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MCA-110 Organizational Behavior

Personality

Dr. S. Suresh
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Applications
NIT Kurukshetra

February 14, 2024 MCA110 – Organizational Behavior 1


Personality
❖ The word personality is derived from a Greek
word “persona” which means “to speak
through.” Personality is the combination of
characteristics or qualities that forms a
person’s unique identity. It signifies the role
which a person plays in public. Every
individual has a unique, personal and major
determinant of his behavior that defines
his/her personality
Personality

Personality trait is basically influenced by these


major features −

◼ Inherited characteristics
◼ Learned characteristics
◼ Environment
◼ Situation
Inherited Characteristics
◼ The features an individual acquires from their
parents or forefathers, in other words the gifted
features an individual possesses by birth is
considered as inherited characteristics. It consists
of the following features −

◼ Color of a person’s eye


◼ Religion/Race of a person
◼ Shape of the nose
◼ Shape of earlobes
Learned Characteristics
◼ Nobody learns everything by birth. First, our
school is our home, then our society, followed by
educational institutes. The characteristics an
individual acquires by observing, practicing, and
learning from others and the surroundings is
known as learned characteristics.
◼ Learned characteristics includes the following
features −
◼ Perception − Result of different senses like feeling, hearing etc.

◼ Values − Influences perception of a situation, decision making


process.

◼ Attitude − Positive or negative attitude like expressing one’s thought.


Environment

The environmental factors play a substantial role in


shaping our personalities like culture in which we
are raised, our early conditioning, the norms
among our family , friends and social groups etc.

Personality characteristics learned from environment


includes: Perception, values, attitude etc.
Situation

Influences the effects of heredity and


environment on personality. Different demands
of different situations call forth different aspects
of one’s personality.
◼ Personality can change-

For instance, an individual’s personality may


be altered by major life events, such as the death of
a loved one, a divorce, or a significant career
promotion.

Individual’s personality changes not only in


response to abrupt events but also due to gradual
maturing process.
Big five personality model
◼ The big five personality model identifies five types
of personalities and every individual falls into at
least one of these types.
Agreeableness
◼ Agreeableness refers to a person’s ability to get
along with others.
◼ Agreeableness causes some people to be gentle,
cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and good-
natured in their dealings with others.
◼ But it results in others being irritable, short-
tempered, uncooperative, and generally
antagonistic toward other people.
Conscientiousness
◼ Conscientiousness refers to the number of
goals on which a person focuses.
◼ People who focus on relatively few goals at one
time are likely to be organized, systematic,
careful, thorough, responsible, and self-disciplined
as they work to pursue those goals.
◼ Others, however, tend to take on a wider array of
goals and, as a result, to be more disorganized,
careless, and irresponsible, as well as less
thorough and self-disciplined.
◼ The third of the “big five” personality dimensions
is
◼ Negative Emotionality
◼ People with less negative emotionality will be
relatively poised, calm, resilient, and secure. But
people with more negative emotionality might be
expected to handle job stress, pressure, and
tension better. Their stability might also lead
them to be seen as more reliable than their less
stable counterparts.
Extraversion
◼ Extraversion refers to a person’s comfort level
with relationships.
◼ People who are called extraverts are sociable,
talkative, assertive, and open to establishing new
relationships.
◼ But introverts are much less sociable, talkative,
and assertive, and not as open to establishing
new relationships.
Openness
◼ Openness refers to a person’s rigidity of beliefs
and range of interests.
◼ People with high levels of openness are willing to
listen to new ideas and to change their own ideas,
beliefs, and attitudes as a result of new
information.
◼ They also tend to have broad interests and to be
curious, imaginative, and creative.
◼ On the other hand, people with low levels of
openness tend to be less receptive to new ideas
and less willing to change their minds.

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