Personality

1. PERSONALITY
Reported by:
Ali, Norhanie M.
Manalundong, Raidah M.
Copyright ©2005 by South-Western, a division of Thomson Learning. All rights reserved.

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

3. Roles Of Personality in
Organizational Behavior
Personality plays a key role in organizational
behavior. Peoples personalities influence their
behavior in groups, their attitudes, and the way
they make decisions. In the workplace, personality
affects such things as motivation, leadership,
performance, and conflict.
The more that management understands how
personality in organizational behavior works, the
better equipped they are to be effective and
accomplish their goals.

4. 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
Sources: P. T. Costa and R. R. McCrae, The NEO-PI Personality Inventory (Odessa, Fla.: Psychological Assessment Resources, 1992); J. F. Salgado, “The
Five Factor Model of Personality and Job Performance in the European Community,” Journal of Applied Psychology 82 (1997): 30-43.

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

6. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Self-Efficacy - 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

7. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Self-Esteem
Feelings of Self Worth
Success tends
to increase
self-esteem
Failure tends
to decrease
self-esteem

8. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Self-Monitoring
Behavior based on cues from people & situations
 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

9. Who Is Most Likely to . . .
Low-self
monitors
High-self
monitors
Get promoted
Change employers
Make a job-related
geographic move

Accomplish tasks, meet other’s
expectations, seek out central positions
in social networks

Self-promote

Demonstrate higher levels of managerial
self-awareness; base behavior on other’s
cues and the situation

10. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
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

11. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
A strong
situation can
overwhelm the effects
of individual personalities
by providing strong cues
for appropriate
behavior

12. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Strong
personalities
will dominate
in a weak
situation

13. Factors of
Personality
 Environmental Factors
 Physical Factors
 Situational Factors
 Hereditary
 Family and Social Factors
 Identification Process
 Cultural Factors
 Intelligence
 Sex Differences
 Psychological Factors
In the field of organizational behavior, personality
is the aggregate of a person’s feelings, thinking,
behaviors and responses to different
situations and people.

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