Understanding Self-Esteem, Personality, and Job Satisfaction

How to Improve Low Self-Esteem

1. Supportive Environment

• Show concern for personal problems, interests, status, and contributions.

2. Tailored Work

• Offer work that suits the employee's values, skills, and abilities.

3. Supervisor-Employee Cohesion

• Strive for supervisor-employee cohesiveness and build trust.

4. Self-Management

• Have faith in each employee's self-management ability.

Six Important Elements of Self-Esteem

1. Live Consciously

• Focus on everything you do and who you are doing it with.

2. Self-Acceptance

• Don't judge yourself on every action.

3. Personal Responsibility

• Take action and responsibility for your actions.

4. Self-Assertiveness

• Be original and positive.

5. Live Purposefully

6. Personal Integrity

• Have an honest personality.

The Big Five Personality Traits

1. Extraversion

• High: Outgoing, talkative, social, positive
• Low: Introverted, reserved, quiet

2. Agreeableness

• High: Adaptable, kind
• Low: Challenging, cruel, tough, cold

3. Conscientiousness

• High: Focused, responsible, achievement-oriented
• Low: Flexible, sloppy, irresponsible, easily distracted

4. Emotional Stability

• High: Stable, self-confident, relaxed, unworried
• Low: Unstable, lack of self-confidence, depressed, angry

5. Openness to Experience

• High: Explorer, thinking, imaginative, curious
• Low: Preserver, unimaginative, traditional, bound to routine

Personality Types

1. Sensing

• Preference for perceiving directly through the five senses.

2. Intuiting

• Preference for perceiving indirectly through the unconscious.

3. Thinking

• Preference for judging based on a logical, objective, and impersonal process.

4. Feeling

• Preference for directing perception and judgment outwardly.

Intelligence

• Mental abilities
• Verbal comprehension
• Numerical reasoning
• Spatial ability
• Memory
• Perceptual speed
• Inductive reasoning

Types of Values

Instrumental Values

• Working hard

Terminal Values

• Work values: What a person wants out of work in general

Attitudes

• How a person behaves in a consistent way toward something.

Factors of Job Satisfaction

Need Fulfillment

• Fulfilling required needs leads to higher satisfaction.

Discrepancies

• Gap between satisfaction and goals.

Value Attainment

Equity

• Comparing self with others.

Effort-Reward Balance

Dispositional Factors

• Genetic components that influence personality.

Consequences of Job Satisfaction

Motivation

Absenteeism

Withdrawal Cognitions

Turnover

Job Performance

Emotions

Felt Emotions

• Actual emotions.

Displayed Emotions

• Emotions we are showing.