3. Content
• Meaning of Personality
• Personality Determinants
• Personality Traits
• The big five model
4. Personality
The sum total of ways in which an individual
reacts and interacts with others.
Macionis define as “It is the constant pattern of
thinking, feeling and acting.”
5. Personality Traits
Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s
behavior.
1. Reserved vs. Outgoing.
2. Less intelligent vs. More intelligent.
3. Affected by feelings vs. emotionally stable.
4. Submissive vs. Dominant.
5. Serious vs. happy go lucky.
6. Trusting vs. suspicious.
7. Practical vs. imagination.
8. Tough minded vs. sensitive.
9. Conservative vs. experimenting.
10. Group-dependent vs. self-sufficient.
11. Relaxed vs. tense.
12. Uncontrolled vs. controlled.
9. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
A personality test that taps four characteristics and
classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types.
Personality Types
•Extroverted vs. Introverted (E or I)
•Sensing vs. Intuitive (S or N)
•Thinking vs. Feeling (T or F)
•Judging vs. Perceiving (P or J)
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13. Big Five Model of
Personality Dimensions
Extroversion
Sociable, gregarious, and assertive
Agreeableness
Good-natured, cooperative, and trusting.
Conscientiousness
Responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.
Emotional Stability
Calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus nervous,
depressed, and insecure (negative).
Openness to Experience
Imaginativeness, artistic, sensitivity, and
intellectualism.
15. Locus of Control
The degree to which people believe they are
masters of their own fate.
Internals
Individuals who believe
that they control what
happens to them.
Externals
Individuals who
believe that what
happens to them is
controlled by outside
forces such as luck or
chance.
Machiavellianism
Degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes
that ends can justify means.
16. Risk-Taking
• High Risk-taking Managers
– Make quicker decisions
– Use less information to make decisions
– Operate in smaller and more entrepreneurial
organizations
• Low Risk-taking Managers
– Are slower to make decisions
– Require more information before making decisions
– Exist in larger organizations with stable
environments
• Risk Propensity
– Aligning managers’ risk-taking propensity to job
requirements should be beneficial to organizations.
17. Self-Esteem (SE)
Individuals’ degree of liking or disliking
themselves.
Self-Monitoring
A personality trait that measures an
individuals ability to adjust his or her
behavior to external, situational factors.
18. Personality Types
Type A’s
1. are always moving, walking, and eating rapidly;
2. feel impatient with the rate at which most events take
place;
3. strive to think or do two or more things at once;
4. cannot cope with leisure time;
5. are obsessed with numbers, measuring their success in
terms of how many or how much of everything they
acquire.
Type B’s
1. never suffer from a sense of time urgency with its
accompanying impatience;
2. feel no need to display or discuss either their
achievements or accomplishments;
3. play for fun and relaxation, rather than to exhibit their
superiority at any cost;
4. can relax without guilt.
