The text defines personality as "a person's relatively stable feelings, thoughts, and behavioral patterns", While values are "stable life goals, reflecting what is most important to them"

1. Pick one of the "Big Five Personality Traits" that details the most important trait for your current job or a position in which you want to eventually be.

2. Describe why this is the most important trait.

3. Give an example of how this personality trait aligns with one of your professional goals.

Please answer in 150 words or more.

Chapter 2 Personality, Attitudes, and Work Behaviors Figure 2.5 The Big Five Personality Traits Trait Description Openness Curious, original, intellectual, creative, and open to new ideas. Conscientiousness Organized, systematic, punctual, achievement oriented, and dependable. Extraversion Outgoing, talkative, sociable, and enjoys being in social situations. Agreeableness Affable, tolerant, sensitive, trusting, kind, and warm. Neuroticism Anxious, irritable, temperamental, and moody. Source: Goldberg, L. R. (1990). An alternative "description of personality": The big-five factor structure. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 59, 1216-1229. As you can see, the Big Five dimensions are openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and Neuroticism-if you put the initials together, you get the acronym OCEAN. Everyone has some degree of each of these traits; it is the unique configuration of how high a person rates on some traits and how low on others that produces the individual quality we call personality. Openness is the degree to which a person is curious, original, intellectual, creative, and open to new ideas. People high in openness seem to thrive in situations that require flexibility and learning new things. They are highly motivated to learn new skills, and they do well in training settings. Barrick, M. R., & Mount, M. K. (1991). The big five personality dimensions and job performance: A meta-analysis. Personnel Psychology, 44, 1-26; Lievens, F., Harris, M. M., Van Keer, E., & Bisqueret, C. (2003). Predicting cross-cultural training performance: The validity of personality, cognitive ability, and dimensions measured by an assessment center and a behavior description interview. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 476-489. They also have an advantage when they enter into a new organization. Their open-mindedness leads 2. The degree to which a person is them to seek a lot of information and feedback about how they are doing and to curious, original, intellectual, creative, and open to new build relationships, which leads to quicker adjustment to the new job. Wanberg, C. ideas. R., & Kammeyer-Mueller, J. D. (2000). Predictors and outcomes of proactivity in the 2.2 Personality and Values 73