The document discusses personality and the factors that influence it. It describes personality as being made up of both hereditary and environmental factors that are moderated by situational conditions. Some key points:
- Personality is influenced by heredity (genes), environment, and situations. Heredity sets parameters but the environment determines one's full potential.
- There are several theories of personality including traits theory, psychodynamic theory, humanistic theory, and the integrative approach.
- Popular models for describing personality include the Big Five model (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness) and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (16 personality types).
Personality: Meaning and Determinants of Personality, Process of Personality Formation, Personality Types, Assesment of Personality Traits for Increasing Self Awareness
Personality: Meaning and Determinants of Personality, Process of Personality Formation, Personality Types, Assesment of Personality Traits for Increasing Self Awareness
Notes on personality in organisation behavior (For BBA/B.com Students)Yamini Kahaliya
This document is on notes on personality in Organisation Behavior and it covers detail about following points :-
1. Meaning
2. Characteristics
3. Traits of Personality
4. Major Personality Attributes
5. Theories of Personality
6. Types of personality
,
personality and values
,
what is personality?
,
personality determinants
,
personality traits
,
the myers-briggs type indicator
,
hofstede’s framework: masculinity
,
hofstede’s framework: time orientation
,
how do the big five traits predict behavior?
,
more relevant personality traits
,
linking personality and values to the workplace
,
classifying values – rokeach value survey
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People are willing to live with some discomfort but the degree to which this is true depends upon the importance of the elements, how much influences the individual has in the situation, and the rewards available.
This chapter is very essential for those who are studying OB and as well has a huge importance for everyone else. Attitude is what makes someone successful and someone else unsuccessful. attitude is defined as evaluative statements- either favorable or unfavorable- concerning people, things, objects etc.while job satisfaction is a positive feeling about one's job.
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4-1 Differentiate between emotions and moods.
4-2 Identify the sources of emotions and moods.
4-3 Show the impact emotional labor has on employees.
4-4 Describe affective events theory.
4-5 Describe emotional intelligence.
4-6 Identify strategies for emotional regulation.
4-7 Apply concepts about emotions and moods to specific OB issues.
Notes on personality in organisation behavior (For BBA/B.com Students)Yamini Kahaliya
This document is on notes on personality in Organisation Behavior and it covers detail about following points :-
1. Meaning
2. Characteristics
3. Traits of Personality
4. Major Personality Attributes
5. Theories of Personality
6. Types of personality
,
personality and values
,
what is personality?
,
personality determinants
,
personality traits
,
the myers-briggs type indicator
,
hofstede’s framework: masculinity
,
hofstede’s framework: time orientation
,
how do the big five traits predict behavior?
,
more relevant personality traits
,
linking personality and values to the workplace
,
classifying values – rokeach value survey
Attitudes and Job Satisfaction - Organizational BehaviorFaHaD .H. NooR
This is a focus on Attitudes and Job Satisfaction. Managers should be interested in their employees’ attitudes because attitudes give warnings of potential problems and influence behavior. Creating a satisfied workforce is hardly a guarantee of successful organizational performance, but evidence strongly suggests that whatever managers can do to improve employee attitudes will likely result in heightened organizational effectiveness. Attitudes are evaluative statements or judgments concerning objects, people, or events. Attitudes are made up of three components. The cognitive component is made up of the belief in the way things are. The effective component is the more critical part of the attitude as it is calls upon the emotions or feelings. The behavioral component describes the intention to behave in a certain way toward someone or something. These three components work together to aid in our understanding of the complexity of an attitude. Sometimes we observe people who will change what they say so it doesn’t contradict their behavior. When attitudes and behaviors don’t line up, individuals will experience cognitive dissonance. This incongruity is uncomfortable and individuals will seek to reduce the dissonance to find consistency.
People are willing to live with some discomfort but the degree to which this is true depends upon the importance of the elements, how much influences the individual has in the situation, and the rewards available.
This chapter is very essential for those who are studying OB and as well has a huge importance for everyone else. Attitude is what makes someone successful and someone else unsuccessful. attitude is defined as evaluative statements- either favorable or unfavorable- concerning people, things, objects etc.while job satisfaction is a positive feeling about one's job.
