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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Challenge of Diversity

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

• How Attitude Influences Behavior

  • When an organization appeals to people's logic and explains why it is assigning tasks or pursuing a strategy, it can generate a more positive disposition towards that task or strategy (and vice versa, if the employee does not recognize why a task is logical).

• Diversity Bias

  • This bias relies on a tendency toward homophily (the tendency of similar types of individuals to form groups), as in-group favoritism is the tendency for individuals to provide preferential treatment to those of a similar perspective or disposition.

• Developing Leadership Skills

  • Personal traits and behavioral dispositions can help or hinder a person's leadership effectiveness.
  • Leadership traits can be broken down into 6 categories: Cognitive Capacities, Dispositional Attributes, Motives/Values, Social Capacities, Problem Solving Skills, Expertise & Knowledge.

• The Impact of Culture on an Organization

  • Identify the central components of an organization or company that result from the influence cultural dispositions

• Emotional Leadership

  • The EI trait model focuses not on skills but on personality characteristics and behavioral dispositions such as empathy, consideration, and self-awareness.