So I started my world and did all the standard things I do when I first start a world. I gathered a lot of logs and eight blocks of cobblestone. I turned the logs into a VERY tiny house and the cobblestone into a furnace.

This is what my world looks like now. That tiny brown speck on that incredibly small island is my 3×3 house.

Alright, and here are some close ups of my little shack.

Next time I’ll do some mining and start expanding my house a bit.

Things I have to do.

1. Study for my various classes.

Things that are Productive.

1. Studying for my classes.
2. Play Piano
3. Trade the Forex
4. Study Japanese

What I actually end up doing…

1. League of Legends
2. League of Legends
3. League of Legends
4. League of Legends

So yeah… I have a problem… I’m spending all of my time playing League of Legends instead of doing work for my classes. Oh no!

The definition of personality used in the book is the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others. Personality is most often described in terms of the measurable traits a person exhibits.

Two things that can determine personality are heredity and environment.

Heredity refers to factors determined at conception. Things like physical stature, facial attractiveness, gender, temperament, muscle composition and reflexes, energy level, and biological rhythms. The heredity approach argues that the ultimate explanation of an individual’s personality is the molecular structures of the genes, located in the chromosomes.

A personality trait is a behavior which is exhibited in a large number of situations. the more frequently a trait occurs in divers situations, the more important that trait is in describing the individual.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

The most widely used personality assessment test in the world. 100 question test that asks people how they usually feel or act in particular situations.

On the basis of the answers, individuals are classified as Extraverted or Introverted, Sensing or Intuitive, Thinking or Feeling, and Judging or Perceptive.

Despite its popularity most of the evidence suggests that it is isn’t valid.

The Big Five Personality Model

Has stronger evidence than the MBTI. The five factor model is called the big five for short.

The Big Five Factors are:

Extraversion: Captures one’s comfort level with relationships.

Agreeableness: Refers to an individual’s propensity to defer others.

Conscientiousness: Measure of the reliability of a person.

Emotional Stabability: Measures a persons ability to withstand stress.

Openness to Experience: Addresses ones range of interests and fascination with novelty.

Other Personality Traits Relevant to OB

Core Self-Evaluation: The way in which people tend to view themselves and whether they see themselves as capable and effective.

Self-Monitoring: An individuals ability to adjust their behavior to external situational factors.

Type A Personality: People with type A personalities are very competitive and suffer from a sense of time urgency.

Type B Personality: People with Type B personalities are very laid back and rarely worry about time.

Proactive Personality: People who take active measures to improve their current state or create a new state while others passively react.

Values

Values represent basic basic convictions that “a specific mode of conduct or end state of existence is personally or socially preferable to an opposite or converse mode of conduct or end state of existence.”

When we rank a persons values in terms of their intensity, we obtain that person’s value system.

Values are important to the study of orgazational behavior because they lay the foundation for our understanding of people’s attitudes and motivation and because they influence our perceptions.

Terminal Values refer to desirable end-states.

Instrumental Values refers to  preferable modes of behavior, or means of achieving the terminal values.

Generational Values:

Veterans grew up during World War II and believe in hard work, the status quo, and authority figures.

Boomers are born after World War II they are pragmatic, hard working, require a sense of accomplishment, and social recognition.

The Xers value flexibility, life options, and the achievement of job satisfaction. In contrast to the Veterans they are quite skeptical, especially of authority.

The most recent workforce generation are the Nexters. They have high expectations and  and seek meaning in their work. Nexters are at eas with diversity and are the first generation to take technology for granted.

Linking Personality and Values to the Workplace

John Holland’s personality-job theory presents six personality types and proposes that job satisfaction and the propensity to leave a position depend on the degree to which individuals successfully match their personality to each job. Holland developed the Vocational Preference Inventory questionnaire, which contains 160 occupational titles.  Responders indicate which of these occupations they like or dislike and their answers form a hexagonal diagram. Research strongly supports this diagram and test. The key to this theory is that there are different types of jobs, people personalities have intrinsic differences, and that people in jobs which match their personality should be more satisfied and less likely to resign.

Person-Organization Fit

The person-organization fit argues that people are attracted to and selected by organizations that match their personalities, and leave organizations that are no compatible with their personalities. The fit of a persons values with the culture of the organization  predicts job satisfaction, commitment to the organization, and turnover.

Geert Hofstede’s Framework for Assesssing Cultures

Is one of the most widely referenced approaches for analyzing variations among cultures and was done in the late 1970s.

Power Distance describes the degree to which people in a country accept that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.

Individualism is the degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than as members of a group.

Collectivism emphasizes a tight social framework in which people expect others in groups of which they are a part of to look after them and protect them.