Organizational Behavior (Emotions and moods)Mamoona Zaeem
4-1 Differentiate between emotions and moods.
4-2 Identify the sources of emotions and moods.
4-3 Show the impact emotional labor has on employees.
4-4 Describe affective events theory.
4-5 Describe emotional intelligence.
4-6 Identify strategies for emotional regulation.
4-7 Apply concepts about emotions and moods to specific OB issues.
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ob personality
1. GSB – MBA – TM I
Organisational Behaviour
Unit II
Personality and emotions
1
2. 4–2
What is Personality?
Personality - All our behaviour is somewhat shaped by
our personalities. – a dynamic concept describing the
growth and development of a person’s whole
psychological system. It is the sum total of ways in
which an individual reacts and interacts with others.
Some aggregate whole that is greater than the sum of
its parts.
“The dynamic organisation within an individual of
those psychological systems that determine his
unique adjustments to his environment.”
Gordon Allport
3. • Personality, according to Fred Luthans,
will mean how people affect others and
how they understand and view
themselves, as well as their pattern of
inner and outer measurable traits and
the person-situation interaction.
• How people affect others depends on
external appearance (height, weight,
facial features, color, and other physical
aspects) and traits.
3
4. Personality Determinants
An adult’s personality is generally considered to be
made up of both hereditary and environmental
factors, moderated by situational conditions.
4
•Heredity
•Environment
•Situation
Personality Traits
Enduring
characteristics that
describe an
individual’s
behavior.
5. Heredity
• Factors that were deter –mined at conception -
physical stature, facial attractiveness, gender,
temperament, muscle composition and reflexes,
energy level, and biological rhythms – biological,
physiological and inherent psychological make up
of parents. – the heredity approach says that the
ultimate explanation of an individual’s personality is
the molecular structure of the genes, located in the
chromosomes.
5
6. • Research among children support the hereditary
theory – shyness, fear, and distress, height, hair
colour.
• Research among twins – separated at birth and
brought up separately – one set of twins separated
39 yrs ago and raised 45 miles apart were found to
drive the same model and color car, chain-smoked
the same brand of cigarette, owned dogs with the
same name, and regularly vacationed within 3
blocks of each other in a beach community 1500
miles away. Genetics accounts for 50% of the
personality differences and more than 30% of the
variation in occupational and leisure interests.
6
7. • A report by the American Psychological
Association concludes,
• “Studies over the past 20 yrs on twins
and adopted children have firmly
established that there is a genetic
component to just about every human
trait and behaviour, including
personality, general intelligence and
behaviour disorders.”
7
8. • The report concludes:
• “Many genes are responsible for various
aspects of people’s temperament, and
those genes appear to interact with
each other in complicated ways that
influence several traits at once- and
then likely only in very subtle ways, with
any one gene likely accounting for only 1
or 2% of the variance in trait.”
8
9. • Individual job satisfaction is found to be stable
over time, according to research –Depends on
the person and less on external
environmental factors.
• If personality were completely dictated by
birth, no experience could change it. But
personality factors are not completely
dictated by heredity.
• The debate should not be nature or nurture,
but nature and nurture that contributes to
one’s personality.
9
10. Role of the brain
The genes also affect brain functions that in turn
affect how people interact with their
environment and thus their personalities.
Some people, call the brain, “the last frontier”
because we still know very little about it, may
hold more answers for personality
10
11. Environment
• Culture in which one is raised, early conditioning,
the norms among our family, friends, social
groups, and other influences we experience.
• Both heredity and environment are important.
Heredity sets the parameters or outer limits, but
an individual’s full potential will be determined
by how well he or she adjusts tot eh demands
and requirements of the environment.
11
12. Situation
• Influences the effects of environment on
personality, which changes in different
situations. Certain situations are more
significant than others.
12
13. 4 Personality Theories
> Traits Theory
> Psychodynamic Theory
> Humanistic theory
> Integrative approach
13
14. 1. Traits Theory
Trait is an the sum of all enduring characteristics
that describe an individual’s behaviour.-observable
patterns of behaviour that last over time.
States that to understand individuals, we must break
down behaviour patterns into a series of observable
behaviour. Gordon Allport, saw traits as broad ,
general guides that lend consistency to behaviour.
