strong linkage between high self-efficacy expectations and success in widely varied physical and mental tasks, anxiety reduction, addiction control, pain tolerance [...]
Self-esteem is a belief about one’s own worth based on and overall self-evaluation. Self esteem denotes the extent to which individuals consistently regard themselves as capable, successful, important and worthy individuals. Self esteem is an important personality factor that determined how individuals perceive themselves. Self-esteem is an important to self concept, i.e. the way individuals [...]
Essentially, self concept is the overall image or awareness we have of ourselves. It includes all those perceptions of ‘’I” and “me” together with the feelings, beliefs and values associated with them. Self concept is a cluster of selves. Self-concept exerts a powerful influence, affecting the way we perceive, judge and behave. Self-concept provides us [...]
The personality is the quality of an individual behavior as evident from his mode of thinking, attitudes, interests, beliefs, capacities, values, aptitudes and philosophy of life. His physical, mental, temperamental and emotional characteristic constitutes his personality. He has certain traits called personality traits, which are found in his behavior consistently. His traits remain unchanged though [...]
It is special task of management to look beyond the day’s work and think about potential future problems. Next year situation may not be the same. In five year’s time, the scene may be completely transformed, bringing new opportunities and new dangers. It is vital, therefore, for the managers to think ahead. If they are [...]
Relationship is one the words often used, but taken for granted. We know what it means. We know relationships are important. We know relationships can be difficult. We know relationships can bring great happiness and sadness. But what actually is a relationship in the context of human behavior? A relationship is a connection between two [...]
A habit is a tendency of a person to behave in the same way as he has behaved in past. It is repetition of an action in similar circumstances. It is learned through repetition. It is automatic, needing little effort or action, once it has been established well. Formation Every activity of a person results [...]
The mind is a function of the body and it cannot exist independently. The body and mind are interrelated and interact with each other. The mind is a result of various mental processes like feeling, wishing, thinking, knowing, remembering and reasoning. The mind grows as body grows. With every experience the mind grows further. Mind [...]
A human skill is a proficiency in the performance of a task. Human skills are four types. They are Motor Skill Social Skill Economic skill Leisure skill Motor Skill: A motor skill is an integration of muscular activity for performance of a complicated act. Motor skill is an action which can be performed to do [...]
