This document defines personality and discusses its major determinants like heredity and environment. It also describes several personality assessment tools - the MBTI preferences, Big Five personality traits, locus of control, self-efficacy, self-esteem, self-monitoring, and PANAS. Personality influences individual behavior and characteristics that are relatively stable. The MBTI and Big Five frameworks identify preferences and traits related to how people gather information, make decisions, interact with others and the world. Other sections cover sources of self-efficacy, relationships between self-esteem and success/failure, and differences between high and low self-monitors.

1. Dr. Sajeet Pradhan
sajeet.pradhan@imi.edu

2. A relatively stable set of
characteristics that influences an
individual’s behavior
Definition of Personality

3. Major Determinants of Personality
 Heredity
 Environment
 Situation

4. MBTI Preferences
Preferences Represents
Extraversion Introversion How one
re-energizes
Sensing Intuiting How one gathers
information
Thinking Feeling How one makes
decisions
Judging Perceiving How one orients to the
outer world

5. Big Five Personality Traits
Extraversion Gregarious, assertive,
sociable
Agreeableness Cooperative, warm,
agreeable
Conscientiousness Hardworking, organized,
dependable
Emotional stability Calm, self-confidant, cool
Openness to
experience
Creative, curious,
cultured

7. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Locus of Control
Internal External
I control what
happens to me!
People and
circumstances
control my fate!

8. -Beliefs and expectations about one’s ability to
accomplish a specific task effectively
Sources of self-efficacy
 Prior experiences and prior success
 Behavior models (observing success)
 Persuasion
 Assessment of current physical & emotional
capabilities
Self-Efficacy

9. Self-Esteem
Feelings of Self Worth
Success tends
to increase
self-esteem
Failure tends
to decrease
self-esteem

10.  High self-monitors
 flexible: adjust behavior
according to the situation
and the behavior of others
 can appear unpredictable
& inconsistent
 Low self-monitors
 act from internal states
rather than from
situational cues
 show consistency
 less likely to respond to
work group norms or
supervisory feedback
Self-Monitoring
Behavior based on cues from people & situations

11. Positive Affect - an individual’s tendency to accentuate the
positive aspects of oneself, other people, and the world
in general
Negative Affect - an individual’s tendency to accentuate
the negative aspects of oneself, other people, and the
world in general
PANAS

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