Human Behavior in

Organizations

Personality
Reporters:
•ABDULGAFOR, NAWAL M.
•ABENOJA, ADELPA A.
 What is Personality?
 The overall profile or combination of characteristics
that capture the unique nature of a person as that
person reacts and interacts with others.

 Combines a set of physical and mental

characteristics that reflect how a person looks,
thinks, acts, and feels.

 Predictable relationships are expected between

people’s personalities and their behaviors.
Personality Determinants
• Biological Factor
• Environmental Factor
• Situational Factor

Biological Factor: refers to those factors that were determined at conception.

Physical structure, facial attractiveness, gender, temperament, energy level
etc.
Environmental Factor: 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 etc.
Situational Factor: A third, the situation, influences the effects of heredity and
environment on personality. An individual’s generally stable and consistent,
does change in different situations.
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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
MBTI is one of the most widely
used personality frameworks
which has no hard evidence as
valid measure of personality.

Personality Types
•Extroverted or Introverted (E or I)
•Sensing or Intuitive (S or N)
•Thinking or Feeling (T or F)
•Perceiving or Judging (P or J)

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The Big Five Model

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 Major Personality Attributes Influencing OB
➢ Locus of control
➢ Machiavellianism
➢ Self-esteem
➢ Self-monitoring
➢ Propensity for risk taking
➢ Type A personality

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Locus of Control

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Machiavellianism

Conditions Favoring High Machs

•Direct interaction
•Minimal rules and regulations
•Distracting emotions

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Self-Esteem and Self Monitoring

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 Risk-Taking
➢ High Risk-taking Managers
– Make quicker decisions.
– Use less information to make decisions.
– Operate in smaller and more entrepreneurial organizations.
➢ Low Risk-taking Managers
– Are slower to make decisions.
– Require more information before making decisions.
– Exist in larger organizations with stable environments.
➢ Risk Propensity
– Aligning managers’ risk-taking propensity to job
requirements should be beneficial to organizations.

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Personality
Types

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Personality
Types

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Achieving Job-Fit

Personality Types
•Realistic
•Investigative
•Social
•Conventional
•Enterprising
•Artistic

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 Hollands

Typology of

Personality and

Congruent

Occupation

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