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1. Describe the various personality traits that affect how managers think, feel and behave.
Cabatingan, Ivana B. II-B
University of Southeastern Philippines
College of development Management
An individual’s behaviour towards others, attitude, characteristics, mindset make his
personality thus, personality development is defined as a process of enhancing one’s
personality. However, personality development sessions guide an individual as to how he/she
can develop his/her personality
PERSONALITY TRAITS DEFINED:
According to Larsen R. and Buss D. (2016) personality traits is a stable, organized
collection of psychological traits and mechanisms in the human being that influences his or her
interactions with and modifications to the psychological, social and physical environment
surrounding them. Moreover, personality does not change just from one day to another and
actually it changes hardly at all. If, there are many changes these are very limited and slow. If,
they occur they may be caused by trauma or life changing experience. According to Diener E.
and Lucas R. (2016) supported that personality traits reflect people’s characteristics patterns of
thought, feelings, and behaviour. And also, personality traits imply consistency and stability
someone who scores high on a specific trait like extraversion is expected to be sociable in
different situations and over time. Thus, trait psychology rests on the idea that people differ
from one another in terms of where they stand on a set of basic trait dimension that persists
over time and across situations this system includes five broad traits is called the five factor
model and can be remember with the acronym OCEAN: openness, conscientiousness,
extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
Personality traits, is a stable organized collection of psychological traits and mechanisms
in the human being that influences his or her interactions. In addition, reflect people’s
characteristics patterns of thought, feelings, and behaviour. Thus, imply consistency and
stability someone who scores high on a specific trait like extraversion is expected to be sociable
in different situations over time. Hence, it does not change just from one day to another,
actually it changes hardly at all.
DIFFERENT PERSONALITY TRAITS:
According to Pappas S. (2013) there are big five of personality traits openness,
conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness is shorthand for
“openness to experience” people who are high in openness enjoy adventure they’re curious
and appreciate art and new things. People who are conscientious are organized and have a
strong sense of duty they are dependable, disciplined and achievement in addition,
extraversion is possibly the most recognized personality trait of the big five more of an

2. extravert someone is the more of a social butterfly they are extraverts are chatty, sociable and
draw energy from crowds. Next is, agreeableness measures the extent of a person’s warmth
and kindness agreeable someone is the more likely they are to be trusting helpful and
compassionate plus, neuroticism, look no further than George con stanza of the long winning
sitcom “Seinfeld” George may be high on the neuroticism worry frequently trait is real people
high in neuroticism worry frequently and easily slip into anxiety and depressions. According to
Denham T. (2010) argued that they are 10 personality traits that are characteristics of
successful people. Attitude, the capacity to stay optimistic and positive, enthusiastic the
possession of intense and eager interests in a subject or cause, ethical the quality of having and
living by a code of sound moral principles, goal focused the ability to have clarity on the
objectives that you strive for in your personal and professional life. In addition, listen the
capacity to suspend your own agenda and deliberately and emphatical allows other to be hard,
networked a well developed circle of influence of interconnected positive relationship,
persistent the ability to endure in the face of adversity. Most of all, self aware the
understanding and knowledge of who you are including your skills, values, interests, behaviours
and character, self confident the firm belief in your abilities seek professional help if this is an
area of weakness, self discipline the ability to control and restrain impulse energy they can be
focused and channelled toward your ambitions.
There are five personality traits openness, conscientiousness, extraversion,
agreeableness, and neuroticism. Openness people who are enjoy in adventure.
Conscientiousness, people who are strong sense of duty they are dependable thus, extraversion
someone is sociable and draw energy from crowds. And, agreeableness someone is the more
likely to be trusting helpful and compassionate.
PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT AFFECT MANAGERS
According to Hill T. (2016) other personality traits that affect a manager’s behaviour are
locus of control, self-esteem, and need for achievement. Locus control refers to a manager’s
perception of how much control he has over what happens to himself and his circumstance.
Next is, self-esteemis the degree to which people feel good about themselves and her abilities.
Lastly, need for achievement refers to a strong desire to perform challenging tasks well and to
set personal standards of excellence. According to Jones G. (2008) stated that there are other
personality traits which are the values, attitudes, and moods and emotions that affect
managers personality traits. Values, describe that managers try to achieve through work and
how they think should behave. Another is, attitude capture managers thought and feelings
about their specific job and organizations. Moreover, moods and emotions encompass how
managers actually feel when they are managing.
Personality traits that affect a manager’s behaviour are locus of control, self-esteem,
and need for achievement. A manager’s perception is the degree to which people feel good
about her abilities, a strong desire to perform challenging tasks. In addition, other personality
traits are values, attitudes, and moods & emotions. Managers try to achieve work and should

3. behave, capture managers thought and feelings about their specific job, managers actually feel
when they are managing.
To sum it up, personality traits reflect people’s characteristics patterns of thought,
feelings, and behaviour. And, it does not change just from one day to another and actually it
changes hardly at all. In addition, there are five personality traits openness, conscientiousness,
extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Thus, personality traits that affect a manager’s
behaviour are locus of control, self esteem, and need for achievement hence, other personality
traits are values, attitudes and moods of emotions.
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