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| Person-organization fit | Person-organization fit refers to the degree to which a person's values, personality, goals, and other characteristics match those of the organization. |
| Person-job fit | Person-job fit is the degree to which a person's skill, knowledge, abilities and other characteristics match the job demands. |
| Values | Values refer to stable life goals people have, reflecting what is most important to them. |
| Personality | Personality encompasses the relatively stable feelings, thoughts, and behavioral patterns a person has. |
| Openness | Openness is the degree to which a person is curious, original, intellectual, creative, and open to new ideas. |
| Conscientiousness | Conscientiousness refers to the degree to which a person is organized, systematic, punctual, achievement oriented, and dependable. |
| Extraversion | Extraversion is the degree to which a person is outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoys being in social situations. |
| Agreeableness | Agreeableness is the degree to which a person is nice, tolerant, sensitive, trusting, kind and warm. |
| Neuroticism | Neuroticism refers to the degree to which a person is anxious, irritable, aggressive, temperamental, and moody. |
| Positive affective | Positive affective people experience positive moods more frequently, tend to be happier at work, and their happiness spreads to the rest of the work environment. |
| Negative affective | Negative affective people experience negative moods with greater frequency, focus on the "glass half empty," and experience more anxiety and nervousness. |
| Self-monitoring | Self-monitoring refers to the extent to which people are capable of monitoring their actions and appearance in social situations. |
| Proactive personality | Proactive personality refers to a person's inclination to fix what is perceived to be wrong, change the status quo, and use initiative to solve problems. |
| Self-esteem | Self-esteem is the degree to which a person has an overall positive feelings about oneself. |
| Self-efficacy | Self-efficacy is a belief that one can perform a specific task successfully. |
| Internal locus of control | Internal locus of control refers to the belief that a person controls their own destiny and what happens to them is their own doing. |
| External locus of control | External locus of control refers to the belief that things happen because of other people, luck, or a powerful being. |
| Faking | Faking refers to answering questions in a way one thinks the company is looking for. |
| Perception | Perception may be defined as the process with which individuals detect and interpret environmental stimuli. |
| Self-enhancement bias | Self-enhancement bias refers to the tendency to overestimate our performance and capabilities and see ourselves in a more positive light than others see us. |
| Self-effacement bias | Self-effacement bias refers to the tendency to underestimate our performance, capabilities, and see events in a way that puts ourselves in a more negative light. |
| False consensus error | False consensus error refers to how we as human beings overestimate how similar we are to other people. |
| Stereotypes | Stereotypes are generalizations based on a perceived group characteristic. |
| Self-fulfilling prophecy | Self-fulfilling prophecy happens when an established stereotype causes one to behave in a certain way, which leads the other party to behave in a way that makes the stereotype come true. |
| Selective perception | Selective perception simply means that we pay selective attention to parts of the environment while ignoring other parts. |
| First impressions | First impressions are initial thoughts and perceptions we form about people, which tend to be stable and resilient to contrary information. |
| attribution | An attribution is the causal explanation we give for an observed behavior. |
| Internal attribution | Internal attribution refers to the belief that a behavior is caused by the internal characteristics of a person. |
| external attribution | An external attribution is explaining someone's behavior by referring to the situation. |
| Consensus | Consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency represent the three factors that are the key to understanding what kind of attributions we make. |
| Self-serving bias | Self-serving bias refers to the tendency to attribute our failures to the situation while attributing our successes to internal causes. |
