School of Business Economics and Management

Organizational behaviour
PERSONALITY

Assoc. Professor Trajkova Kate, PhD

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Personality Model: Big 5

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Model: Mayer Briggs
Who are you?
 Personality
• Personal traits/characteristics that lead to behavioral patterns

“Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual, of those psycho-physical

systems that characterize his/ her characteristic adjustment to the environment” – Allport

“ Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and

behaving “ - APA,

• understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as

sociability or irritability.
• To predict

• Personality encompasses a persons relatively stable set of feelings, thoughts, behaviors

• Unique combination
 Does it mean that it does not change?
individual Close your eyes and see yourself 10 years ago… which traits are dominant, how
Exercise do you behave… move slowly through the life timeline and stoooooppp stop
stop here on your 20s.. Stay here.. Just observe that person.. Just look at
yourself and what do you see? Is that the same one or.. Who is that person?
Could you find the differences? What is different ? Which traits, behaviors have
been changed through all these years?…

Are you the same one?

 Personality at work

• Jigsaw puzzle
• How much our personality will fit into an
organization, on the workplace, in the
organizational culture ….
• Matching!!!!!
• Modest correlation
• Context (culture, values, norms, will..)
• Application of our personality in
different context for different purposes
• Expectations (job, role, rules)
• Authenticity
• Risk of suppression
 https://youtu.be/fqf4Lvd01NQ

https://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
https://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
 Additional personal traits
 Self monitoring
 Observe the appearance and behavior …
 Demands vs managing impression
 modification  Proactivity
 Fixing problems, initiate
meaningful changes and remove
obstacles
 Self esteem  Engaged in learning new for
 Overall feelings about her/himself improved performance
 Self worth Overall value assigned to yourself
 Job Satisfaction
 Engagement
 Performance
 General employee experience
https://more-selfesteem.com/self-esteem-around-the-world/

 Self efficacy
 Belief that can perform successfully specific task
 Performance vs procrastination
 empowerment
 Mayer Briggs personality types
 Holy Grail
 Scientifically proved and effective tool
 Carl Jung
 Developed 32 types of personality
 Mother –daughter team revised and reduced to 16 types

 Designed by the 4 preferences (or psychological dimensions)

 How we experience the world (where we get our energy):
 Extroversion-introversion
 Taking Information (focus of our attention)
 gathering (sensation or intuition)
 Approach to learning new thing and possibilities
 Decision making preferences
 evaluating (thinking or feeling)
 Regards complexity (how we organize our world)
 Judging and perceiving

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Questions