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Personality Characteristics: The "Big Five" (plus one)

15 January, 2016 - 09:10
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So much of success in practical and professional ethics lies in anticipating and defusing potential ethical challenges. Called "Preventive Ethics," this approach encourages you to develop the skill of uncovering latent or hidden ethical problems that could erupt into full-blown ethical dilemmas. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This module is designed to help you reflect on your personality, different organizational environments or ecologies, and how your personality fits into these moral ecologies. Your success depends on developing plans for successful moral careers that respond to your personality traits and resist ethical challenges presented by organizational environments.

Personality Characteristics: Find your place on the continuum

  1. Extraversion..........................Introversion
  2. Neuroticism Stability.............Emotional
  3. Conscientiousness.................Carelessness
  4. Agreeableness.......................Disagreeableness
  5. Openness (to experience).......Closed (to experience)
  6. Honesty/Humility.................Dishonesty/Arrogance
 

This account of personality modifies that presented by Huff et al in "Good computing: a pedagogically focused model of virtue in the practice of computing, parts 1 and 2."