Disposition

Examples of Disposition in the following topics:

• How Emotion and Mood Influence Behavior

  • Emotion and mood can affect temperament, personality, disposition, motivation, and initial perspectives and reactions.
  • Emotions and mood can affect temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation.
  • Emotions are reciprocal with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation.
  • If a person is satisfied at work, that condition may reduce levels of stress and help influence motivation and disposition.

• Other Important Trait Theories

  • The disposition theory, three fundamental traits, and HEXACO model of personality structure are applicable to the work place.
  • Some of these traits include Gordon Allport's dispositions, Hans Eysenck's three fundamental traits, and Michael Aston and Kibeom Lee's six dimensional HEXACO model of personality structure.
  • Gordon Allport's disposition theory includes cardinal traits, central traits, and secondary traits.

• Uses of the Financial Statement

  • Financial statements are used to understand key facts about the performance and disposition of a business and may influence decisions.
  • Readers of a financial statement are seeking to understand key facts about the performance and disposition of a business.

• The Trait-Theory Approach

  • Personality: Patterns of behavior, such as adaptability and comfort with ambiguity, and dispositional tendencies, such as motives and values, are associated with effective leadership.
  • Distal characteristics are more dispositional; that is, people are born with them.
  • The first premise states that effective leadership derives not from any one trait, but from an integrated set of cognitive abilities, social capabilities, and dispositional tendencies, with each set of traits adding to the influence of the other.
  • The premise suggests that distal attributes (such as dispositional attributes, cognitive abilities, and motives/values) come first and then lead to the development of proximal characteristics.

• Producing an Emotional Appeal

  • Finding words to match the speech context and audience's disposition is essential to producing an effective emotional appeal.

• Culture-Specific Nuances of Decision-Making

  • The Dispositional Model - Those who ascribe to this perspective acknowledge cultural differences in decision-making processes, alongside supporting additional research down this venue.
  • The Dynamic Model - Those who adhere to this perspective also recognize cross-culture differences in decision-making, but not as universally applicable as the dispositional model.

• Tattoos

  • The first written reference to the word, "tattoo" (or Samoan "Tatau") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship, the HMS Endeavour: "I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition".

• Characteristics of the Animal Body

  • The term body plan is the "blueprint" encompassing aspects such as symmetry, segmentation, and limb disposition.

• Purpose of appraisals and creating an appropriate appraisal process

  • "Second only to firing an employee, managers cite performance appraisal as the task they dislike the most", and employees generally have a similar disposition (Heathfield, Performance Appraisals Don't Work).

• The Challenge of Diversity

  • Globalization demands a diverse workforce, and assimilating varying cultures, genders, ages, and dispositions is of high value.