A short and descriptive slide on the topic "PERSONALITY" of Organizational Behavior

1. ANKITA NAHATA,
1st SEMESTER,
MBA_II,
TECHNO INDIA.

3.  The term PERSONALITY is derived from the
Latin word persona, which was the name given
to the masks that actors wore and the characters
they portrayed.

4. “Personality is the stable set of characteristics and
tendencies; that determine those commonalities and
differences in the psychological behaviour(thoughts,
feelings and actions) of people; that have continuity in
time and; that may or may not be easily understood in
terms of the social and biological pressures of the
immediate situation alone.”

5.  Personality is sometimes unique and specific.
 Personality exhibits self-consciousness.
 It is dynamic and continuously in
the process of change and
modification.
 Every personality is the product of
heredity and environment.
 Personality of an individual can be
described as well as measured.

7. 1. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

8.  CONSCIENTIOUSNESS,
people who are responsible,
organized and persistent.
 Highly AGREEABLE people
are cooperative, warm and trusting.
 People with positive NEUROTICISM
tend to be calm, self confident
and secure.
 Extremely OPEN people are creative,
curious and artistically sensitive.
 EXTROVERTS tend to be assertive
and sociable

9.  EGO follows the “principle of reality” and acts with
intelligence to control, select and decide what
appetites have to be satisfied and in which way
they have to be satisfied. It is the ego’s job to
meet the need of the id, while taking into
consideration the reality of the situation.
 SUPER EGO is a decision making entity which
decides what is good or bad to the social
norms and therefore acceptable or otherwise.
It is idealistic and does not care for realities.
 ID does not care about reality, about the
needs of anyone else, only its own satisfaction.
The id wants whatever feels good at the time,
with no consideration for the reality of the
situation.
Topographic approach

10. LEARNING
APPROACH
According to Albert
Bandura and Richard
Walters, an individual
presents to the world at
large as his personality,
is acquired through a
continuous process of
structuring and
restructuring of
experiences, gathered by
means of social learning
and later imitated in
corresponding
situations. It may
involve real as well as
symbolic models.

11.  HEREDITY : It refers to those factors
that were determined at conception.
Eg. Physical stature, facial attractiveness,
gender, complexion and etc.
 ENVIRONMENT : Among the factors that
exert pressures on our personality
formation are the culture in which we are
raised; our early conditioning; the norms
among our family, friends and social groups;
and other influences that we experience.
 SITUATION : It influences the effects of
heredity & environment on personality.
An individual’s personality, although
generally stable & consistent, does
change in different situations.

12. ASSESSMENT
OF
PERSONALITY
TECHNIQUES
AND METHODS :
OBSERVATIONS : The
observer decides what
personality traits or
characteristics he needs to
know, and they then
observes the relevant
activities of the subject in
real life situations.
SITUATIONAL TESTS :
Here situations are
artificially created in which
an individual is expected to
perform acts related to the
personality traits under
testing.
 QUESTIONNAIRE : This is the most
popular method and is quite useful in
collecting both quantitative as well as
qualitative information. There can be
various forms of questionnaire whose
structure and form depends upon the type
of information one is trying to seek.
 RATING SCALE : It is used to assess
where an individual stands in terms of
other people’s opinion of some of his
personality traits. It reflects the impression
the subject has made upon the person who
rates him.
 INTERVIEW : It is a technique of eliciting
information directly from the subject about
his personality in fact-to-face contacts. It
gives an opportunity for mutual exchange
of ideas and information between the
subject and the psychologists.

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