HRM 360 Ch 10: Ability

Ability

Relatively stable capabilities people have to perform a particular range of different but related activities

Cognitive Ability

Capabilities related to the use of knowledge to make decisions and solve problems

Verbal Ability

Capabilities associated with understanding and expressing oral and written communication

Quantitative Ability

Capabilities associated with doing basic math operations and selecting and applying formulas to solve math problems

Reasoning Ability

A diverse set of abilities associated with sensing and solving problems using insight, rules, and logic

Spatial Ability

Capabilities associated with visual and mental representation and manipulation of objects in space

Perceptual Ability

The capacity to perceive, understand, and recall patterns of information

General cognitive ability

Capabilities related to the use of knowledge to make decisions and solve problems.

Emotional Intelligence

A set of abilities related to the understanding and use of emotions that affect social functioning

Self-awareness

The ability of an individual to understand the types of emotions one is experiencing, willingness to acknowledge them, and express them naturally

Other awareness

A person’s ability to recognize and understand the emotions that other people are feeling

Emotion regulation

being able to recover quickly from emotional experiences

Use of emotions

The degree to which people can harness emotions and employ them to improve their chances of being successful in whatever they are seeking to do

Strength

the degree to which the body is capable of exerting force

Stamina

The ability of a person’s lungs and circulatory system to work efficiently while they are engaging in prolonged physical activity

Flexibility

ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach

Coordination

The quality of physical movement in terms of synchronization of movements and balance.

Psychomotor Abilities

Capabilities associated with manipulating and controlling objects

Sensory Ablities

Capabilities associated with vision and hearing

Wonderlic cognitive ability test

A 12-minute test of general cognitive ability used to hire job applicants