Raymond Cattell identified 16 traits that formed
the basis for differences in individual behaviour. He
described traits in bipolar adjective combinations,
such as self-assured/apprehensive,
reserved/outgoing, and submissive/dominant.
14
15. Diificulty because of large number- one
study identified 17953 traits.
Impossible to predict behaviour
when such a large number is to be
taken into account.
One researcher identified 171 traits
but concluded that they were
superficial and lacked in descriptive
power.
15
16. 4–16
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment
is a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure
psychological preferences in how people perceive the
world and make decisions. A personality test that
taps four characteristics and classifies people into
1 of 16 personality types - The world’s most widely
used personality assessment, with as many as two
million assessments administered annually.
Fundamental to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is the
theory of psychological type as originally developed
by Carl Jung.
17. 17
Jung proposed the existence of two dichotomous
pairs of cognitive functions:
The "rational" (judging) functions: thinking and
feeling
The "irrational" (perceiving) functions: sensing and
intuition
Jung went on to suggest that these functions are
expressed in either an introverted or extraverted
form. From Jung's original concepts, Briggs and Myers
developed their own theory of psychological type,
18. 18
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)
Jung proposed the existence of two dichotomous pairs of
cognitive functions:
The "rational" (judging) functions: thinking and feeling
The "irrational" (perceiving) functions: sensing and intuition
Jung went on to suggest that these functions are expressed in
either an introverted or extraverted form. From Jung's original
concepts, Briggs and Myers developed their own theory of
psychological type,
19. Type
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The MBTI sorts some of these psychological
differences into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies,
with a resulting 16 possible psychological types. None
of these types are better or worse; however, Briggs
and Myers theorized that individuals naturally prefer
one overall combination of type differences. In the
same way that writing with the left hand is hard work
for a right-hander, so people tend to find using their
opposite psychological preferences more difficult,
even if they can become more proficient (and
therefore behaviorally flexible) with practice and
development..
20. 20
The 16 types are typically referred to by an
abbreviation of four letters—the initial letters of
each of their four type preferences (except in the
case of intuition, which uses the abbreviation N to
distinguish it from Introversion). For instance:
ESTJ: extraversion (E), sensing (S), thinking (T),
judgment (J)
INFP: introversion (I), intuition (N), feeling (F),
perception (P)
And so on for all 16 possible type combinations.
21. Primary traits (Robert Cattell)
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. Expedient vs Conscientious
7. Timid vs venturesome
8. Tough-minded vs sensitive
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22. 9. Trusting vs suspicious
10. Practical vs imaginative
11. Forthright vs shrewd
12. Self-assured vs apprehensive
13. Conservative vs experimenting
14. Group dependent vs self-sufficient
15. Uncontrolled vs controlled
16. Relaxed vs tense
22
23. • It is a 100 –question personality test that asks
people how they usually feel or act in particular
situations. Groups of EThe answers help to
classify them under the 4 groups, ESTJ or INFP
and further combined 16 personality types.
• e.g., INTJs are visionaries – have original minds
and great drive for their own ideas and purposes
– skeptical, critical, independent, determined,
and often stubborn.
23
24. • ESTJs are organisers – realistic, logical, analytical, and
decisive and have a natural head for business or
mechanics. They like to organise and run activities.
• ENTPs are conceptualisers – innovative, individualistic,
versatile, and attracted to entrepreneurial ideas. –
resourceful in solving challenging problems but may
neglect routine assignments.
• A recent book that profiled 13 contemporary business
people who created super successful firms including
Apple Computer, Federal Express, Honda Motors, MS,
and Sony found that all 13 are intuitive thinkers (NTs).
This result is particularly interesting because intuitive
thinkers represent only about 5% of the population.
24
25. 4–25
The Big Five Model of Personality
Dimensions
The 5 basic dimensions underlie all others and
encompass most of the significant variations in
human personality. The Big Five factors are:
Extroversion (extraversion)
Sociable, gregarious, and assertive
Agreeableness
Good-natured, cooperative, and trusting.
Conscientiousness
Responsible, dependable, persistent, and
organized.
26. 26
Openness to Experience
Imaginativeness, artistic, sensitivity,
and intellectualism, curiosity.
