2. Define personality.
Explain how to measure personality
Cite factors determining individual’s personality.
Explain the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
Identify the key traits in the big five personality model.
Demonstrate how the big five traits can predict behaviors.
Identify other personality traits.
Define values.
Explain the importance of values.
Understand classifications of values.
Differentiate between generational values.
Workplace implications.
Global implications.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES First 3 hours
3. There are no two human alike all over the world, we share humanity,
we all have bodies, minds, feelings but everyone is unique in his way
of life.
Personality can be defined as consistency in a person’s way of being
— that is, long-term consistency in their particular ways of
1. Perceiving , thinking, acting.
2. Reacting as a person.
3. Organized patterns of thought and feeling and behavior.
WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
4. 1. Better hiring decisions.
2. Better understanding and managing of employees.
PERSONLAITY MEASUREMENT
Why should we measure personalities as human resources professionals?
How to measure personality?
Observer rating survey
Better predictor of success Unique answers
Self-report survey
Impression management Accuracy
7. What is the Myer-Briggs Type indicator (MBTI)?
Personality assessment instrument.
The most widely used in the world.
Consists of 100 question about how people feel or act in different situations.
The answers classifies people in 4 categories
THE MYER-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
E OR I
Extraverted
Introverted
S OR N
Sensing
Intuitive
T OR F
Thinking
Feeling
J OR P
Judging
Perceiving
10. THE BIG FIVE PERSONALIY MODEL
Extraversion
Agreeableness
ConscientiousnessEmotional stability
Openness to
experience
11. THE BIG FIVE PERSONALIY MODEL
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Emotional stability
Openness to
experience
Personality dimensions that captures our
comfort level with relationships.
Personality dimensions that captures our
propensity to defer to others.
Personality dimensions that describes
our reliability, responsibility and
persistence.
Personality dimensions describes our
ability to withstand stress.
Personality dimensions that describes
our imagination and sensitivity abilities.
12. MORE PERSONALITY TRAITS
Other personality
traits related to
predicting
employees’ behavior
at work.
Core Self-Evaluation
Machiavellianism
Narcissism
Self-mentoring
Risk Taking
Type A
Proactive Personality
13. CORE SELF-EVALUATION
I like myself
I believe in my
capabilities.
I dislike myself
I don’t believe in
my capabilities.
I am controlling
my life
My life is
controlling me.
High core self-evaluation Low core self-evaluation
14. MACHIAVELLIANISM
Machiavellianism is named after Nicollo
machiavelli, who wrote about how to gain and use
power in the 16th century.
Mach believes that ends can justify means.
High Mach people would do anything to achieve
their goals.
High Mach employees are good in bargaining skills
and motivated by rewarding jobs ( commissioned
salesman).
I will do
anything to get
money!!!
15. NARCISSISM
Narcissism people characteristics
They think they are better leaders.
They want to be center of attention.
They want to gain admiration.
Selfish
They think others exist for their
benefits.
16. TYPE A & B PERSONALITY
A B
Move, Walk, Eat
Tasks
Measurement of
success
Leisure time
Patient
Rapidly Slowly
More than one Only one task
Quantity Quality
Not enjoyable Enjoyable
Impatient Patient
17. OTHER TRAITS
Self-Monitoring
The individual’s ability to adjust his behavior to external, situational
factors.
Risk Taking
The individual’s willingness to take risks.
Managers in large organizations are more risk averse than
entrepreneurs.
High risk takers can work as a stock trader but not an accountant.
Proactive
People who identify opportunities, show initiatives, take action, and
persevere until meaningful change occurs.
Editor's Notes
The two twins study
(E OR I) THEY ARE OUTGOING, SOCIABLE, AND ASSERTIVE / QUIET AND SHY
(S OR N) TYPICAL, PRACTICAL, PREFER ROUTINE / DETAILED, LOOK AT BIG PICTURE
(TOR F) REASONABLE, LOGIC IN PROBLEMS/ PERSONAL VALUES AND EMOTIONS.
(J/P) WANT CONTROL, ORDERED AND STRUCTURES WORLD/ FLEXIBLE.
INJTS ARE VISIIONARIES , ORIGINAL MIND, GREAT DRIVE FOR THEIR OWN IDES, DETERMINED, INDEPENDET
ESTJ ARE ORGANIZERS REALISTIC, LOGIC, ANALYTICAL, NATURAL HEAD FOR BUSINESS.
ENTP CINEPETUALIZER, ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS, SOURCEFUL IN SOLVING PROBLEMS
NTS INTUITIVE THINKERS.
NTS ARE 5% OF THE POPULATION.
MBTI CAN BE VALUABLE TOOL FOR INCREASING SELF-AWAERNESS, AND PROVING CAREER GUIDENCE.
BUT SHOULDN’T BE USED AS A SELECTION TOOL
Extroverts are more absent and engaged in risk behaviors.
Extroverts lie more in job interviews.
High conscientiousness people
have few goals, organized, systematic, careful and responsible.
They live longer than low conscientiousness.
Focus on performance rather than learning.
Low conscientiousness people
Have many goals, disorganized, easily distracted and unreliable.
They are more creative than high conscientiousness people.
The big five model can’t describe a wide range of personality traits that might affect employees’ behaviors at work, so we will study some other personality traits related to organizational behavior.
Core self-evaluation is the degree to which likes or dislikes himself/herself, whether the person see himself as capable and effective, whether the person feels in control of his or her environment or powerless over the environment.
People with high core-self evaluation are more satisfied with their jobs, perform better as they set more ambitious goals, more committed to their goals, and persist longer in achieving their goals.
But if they are too positive about themselves and incompetent they are making bad decisions as they are overconfident.
Machiavellianism is the degree to which an individual is pragmatic, maintains emotions distance and believes that ends can justify means.
High Machiavellianism manipulates more, win more, persuades more, less persuaded, and show more deviant work behaviors.
Narcissism is the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-important, require expressive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
Type A personality is an aggressive involvement in a chronic, incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time and if necessary, against the opposing efforts of other things or other people.
Type A do better than type B in interviews by showing desired traits such as high drive, competence and success motivation.