Masculinity is the degree to which the culture favors traditional masculine roles as opposed to viewing men and women as equals.

Femininity means that the culture sees men and women as equals with little difference between them.

Uncertainty Avoidance is the degree to which people in a country prefer structured over unstructured situations.

-masen negative verb ending

Asa nani wo nomimasu ka.                    What do you drink in the morning?

Asa nani wo tabemasu ka.                      What do you eat in the morning?

(Food) wo tabemasu.            I/he/she/we eat food.

Subject does not conjugate with verb. No differentiation between present and future tenses.

Taberu is the dictionary form of tabemasu. Dictionary form is sometimes called short form.

Only two irregular verbs. Suru and Kuru.

Ru-Verbs have the ending “ru”. The letter right before the “ru” does not have vowels (a,o,u).

Conjugation is getting rid of “ru” and adding “masu” or “masen”

eg: taberu -> tabemasu

U-Verbs -> change the last letter’s vowels u to I and add masu or masen.

eg: nomu-> nomimasu                   kiku->kikimasu

Evidence Based Management (EBM) involves basing managerial decisions on the best available scientific evidence.

Contributing Disciples to the OB Field

Psychology is the science that seeks to measure, explain, and sometimes change the behavior of humans and other animals.

Social Psychology blends concepts from both psychology and sociology, through it is generally considered a branch of psychology.

Sociology is the study of people in relation to their social environment or culture.

Anthropology is the study of societies for the purpose of learning about human beings and their activities.

Few Absolutes in OB

Few, if any, simple and universal principles explain OB. Humans beings are complex and and diverse, limiting our ability to make simple, accurate, and sweeping generalizations.

Because of this, OB concepts must reflect situational, or contingency situations. We can say that x leads to y, but only under specified condition z — the contingency variable.

Challenges and Opportunities for OB

1. Responding to Globalization – As the world becomes a global village, the manager’s job is challenging.
2. Increasing Foreign Assignments – If you are a manager you may likely find yourself transferred to another country.
3. Working with People from Different Cultures – You have to learn how to adapt your management style to your workers.
4. Overseeing Movement of Jobs to Countries with Low-Cost Labor -  It is increasingly difficult to compete with firms operating in countries with low-cost labor.

Workforce Diversity means that organizations are becoming a more heterogeneous mix of people in terms of  gender, age, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

Major Workforce Diversity Categories

1. Gender
2. Race
3. National Origin
4. Age
5. Disability
6. Sexual Orientation
7. Religion

A real growth area in OB research has been positive organizational scholarship, which concerns how organizations develop human strengths, foster vitality and resilience, and unlock potential.

So, lets begin learning Japanese. Your first task will be to learn the system of writing which is first taught to children in Japan, hiragana. Hiragana consists of 46 symbols and are very round and swishy.Hiragana are used when spelling word of Japanese origin such as “wakarimasen” and “nomimasu”.

Day 1

Today you will want to start learning the vowels and the K’s.

This Site is great for learning all of your kana.

I would suggest you adjust the hiragana section to only show the vowels and the K’s for now.

Also go to the katakana section and make sure all of the are unchecked.

Finally, under the options tab you can adjust the fonts used to display the kana.

Flash card the vowels and K’s in half and hour session until you learn them. Be sure to take breaks.

As extra enrichment, you can also write the kana as you see them, make sure to say the name of the kana as you write it.

Finally, write these words five times each using the kana that you learned.

あかい – Red

あおい – Blue

いけ – Pond

おか -Hill

こうこう – High School

Day 2

By now you should be somewhat familiar with the vowels and K’s. So lets start learning the next two rows. Using the same site as yesterday.

First make sure that all of the katakana are unchecked.

Then go to the Hiragana section and uncheck the vowels and the K’s and check the S’s and the T’s.

Follow the same instructions as yesterday and flash card these kana while writing them.

Then change the hiragana options to include all of yesterdays hiragana. So you should have vowels, K’s, S’s, and T’s all checked.

Some time later, make sure to write these japanese words five times each.

さけ – Alcohol

おとうと – Younger Brother

おとうさん – Father

とけい – Watch(the one that goes on your wrist)

かさ – Umbrella

そうき – Remembering

I’ve also decided to start posting TLDR(Too Long Didn’t Read) versions of my articles. For those people who don’t like to read all that much.

TLDR Version: I’m going to document everything I learn in my blog from now on.

Reasons why they suck:

1. The chances of you winning anything are slim.
2. You get crap tons of junk mail afterward because you gave them your address.

So basically, do them if you like junk mail. I mean REALLY like junk mail.