what is personality? types? and how it can be understood to get hold of organizational behavior

1. PERSONALITY
Prepared by:
Deepshree Sharma
Nishant Dahiya
Satish Singh

2. What Is Personality?
Personality refers to individual differences in
characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and
behaving.
Focuses On Two Broad Areas:
• Understanding individual differences in particular
personality characteristics, such as sociability or
irritability.
• Understanding how the various parts of a person come
together as a whole.

3. Determinants
of
Personality
Heredity
Cultural and
Religious
Situation
Inherited from
parents
The environment
you live in.
Different situations
call for different
reactions.

4. Organizations too have Personalities
People think of organizations, much like people, as having certain
traits—unique, stable characteristics that set them apart from other
organizations— that is, distinct personalities.

5. • WALT DISNEY WORLD- friendly, attentive to people, family oriented
• BIG BAZAAR- popular, user friendly, family oriented
• NIKE- innovative, unique, popular
• REEBOK- modern, contemporary, stylish
• MICROSOFT- successful, popular, innovative
• MC DONALD’S- family oriented, popular, friendly

6. How Personality influence Organizational Behavior?
1. LOCUS OF CONTROL
• A person’s perception of the source of his/her fate is termed
locus of control.
• refers to an individual belief that events are either within one’s
control or beyond the limit of one’s control.
Internals: People who believe that they are masters of their own
fate.
Externals: People who believe they are pawns of fate.

7. 2. SELF ESTEEM
• It refers to the feeling of likes and dislikes of
oneself.
• Self esteem is directly related to expectations
for success.
• Individuals with high self-esteem will take
more risks in job selection and are more
likely to choose unconventional jobs than
people with low self-esteem.

8. 3. SELF MONITORING
• It refers to an individual’s ability to adjust his or her behavior to
external, situational factors.
• Individuals high in self-monitoring show considerable
adaptability.

9. 4. RISK TAKING
• It refers to the degree to which a person assumes risk. People
differ in their willingness to take chances.
• High risk taking managers may make more rapid decisions
and uses less information in making their choices whereas low
risk taking managers take time in taking decision and uses huge
information for it.
For example
For low risk taking – an accountant
For high risk taking – a share broker