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I need help in describing major factors to individual difference that affect job performance. Include factors of mutiple intelligence, mental ability, skills, personality traits, and cultural behavior. Please utilize at lesst one outside source in this discussion.

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Skills: Individual differences on job performance are partly determined by declarative knowledge: knowledge about facts, principles, objects etc. This represents knowledge of a task's requirements. It is also determined by procedural knowledge: the knowledge and skill needed to know how to perform tasks. It includes cognitive skill. If a person knows what to do and how to do a job related task that would likely help a person's job performance.
Multiple intelligences: A theory proposed by Howard Gardner stating that those who are good at one task are not necessarily smarter than someone who is not good at that same ...

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