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A 6 page paper that discusses Friedman's descriptions of Type A and Type B personalities. Characteristics and behaviors of each are outlined. The writer then discusses behaviors theories and social learning theories in relation to these two kinds of supervisors/managers and the effect on employees. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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TYPE A AND B PERSONALITIES AS SUPERVISORS , October, 2001 properly! Friedman and Ulmer
were the theorists who initiated descriptions of Type A and Type B personalities. The characteristics and behaviors of each type are: Type A behaviors: * Hyper-aggressiveness leading to competitiveness
* Insecurity leading to achievement striving * Time urgency * The incessant struggle against time * Hostility leading to impatience with others (Friedman and Ulmer). * Often
obsessed with their work * tend to become aggressive, impatient, and irritable are anyone or anything that interferes with their work (Psychology, 2001). * Want to get things done and
they will do almost anything to accomplish their goals Type A personalities tend to have very little patience and they demonstrate excessive amounts of stress. Type B behaviors: *
People who do not do more than one thing at a time * Make up only about 10 percent of the population * Do things more patiently and
in keeping with their own natural rhythms * Does not feel challenged or threatened to the same extent as Type-A people * Does not experience the Type-As typical
insecurity and hostility (Friedman and Ulmer). Type B personalities tend to be far easier-going than Type A. Far more attention has been given to Type A personalities because they have
such inherent risk of coronary disease, having heart attacks and other health problems. Sharma noted there are two over-riding characteristics or features that identify the Type A personality: time
urgency or time-impatience and free-floating (all pervasive and ever-present) hostility. In other words, the individual is excessively concerned about time, everything must be done by a specific time, time is
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