This document discusses personality and behavior. It defines personality as the consistent ways people behave and differ from one another, including traits like introversion and friendliness. Personality development is important for careers and includes physical aspects like communication skills. There are several models that categorize personality types and traits, including the Big Five personality dimensions of extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. Behavior in the workplace is influenced by motivation, ability, role perceptions, and situational factors. Values and ethics also impact behavior. The document outlines several approaches to supporting ethical behavior in organizations.
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We use the term personality frequently
but what does it actually mean?
“She has a wonderful personality.”
“He has no personality.”
“He has personality plus.”
“We seem to have a personality conflict.”
“It’s just her personality.”
“She has her mother’s personality.”
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Physical Aspects
• That form the basis of a person’s behavior. Personality
includes all traits .The word “Trait” refers to a consistent
way of behaving in which people differ from one another .
Introversion, Intelligence, anxiety,
• Aggressiveness, Prejudice, musical aptitude, Honesty,
sensitivity, Seriousness, and friendliness are all examples
for traits.
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TRAITS
• The traits that people possess and the degree to which
they possess them are part of their psychological feature .
• Traits or characteristic is stable and enduring attribute of
person that is revealed consistently in a variety of
situations .
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Directness:
• They act proactively
• Naturally self confident, High ego people
• Hard-driving and decisive. Authoritative
• Are candid(frank, open, outspoken, honest, Straight)
• Interested in results than people
• Attack things aggressively
• Often do not realize how strongly they communicate to
others
• Good Trouble shooters
• Thrive on solving problems
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Extroversion
• Are enthusiastic and pleasant
• Are versatile
• Like to build organization
• Get things accomplished through people
• Like team work , will involve people
• Like group discussions and encourage participation in
decision-making
• persuasive
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Pace (speed)
• Persistent and Co-operative
• Love peace and harmony
• Dependable and reliable
• Do-not like to be rushed at the last minute
• Good Planners
• Interested in making every move count
• Have good memory
• Good listeners
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Structure
• Hate to make mistakes
• Well organized
• Will double check themselves and others
• Are very loyal in their circle
• Have eye for details
• Good at developing systems
• Meticulous,(careful)can be fussy(picky , selective)
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Employee Behaviour Defined
• The employee’s emotional and cognitive (rational)
motivation
• Ability to perform the job,
• Clear understanding of the organization’s vision
• His/her specific role in that vision,
• A belief that he/she has the resources to get the job
done
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Employee Ability
• Natural aptitudes and learned capabilities required
to successfully complete a task
– competencies personal characteristics that lead to
superior performance
– person job matching
• select qualified people
• develop employee
abilities through training
• redesign job to fit
person's existing abilities
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Employee Role Perceptions
• Beliefs about what behaviour is required to achieve the
desired results
– understanding what tasks to perform
– understanding relative importance of tasks
– understanding preferred
behaviours to accomplish tasks
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Maintaining Work
Attendance
• Performance beyond the
required job duties
Joining/staying with
the Organization
• Goal-directed behaviours under
person’s control
Types of Behaviour in Organizations
Counterproductiv
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Behaviours
• Voluntary behaviour that
potentially harms the
organization
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Values in the Workplace
• Stable, evaluative beliefs that guide our
preferences
• Define right or wrong, good or bad
• Value system -- hierarchy of values
• Espoused vs. enacted values:
– Espoused -- the values we say we use and often think
we use
– Enacted -- values we actually rely on to guide our
decisions and actions
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Influences on Ethical Conduct
• Moral intensity
– degree that issue demands ethical principles
• Ethical sensitivity
– ability to recognize the presence and determine the relative
importance of an ethical issue
• Situational influences
– competitive pressures and other conditions affect ethical behaviour
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Supporting Ethical Behaviour
• Ethical code of conduct
– Establishes standards of behaviour
– Problem: Limited effect alone on ethical behaviour
• Ethics training
– Awareness and clarification of ethics code
– Practice resolving ethical dilemmas
• Ethics officers
– Educate and counsel; hear about wrongdoing
• Ethical leadership
– Demonstrate integrity and role model ethical conduct
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Locus of Control and Self-Monitoring
• Locus of control
– Internals believe in their effort and ability
– Externals believe events are mainly due to external causes
• Self-monitoring personality
– Sensitivity to situational cues, and ability to adapt your behaviour
to that situation
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