Analyze the case on Steve Job’s Personality & Attitudes in management and leadership

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Assignment-3

• Please read the case “Steve Jobs’s Personality & Attitudes Drove his Success.” in Chapter 11 “Managing Individual Differences & Behavior” available in your textbook – Management: A Practical Approach 7th edition by Kinicki, A., & Williams, B., and answer the following questions:

Questions:(1.25 x 4 = 5 marks)

Q1. How would you evaluate Steve Jobs’s in terms of the Big Five personality dimensions?

Q2. How would you evaluate Steve Jobs’s in terms of the five traits important to organizational behavior? Explain.

Q3. What were Jobs’s attitudes about effective leadership? Use the three components of attitudes to explain.

Q4. Do you believe that Jobs’s personality and attitudes affected the workplace attitudes and behaviors of Apple employees? Explain.

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