3. Roles Of Personality in
Organizational Behavior
Personality plays a key role in organizational
behavior. Peoples personalities influence their
behavior in groups, their attitudes, and the way
they make decisions. In the workplace, personality
affects such things as motivation, leadership,
performance, and conflict.
The more that management understands how
personality in organizational behavior works, the
better equipped they are to be effective and
accomplish their goals.
4. Big Five Personality Traits
Extraversion Gregarious, assertive,
sociable
Agreeableness Cooperative, warm,
agreeable
Conscientiousness Hardworking, organized,
dependable
Emotional stability Calm, self-confidant, cool
Openness to
experience
Creative, curious,
cultured
Sources: P. T. Costa and R. R. McCrae, The NEO-PI Personality Inventory (Odessa, Fla.: Psychological Assessment Resources, 1992); J. F. Salgado, “The
Five Factor Model of Personality and Job Performance in the European Community,” Journal of Applied Psychology 82 (1997): 30-43.
6. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Self-Efficacy - beliefs and expectations about one’s ability to
accomplish a specific task effectively
Sources of self-efficacy
Prior experiences and prior success
Behavior models (observing success)
Persuasion
Assessment of current physical & emotional
capabilities
8. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Self-Monitoring
Behavior based on cues from people & situations
High self-monitors
flexible: adjust behavior
according to the
situation and the
behavior of others
can appear
unpredictable &
inconsistent
Low self-monitors
act from internal states
rather than from
situational cues
show consistency
less likely to respond to
work group norms or
supervisory feedback
9. Who Is Most Likely to . . .
Low-self
monitors
High-self
monitors
Get promoted
Change employers
Make a job-related
geographic move
Accomplish tasks, meet other’s
expectations, seek out central positions
in social networks
Self-promote
Demonstrate higher levels of managerial
self-awareness; base behavior on other’s
cues and the situation
10. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Positive Affect - an individual’s tendency to
accentuate the positive aspects of oneself, other
people, and the world in general
Negative Affect - an individual’s tendency to
accentuate the negative aspects of oneself, other
people, and the world in general
13. Factors of
Personality
Environmental Factors
Physical Factors
Situational Factors
Hereditary
Family and Social Factors
Identification Process
Cultural Factors
Intelligence
Sex Differences
Psychological Factors
In the field of organizational behavior, personality
is the aggregate of a person’s feelings, thinking,
behaviors and responses to different
situations and people.