Personalities and values

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Personality and
Values

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What is Personality?
Personality
The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and
interacts with others.
Personality Traits
Enduring characteristics
that describe an
individual’s behavior.
Personality
Determinants
• Heredity
• Environment
• Situation
Personality
Determinants
• Heredity
• Environment
• Situation

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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)
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)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
A personality test that taps four characteristics and
classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types.

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Myers-
Briggs
Sixteen
Primar
y Traits

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Locus of Control
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.

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Self-Esteem and Self-Monitoring
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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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Values
Values
Basic convictions that a specific
mode of conduct or end-state of
existence is personally or socially
preferable to an opposite or
converse mode of conduct or
end-state of existence.
Value System
A hierarchy based on a ranking
of an individual’s values in terms
of their intensity.

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Importance of Values
 Provide understanding of the attitudes,
motivation, and behaviors of individuals and
cultures.
 Influence our perception of the world around
us.
 Represent interpretations of “right” and
“wrong.”
 Imply that some behaviors or outcomes are
preferred over others.

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Types of Values –- Rokeach Value
SurveyTerminal Values
Desirable end-states of
existence; the goals that a
person would like to achieve
during his or her lifetime.
Instrumental Values
Preferable modes of behavior
or means of achieving one’s
terminal values.

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Mean Value
Rankings of
Executives, Union
Members, and
Activists
E X H I B I T 3–2
E X H I B I T 3–2

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Dominant Work Values in Today’s
Workforce

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Values, Loyalty, and Ethical Behavior
Ethical Climate inEthical Climate inEthical Climate inEthical Climate in
Ethical Values andEthical Values and
Behaviors ofBehaviors of
LeadersLeaders

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Hofstede’s Framework for Assessing
Cultures
Power Distance
The extent to which a society accepts that
power in institutions and organizations is
distributed unequally.
low distance: relatively equal distribution
high distance: extremely unequal distribution

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Hofstede’s Framework (cont’d)
Collectivism
A tight social framework in
which people expect
others in groups of which
they are a part to look
after them and protect
them.
Individualism
The degree to which
people prefer to act as
individuals rather than a
member of groups.

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Hofstede’s Framework (cont’d)
Achievement
The extent to which societal
values are characterized by
assertiveness, materialism and
competition.
Nurturing
The extent to which societal
values emphasize relationships
and concern for others.

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Hofstede’s Framework (cont’d)
Uncertainty Avoidance
The extent to which a society feels threatened by
uncertain and ambiguous situations and tries to
avoid them.

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Hofstede’s Framework (cont’d)
Long-term Orientation
A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the future, thrift,
and persistence.
Short-term Orientation
A national culture attribute that
emphasizes the past and
present, respect for tradition,
and fulfilling social obligations.

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Achieving Person-Job Fit
Personality Types
• Realistic
• Investigative
• Social
• Conventional
• Enterprising
• Artistic
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.

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Holland’s
Typology
of
Personalit
y
and
Congruent
Occupatio
ns
E X H I B I T 4–2
E X H I B I T 4–2

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Relationshi
ps among
Occupatio
nal
Personality
Types
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