2. PERSONALITY AND ITS TRAITS
Akhil Sakarwal
Deepak Gupta
Sovan Kundu
Rishab Bansal
Sunit Sharma
Kaustubh K

3. What Is Personality?
Personality
The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and
interacts with others, measurable traits a person
exhibits
Personality Traits
Enduring characteristics
that describe an
individual‟s behavior
Personality
Determinants
• Heredity
• Environment
• Situation

4. 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)
Score is a combination of all four
(e.g., ENTJ)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
A personality test that taps four characteristics and
classifies people into different personality types

5. Personality Theories
Trait Theory - understand individuals by breaking
down behavior patterns into observable traits
Psychodynamic Theory - emphasizes the
unconscious determinants of behavior
Humanistic Theory - emphasizes individual growth
and improvement
Integrative Approach - describes personality as a
composite of an individual‟s psychological
processes

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

7. Personality Characteristics
in Organizations
Positive Effect - an individual‟s tendency to
accentuate the positive aspects of
oneself, other people, and the world in general
Negative Effect - an individual‟s tendency to
accentuate the negative aspects of
oneself, other people, and the world in general

8. Big 5 Personality traits
• Arvind Kejriwal : Extraversion :
Assertive , Sociable
• Agreeableness : Cooperative , Warm , agreeable
• Amitabh bachchan :Conscientiousness :
Hardworking, organized, dependable
• MS Dhoni : Emotional Stability :
Calm , self confident , cool.
• Ratan Tata :Openness to experience :
Creative , Curious , Cultured

9. “Being the richest man in the cemetery
doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at
night saying we've done something
wonderful, that's what matters to me”
 Identify the famous person who
said this ?
 Identify the personality trait ?
Openness to experience

10. He has won the prestigious Arjuna award
in 1998. He has named as “Wisden
Cricketer of the Year”
 Identify the famous person ?
 Identify his personality trait ?
Conscientiousness

11. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee paid tribute to a lady on her
103rd birth anniversary last month?
 Identify the famous person ?
 Identify her personality trait ?
Agreeableness

12.  Identify the famous person ?
 Identify her personality trait ?
“If you want to feel good you have to go out and
do some good”
Extraversion

13. 5 Times World Champion in Boxing?
 Identify the famous person ?
 Identify her personality trait ?
Emotional Stability

14. Viru
Sahastrabuddhe

15. Type „A‟ Personality
 Impatient and hyperactive
 Workaholics
 Highly competitive and ambitious
 Always in a hurry
 Proactive and obsessed with time management
 Easily annoyed or upset
 Sense of being under constant time pressure
 Never satisfied
 Try to do multiple things at a time
 Constant apprehension of future disaster
 Prone to outburst of rage or temper tantrums
 Actively try to control situation at hand – born leaders
 Achievement oriented
 Prone to high risk of heart diseases

16. Sharad
Pawar

17. Personality type „B‟
 Relaxed
 Non competitive and less driven
 Easy going
 Patient
 Optimistic
 Have a sense of humour
 At piece with their environment and themselves
 Able to express their emotions appropriately
 Pleasant demeanor
 Temporary fearlessness in face of trauma
 Less susceptible to disease
 Though not driven over achievers , often successful in career
 Good decision maker
 Not prone to outburst of rage or anger

18. Job Fit
 Job fit is a concept that explains
whether the intersection between an
employee's strengths, needs and
experience, and the requirements of a
particular job and work environment -
match - or not.
 Job fit assessments help you make
better hiring decisions by helping you
understand the core characteristics of
employees.

20. Concept
 Matching the job requirements with
personality characterstics.
 Identifies Job satisfaction, motivation &
performance
 Provides detailed analysis of tasks &
responsibilities

21. Factors
 Cultural fit
 Experience
 Values & Beliefs
 Job Content
 Education & Training

22. Benefits
 Retention & Turnover
 Brain Drain
 Attracting talent
 Recruiting & Staffing
 Performance

24. Thank You 