{"id":63,"date":"2025-11-28T14:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/uvicpeopleteamsandorganizations\/?post_type=chapter&p=63"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:55:53","slug":"chapter-2-new","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/uvicpeopleteamsandorganizations\/chapter\/chapter-2-new\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 2: Self-Awareness, Personality, Values & Motivation","rendered":"Chapter 2: Self-Awareness, Personality, Values & Motivation"},"content":{"raw":"

CHAPTER 2: Self-Awareness, Personality, Values & Motivation<\/strong><\/h1>\r\n

Learning Objectives<\/strong>
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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    Explain what self-awareness<\/strong> is and why it matters for academic, personal, and professional success.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    Describe how personality traits<\/strong> influence behaviour, communication, and teamwork.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    Identify your core personal values<\/strong> and understand how they guide decisions and work preferences.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    Explain the concept of person\u2013organization fit<\/strong> and why alignment between values and work environments matters.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    Describe the basics of motivation<\/strong> and understand how intrinsic and extrinsic drivers influence behaviour.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t

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    Apply these concepts to reflect on your own tendencies, strengths, and areas for growth.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

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    Self-Awareness, Personality, and Values<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

    This chapter explores who you are as a person and how understanding yourself can improve your relationships, decisions, and performance in school and at work. This chapter begins with self-awareness<\/strong> \u2014 the ability to accurately understand your personality, tendencies, values, strengths, and blind spots. Self-awareness is a powerful foundation for personal growth, teamwork, leadership, and career development.<\/p>\r\n

    You will learn how psychologists describe personality traits<\/strong>, how your values<\/strong> shape your decisions, and why different people are motivated by different things. These ideas come together in person\u2013organization fit<\/strong>, a concept that helps you understand why some work environments feel energizing and others feel draining. The chapter also connects these ideas to motivation<\/strong>, offering an early framework for understanding what drives your behaviour and how to align your choices with what truly matters to you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    Personality<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n

    Personality refers to the relatively stable patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that make each person unique. Although personality does not determine everything, it influences how people communicate, react to stress, collaborate on teams, and make decisions in school and workplace settings.<\/p>\r\n

    The most commonly used framework in Organizational Behaviour is the Big Five personality traits<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n