After the Hawthorne Studies, many managers believed that if you kept people happy, they would be productive. A review of the research on this relationship shows if satisfaction does have a positive effect on productivity, that effect is fairly small. G. Implications for managers. There is relatively strong evidence that committed and satisfied employees have lower rates of turnover and absenteeism. Also, the belief that making employees happy will make them productive needs to be re-examined.
Personality is defined as a combination of psychological traits that classifies a person.
A. Predicting behavior from personality traits. Six personality traits have been extensively examined to determine if behavior can be predicted. Locus of control can either be internal or external. Authoritarianism is defined as a measure of a person's belief that there should be status and power differences among people in organizations. Machiavellianism is a measure of the degree to which people are pragmatic, maintain emotional distance, and believe that ends justify means.