Emotional Stability
Calm, self-confident, secure (positive)
versus nervous, depressed, and insecure
(negative).
27. Extroversion – a personality dimension
describing someone who is sociable,
gregarious, and assertive. – one’s comfort
level with relationships. Introverts tend to be
reserved, timid, and quiet.
Agreeableness – describes someone who
is good natured, cooperative, warm and
trusting. People who score low on
agreeableness are cold, disagreeable, and
antagonistic.
27
28. Conscientious - responsible, hard-
working, dependable, persistent, and
organised– Those who score low on this
dimension are easily distracted, lazy,
disorganised, and unreliable.
Emotional stability – tests a person’s
ability to withstand stress. –calm, self-
confident, cool, and secure (positive)
versus nervous, anxious, depressed, and
insecure (negative) .
28
29. Openness to experience – range
of interests and fascination with
novelty., imagination, artistic
sensitivity, cultured, curiosity, and
creativity. Those at the other end are
conventional and find comfort in the
familiar.- practical with narrow
interests.
29
30. Criticism
> Some theorists argue that
simply identifying traits is not
enough. Personality is dynamic and
not completely stable.
> Trait theories ignore the
influence of situations.
30
31. 2. Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic theory (the
uncoscious determinants of behaviour
• Based on the work of Sigmund Freud, this theory
emphasises the unconscious determinants of
behaviour. Freud saw personality as the interaction
between 3 elements of personality, viz., the id, ego, and
superego. The id is the most primitive element, the
source of drives and impulses that operates in an
uncensored manner. The superego , similar to our
conscience, contains values and the ‘shoulds and
should-nots’ of the personality – ongoing conflict
between the id and the superego. The ego manages the
conflict between the Id and the superego.
31
32. In this role, the ego compromises, and
the result is the individual’s use of
defense mechanisms such as denial
of reality.
The contribution of this theory is its
focus on unconscious influences on
behaviour.
32
33. 3. Humanistic theory
• Carl Rogers believed that all people have a basic
drive toward self-actualisation, (Abraham Maslow)
which is the quest to be all you can be. The theory
focuses on individual growth and improvement –
distinctly people centred and also emphasises the
individual’s view of the world- contributes an
understanding of the self to personality theory and
contends that the self-concept is the most
important part of an individual’s personality.
33
34. 4. Integrative Approach
Personality is described as a composite of the
individual’s psychological processes. Personality
dispositions include emotions , cognitions,
attitudes, expectancies, and fantasies. Dispositions
mean the tendencies of individuals to respond to
situations in consistent ways. Influenced by both
genetics and experiences, dispositions can be
modified. The integrative approach focuses on
both permanent (Dispositions) and situational
variables as combined predictors of behaviour.
34
35. • More importantly, it draws on the
self-concept including nature
(heredity and physiological/biological
dimensions) and nurture
(environmental, developmental
dimensions), dispositional traits, the
social cognitive interactions between
the person and the environment,
and the sociailisation process.
35
36. Major Personality Attributes
Influencing OB
• Locus of control
• Machiavellianism
• Narcissism
• Self-esteem
• Self-monitoring
• Risk taking
• Type A personality
36
37. 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.
38. • Research shows that people who rate high in
externality are less satisfied with their jobs,
have high absenteeism rates, are more
alienated from the work setting and are less
involved in their jobs than are internals – less
likely initially to get a job. In contrast to
externals, internals exhibit more motivation,
and willingness to take action in their initial
interviews,
38
39. • Externals are more dissatisfied , as they
perceive themselves as having little control
over the organisational outcomes that are
important to them. Internals. Similarly placed
attribute organisational outcomes to their
own actions. If they are dissatisfied, they will
quit.
• Absenteeism on account of sickness is lower
among internals as they assume responsibility
for personal health.
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40. Overall, internals are better performers,
depending on the jobs – search more actively
for information before making a decision,
more motivated to achieve, make greater
attempt to control their environment – more
likely to assume managerial positions and
prefer participative management. They show
higher motivation, hold stronger beliefs that
effort leads to performance, receive higher
salaries and display less anxiety than
externals. 40
41. Externals are more compliant, will follow
instructions – succeed at well structured and
routine jobs.- reluctant to participate in
decision making.
