One of your subordinates is very shy and does not speak up in meetings to express her ideas. Your personal belief is that personality changes and develops over time, so you begin asking for her opinion during meetings in an attempt to include her in the discussion with the goal that over time she will feel more comfortable speaking up and be less shy. Your belief and actions show that you approach personality with the ________ perspective.

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C) If you believe that personality develops over time and is influenced by one's environment, you subscribe to the environment perspective of personality. Because you believe that environmental factors can change other people's behavior, you are likely to interact with the person differently than you would if you thought personality was stable and could not be changed. In this case, you made the extra effort to provide environmental experiences for the subordinate to speak up in meetings in an attempt to shape her personality and decrease her shyness.

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