ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

2BBA H B

SESSIONS 9 TO 12

Dr. Sumathi Annamalai

Associate Professor
School of Business and Management
PERSONALITY

 Defining

 Measuring Personality

 Determinants of Personality

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 PERSONALITY
 The stable patterns of behaviour and consistent internal
states that determine how an individual reacts to and
interacts with others.

 Personality traits: Enduring characteristics that describe 3

an individual’s behaviour.
ARE PEOPLE BORN WITH THEIR
PERSONALITIES?

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ARE PEOPLE BORN WITH THEIR
PERSONALITIES?

 Heredity

 Environmental Factors

 Situational Conditions

 Determinants of Personality

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 UNIT 2: PERSONALITY

Defining and Measuring Personality, Determinants of

Personality, The Big Five Personality Model, Myers-

Briggs Type Indicator, and Other Personality Traits like

Authoritarianism, Locus of Control, Machiavellianism,

Self Esteem, Risk Taking, Self-Monitoring and

Achievement Oriented

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 https://www.truity.com/personality-test/17315/

test-results/32244353

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 A FEW PERSONALITY INSTRUMENTS
Personality Traits like

 Locus of Control

 Machiavellianism

 Self Esteem

 Self-Monitoring

 Risk Taking

 Achievement Oriented
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 Authoritarianism
LOCUS OF CONTROL
 Locus of control: The degree to which people
believe they are in control of their own fates.

 Internals Individuals who believe that they

control their destinies.

 Externals Individuals who believe that their lives

are controlled by outside forces, such as luck or
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DO WE NEED BOTH INTERNALS AND EXTERNALS, AS A BLEND IN OUR TEAM?

WOULD SOMEONE LIKE TO START?

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 A FEW PERSONALITY INSTRUMENTS
Personality Traits like

 Locus of Control

 Machiavellianism

 Self Esteem

 Self-Monitoring

 Risk Taking

 Achievement Oriented
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 Authoritarianism
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 Machiavellianism:

 The degree to which an individual is pragmatic,

maintains emotional distance, and believes that ends can

justify means.
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 Self-esteem

 The degree to which individuals like or dislike themselves.

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 Self-monitoring

 A personality trait that measures an individual’s ability to

adjust behaviour to external, situational factors.

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 A FEW PERSONALITY INSTRUMENTS
Personality Traits like

 Locus of Control

 Machiavellianism

 Self Esteem

 Self-Monitoring

 Risk Taking

 Achievement Oriented
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 Authoritarianism
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 Risk Taking

 A person’s willingness to take chances or risks

 People differ in their willingness to take chances. Will

you recruit high risk taking personalities as your team
member / employee?

 As a research, 79 managers worked on simulated

exercises that required them to make hiring decisions.
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decisions and used less information in making their
choices than did the low risk-taking managers. 17
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 Authoritarianism

 According to Adorno's theory, a few elements of the Authoritarian

personality type are:

 Blind commitment to conventional beliefs about right and wrong

 Respect for submission to acknowledged authority; Belief in aggression toward

those who do not subscribe to conventional thinking, or who are different

A negative view of people in general - i.e. the belief that people would all lie,

cheat or steal if given the opportunity

A need for strong leadership which displays uncompromising power

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 Resistance to creative, dangerous ideas. A black and white worldview.
Source: https://www.psychologistworld.com/influence-personality/authoritarian-
personality
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 Achievement Oriented (nAch)

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 MBTI (MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR)

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http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp

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 UNIT 2: PERSONALITY

Defining and Measuring Personality, Determinants of

Personality, The Big Five Personality Model, Myers-

Briggs Type Indicator, and Other Personality Traits like

Authoritarianism, Locus of Control, Machiavellianism,

Self Esteem, Risk Taking, Self-Monitoring and

Achievement Oriented

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 SPEAK OUT WHAT YOU VALUE OR
THINK

 Is capital punishment right or wrong?

 Is euthanasia OK for you?
 If a person likes power, is that good or bad?
 They are based on our value system
 Values: Concepts or beliefs that guide how we make decisions
about and evaluations of behaviours and events.
 How do you think values affect our behaviour?
 How do you want your people to remember you, after
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you leave this life journey?

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 ROKEACH VALUE SURVEY

 Milton Rokeach classified the values that people hold into

two sets, with each set containing 18 individual value items

 Terminal values Goals that individuals would like to

achieve during their lifetimes
 Refers to desirable end-states of existence

 Instrumental values Preferable ways of behaving, such as

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