Internals will do well on sophisticated tasks,
requiring complex information processing and
learning. –More suited to jobs requiring
autonomy, e.g., sales job. They may not like
close supervision
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Machiavellianism
Conditions Favoring High Machs
•Direct interaction
•Minimal rules and regulations
•Emotions distract for others
Machiavellianism (Mach)
Degree to which an individual is pragmatic,
maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends
can justify means.
43. Machiavellianism
• Named after Niccolo Machiavalli – 16th century –
how to gain and use power. “If it works, use it” –
consistent with high-Mach perspective. High-Machs
manipulate more, are persuaded less, and persuade
others. They flourish
- when they interact face-to-face with
others rather than indirectly,
- when there are minimum rules, and
- when emotional involvement with
details irrelevant to winning will distract low-Machs.
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44. Narcissism
• Likes to be the centre of attraction –
looks into the mirror frequently –
extravagant dreams - thinks he is
capable of many things
• A person with a grandiose sense of self-
importance, requires excessive
admiration, has a sense of entitlement,
and is arrogant – supervisors rate them
as worse leaders.
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45. • E.g., an ORACLE Co executive
described that Co’s CEO Larry Ellison
as follows; “The difference between
God and Larry is that God does not
believe that he is Larry.”
• They tend to be selfish, treat others
as inferior, exploitative, think others
exist for their benefit.
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46. 4–46
Self-Esteem and Self-Monitoring
Self-concept is the people’s attempts
to understand themselves. The self
may be viewed as the personality
viewed from within.
Self-Esteem (SE) - Individuals’ degree of
liking or disliking themselves.-
people’s self perceived competence
and self-image.
47. • Self esteem is directly related to expectations of
success – high SEs believe they have the ability to
succeed at work. – take more risks at job, choose
unconventional jobs. High SEs are more satisfied
with their jobs.
• Low SEs are more susceptible to external
influences- depend on positive evaluation from
others – seek approval from others, conform to
beliefs and behaviours of those they respect –
concerned with pleasing others. They compliment
individuals who give them positive feedback and
cut down those who give negative feedback.
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48. • High esteem can be a good thing, but only if it is
nurtured and channeled in constructive and ethical
ways. Otherwise it can become antisocial and
destructive. Others may treat it as boasting as
egotistical. OBSE, Organisation Based Self Esteem is
“the self-perceived value that individuals have of
themselves as organisation members acting within
an organisation context.” people with high OBSE
view themselves positively. And a meta analysis
found significant positive relationship with
performance and satisfaction on the job.
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49. • Individuals high in self monitoring show adaptability
– highly sensitive to external cues- can present
contradictions between their public persona and
private self. Low self monitors cannot disguise-
display their true dispositions and attitudes – high
behavioural consistency .
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Self-Monitoring
A personality trait that measures an individuals ability
to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational
factors. It is the extent to which people base their
behaviour on cues from other people and situations.
50. • High self monitors pay more
attention the behaviour of others
and can conform more easily – more
mobile in their careers, receive more
promotions and occupy central
positions needing to play multiple
and contradictory roles.
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51. 4–51
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.
52. Type A personality
• Aggressive involvement in a chronic, incessant
struggle to achieve more and more in less and less
time, and, if necessary, against the opposing
efforts of other things or other people.
• Type A’s are
- always moving, walking, and eating rapidly,
sense of time urgency – “hurry sickness”
- feel impatient with the rate at which most
events take place
- Status insecurity (feeling unsure of oneself
deep down inside)
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53. - strive to think or do 2 or more things at a
time
- cannot cope with leisure time
- obsessed with numbers, measuring their
success in terms of how many or how much of
everything they acquire.
- competitiveness,
- aggression and hostility in response to
frustration and conflict
- a quest for achievement.
Has been referred to coronary-prone behaviour
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54. Type B
‘Rarely harried by he desire to obtain a widely
increasing number of things or participate in an
endless growing series of events in an ever increasing
amount of time.”
