Human Behavior in organization - Personality

1. PERSONALITY

2. Definitions
‘Personality is the dynamic organisation within an individual of those
psychological systems that determine his unique adjustments to his
environment.’
- Gordon Allport
Personality is the sum total ways in which an individual reacts to and
interacts with others.
- Stephen Robins

3. PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS
Individual Personality is the result of heredity
and environment and the third factor is
recognised to be situation.

4. HEREDITY
Heredity refers to those factors that were determined at conception. Physical
stature, facial attractiveness, temperament, muscle composition and reflexes,
energy level, and biological rhythms are characteristics that are generally
considered to be either completely or substantially who the parents are; that is,
by their biological, physiological, and inherent makeup.
The heredity approach argues that the ultimate explanation of an individual’s
personality is the molecular structure of the genes.

5. ENVIRONMENT
Environment factor like culture in which one is
raised, early conditioning; norms among
family, friends, social group and other
influences that one experiences, exert
pressure on personality of an individual.

6. SITUTATION
Situation influences the effect of heredity
and environment on personality. A
individual’s personality, although generally
stable and consistent, does change in
different situations. The different demands
of different situations call for different
aspects one’s personality.

7. LOCUS OF CONTROL
Locus of control is the degree to which
people believe they are masters of their
own fate
Some people believe that they are masters of their own fate. Other people see
themselves as pawns of fate, believing that what happens to them in their lives is
due to luck or chance.

8. INTERNALS
Individual who believes that they control
what happens to them.
EXTERNALS
Individuals who believe that what happens
to them is controlled by outside forces such
as luck or chance.

9. TYPE A AND TYPE B PERSONALITY

10. TYPE A PERSONALITY
A person with a Type A personality is aggressively
involved in chronic, incessant struggle to achieve
more and more in less and less time, and if
required to do so, against the opposing efforts of
other things or other persons.

11. Type A’s
1. Are always moving, walking, and eating rapidly
2. Feels impatient with the rate at which most event take place
3. Strive to think or to do two or more things at once
4. Cannot cope with leisure time
5. Are obsessed with numbers, measuring their success

12. TYPE B PERSONALITY
Type B is exactly opposite to type A are rarely
harried by the desire to obtain a wildly increasing
number of things or participate in an endless
growing series of events in an ever decreasing
amount of time.

13. Type B’s
1. Never suffer from a sense of time urgency with the accompanying impatience
2. Feel no need to display or discuss their achievements
3. Play for fun and relaxation and not exhibit superiority
4. Can relax without guilt