- never suffer from a sense of time urgency with its
accompanying impatience;
- feel no need to display or discuss either their
achievements or accomplishments unless such
exposure is demanded by the situation;
- play for fun and relaxation, rather than to exhibit
their superiority at any cost;
- can relax without guilt
- less coronary-prone
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55. As operate under moderate to high stress levels –
work under continuous time pressure, a life of
deadlines – fast workers, competitiveness in long
hrs, frequently make poor decisions – rarely
creative because of concern with quantity and
speed, rely on past experiences when faced with
problems – easier to predict – do better at job
interviews – type Bs make it to the top. Type As
are in sales, Bs in senior positions – promotions
go to those who are wise, tactful and creative
than to the hasty , hostile and merely agile.
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56. 4–56
Personality Types
Proactive Personality
Identifies opportunities, shows initiative, takes
action, and perseveres until meaningful change
occurs.
Creates positive change in the environment,
regardless or even in spite of constraints or
obstacles.
57. 4–57
Achieving Person-Job Fit
Personality Types
•Realistic
•Investigative
•Social
•Conventional
•Enterprising
•Artistic
Personality-Job Fit Theory
(Holland)
Identifies six personality
types and proposes that
the fit between personality
type and occupational
environment determines
satisfaction and turnover.
58. 4–58
Emotions- Why Emotions Were
Ignored in OB
• The “myth of rationality”
– Organizations are not emotion-free.
• Emotions of any kind are disruptive to
organizations.
– Original OB focus was solely on the effects of
strong negative emotions that interfered with
individual and organizational efficiency.
59. 4–59
What Are Emotions? (cont’d)
Emotional Labor
A situation in which an employee expresses
organizationally desired emotions during
interpersonal transactions.
Emotional Dissonance
A situation in which an employee
must project one emotion while simultaneously
feeling another.
60. 4–60
Felt versus Displayed Emotions
Felt Emotions
An individual’s actual emotions.
Displayed Emotions
Emotions that are organizationally required and
considered appropriate in a given job.
61. 4–61
Emotion Dimensions
• Variety of emotions
– Positive
– Negative
• Intensity of emotions
– Personality
– Job Requirements
• Frequency and duration of emotions
– How often emotions are exhibited.
– How long emotions are displayed.
62. 4–62
Gender and Emotions
• Women
– Can show greater emotional expression.
– Experience emotions more intensely.
– Display emotions more frequently.
– Are more comfortable in expressing emotions.
– Are better at reading others’ emotions.
• Men
– Believe that displaying emotions is inconsistent with the male
image.
– Are innately less able to read and to identify with others’
emotions.
– Have less need to seek social approval by showing positive
emotions.
63. 4–63
Affective Events Theory (AET)
• Emotions are negative or positive responses to a work environment event.
– Personality and mood determine the intensity of the emotional
response.
– Emotions can influence a broad range of work performance and job
satisfaction variables.
• Implications of the theory:
– Individual response reflects emotions and mood cycles.
– Current and past emotions affect job satisfaction.
– Emotional fluctuations create variations in job satisfaction.
– Emotions have only short-term effects on job performance.
– Both negative and positive emotions can distract workers and reduce
job performance.
64. 4–64
OB Applications of Understanding
Emotions
• Ability and Selection
– Emotions affect employee effectiveness.
• Decision Making
– Emotions are an important part of the decision-
making process in organizations.
• Motivation
– Emotional commitment to work and high motivation
are strongly linked.
• Leadership
– Emotions are important to acceptance of messages
from organizational leaders.
65. 4–65
OB Applications… (cont’d)
• Interpersonal Conflict
– Conflict in the workplace and individual emotions are
strongly intertwined.
• Customer Services
– Emotions affect service quality delivered to customers
which, in turn, affects customer relationships.
• Deviant Workplace Behaviors
– Negative emotions lead to employee deviance (actions
that violate norms and threaten the organization).
• Productivity failures
• Property theft and destruction
• Political actions
• Personal aggression
66. 4–66
Ability and Selection
• Emotional Intelligence (EI)
– Self-awareness
– Self-management
– Self-motivation
– Empathy
– Social skills
• Research Findings
– High EI scores, not high IQ
scores, characterize high
performers.
Emotional Intelligence
An assortment of
noncognitive skills,
capabilities, and
competencies that
influence a person’s
ability to succeed in
coping with
environmental
demands and
pressures.