Chairman, Infosys Technologies Ltd

N. R. Narayana Murthy is the Founder-Chairman of Infosys, a global software consulting company headquartered in Bangalore, India. He founded Infosys in 1981. Mr. Murthy's first job position was at IIM Ahmedabad, where he worked as the chief systems programmer.

After IIM Ahmedabad, he started a company named Softronics in 1976.When that company failed, he joined Patni Computer Systems in Pune, where he met his wife Sudha Murthy who was an engineer working at Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. Ltd.
After settling down in Pune, Mr. Murthy founded Infosys in 1981 with an initial capital injection of Rs 10,000, which was invested by his wife Sudha Murthy

Murthy served as the CEO of Infosys for 21 years.

At Infosys he articulated, designed and implemented the

Global Delivery Model which has become the foundation for the huge success in IT services outsourcing from India.
He also lead the company through several key decisions

including its listing on the Indian stock exchange and on the NASDAQ .
He held the executive position of Chairman of the Board

from 2002 to 2006, when he became the "non-executive" Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor.
In August 2011, he retired completely from the company

and taking the title Chairman Emeritus

Personality is an individuals unique set of traits and characteristics, relatively stable over time. This set of traits is shaped over a period of time depending on various determinants. Three main determinants that shape ones personality are:
Hereditary Early life Situation

We will analyze the personality traits of N.R.Narayan Murthy with the help of a few personality tests, namely:
The Big Five Model The 16 PFS The Managerial Grid The Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator

Type A/B indicator

Nagawara Ramarao Narayana Murthy was born into a Kannada Madhwa Brahmin family in Mysore, Karnataka on August 20, 1946. He has 8 brothers and sister and he was from an average middle class family A bright student, Murthy went on to acquire a degree in Electrical Engineering from Mysore University and later studied Computer Science at the IIT, Kanpur, India.

His father was a high-school teacher and an avid reader of English literature. As a teacher, his father must have instilled in him the greatest qualities of a human being such as humility which he meticul ously followed and nurtured throughout his personal and professional life.

My father ... was a great fan of Western classical music. On Sundays, he used to play music for an hour. One day I asked him: why should I listen to this alien music? He said: What appeals to me is that in a symphony there are over 100 people, each of whom is a maestro, but they come together as a team to play according to a script under this conductor and produce something divine. They prove that one plus one can be more than two. Its a great example of teamwork. Those days our role models were our teachers, both in school and university. They taught us to be inquisitive and articulate. You have to imagine a lower middle class family in a district headquarters in the 60s. My father used to tell us about the importance of putting public good before private good; mother would talk about sacrifice and truth. Beyond the basic values of life they didnt discuss too much about our careers. His uncle was a civil servant and his father was very keen that he take that up as a career but somehow that didnt appeal to him. He took a degree in engineering at a local college and hoped to become a junior engineer in a hydroelectric power plant, Nehrus temples of modern India. But instead he got his Masters at ITT Kanpur, where We were introduced to computers that wonder machine and I was hooked. Although offered higher paying jobs, he took a job in Ahmedabad because Prof. Krishnayya, who worked at a the Indian Institute of Management, told him of this great, modern mini-computer that he was going to install and that it would be the third business school in the world to install a time-sharing system after Harvard and Stanford. He also said that the atmosphere was collegial, wed work 20 hours a day and learn a lot. Taking this job at a salary of Rs 800 a month was the best decision of my life.

EXTRAVERSION Murthy is very friendly and socialite person.He always raises his voice for social issues in India as election, poverty, unemployment etc. He is also a part of various education institutes of India as well as of foreign countries. AGREEABLENESS Undoubtedly Murthy is a person who is good natured and cooperative because he manages to make Infosys a successful company through the proper understanding with other founders of Infosys. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS - Narayana Murthy is a person who already set his targets, goals and worked with other in organized and accurate way to get his destination. He is honest because he handles to work in a group for a long time without any controversy.

EMOTIONAL STABILITY He is emotionally very stable person

and do not show his emotions to others.

OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE Narayana Murthy is a person who

is eager to increase his knowledge as we can understand that in 1970s computer field was new and not a secure one but he choose that because of his tendency to amplify the understanding

 According

to the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator model Narayan Murthy can be classified into the type ENFP

This

type refers to: EXTRAVERT INTUTION FEELING PERCEIVING

These

notations are further explained ahead along with justifications.

EXTRAVERT:

Extraverts are energetic and social people. As seen in the case study, Narayan Murthy is quite an extravert. As mentioned Murthy was strongly influenced by socialism. He even says "I'm a capitalist in mind, a socialist at heart. He raises his voice in social issues such as poverty, unemployment, etc. He is also the Chairman of the Governing board of Public Health Foundation of India. He even serves as an independent director on the corporate boards of HSBC, ICICI, NDTV, etc. He is also a part of various education institutes of India as well as of foreign countries. He is a member of the Advisory Boards and Councils of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Corporate Governance initiative at the Harvard Business School, the Indian School of Business, Cornell University committee on academic affairs, the committee on alumni affairs and development at Yale University, and the University of Tokyos President's Council. He is a member of the Board of Directors of INSEAD, the Board of Overseers at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Singapore Management University, Asian Institute of Management (AIM), the Board of Members of School of Management at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Asia Business Council and Business Advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management and International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. He also serves on the Asia Pacific Advisory Board of British Telecommunications. In 2005 he co-chaired the World Economic Forum in Davos. Hence Narayan Murthy is high on extraversion.

 INTUTION:

Narayan Murthy works on intuition more than sensing. As seen in the case study, Narayan Murthy set up Infosys with 6 other friends. Having no source of money, he used rs 10000 saved up by his wife sudha murthy. Ever since he grabbed every opportunity that came his way for example liberalization in 1991 and has never looked back. He even serves the society. Infosys has 400 employees who are dollar millionaires. He even channels Rs 50 million into charity every year.
FEELING:

People that come under the feeling category of MBTI make decisions based on strong value systems, heart, subjective, mercy, compliment, harmony, empathy and compassion and Narayan Murthy shows all of the above traits. He is active in charity work and treats his employees with compassion. He tries to maintain a harmonious atmosphere at work, and is full of empathy and feels for his employees and society.

 PERCEIVING:

A perceiving person tends to flow with new trends and adapt to given situations, they are also flexible by nature. Narayan Murthy also is a very flexible person. He is simple by nature and does not make a fuss about anything. He uses the company bus on Saturdays as his it is his drivers weekly leave. He rejected Z category security offered by the local government as he did not want to create any kind of trouble for his neighbours and other civilians. He inculcates new technologies and working manners that are required with changing times. He lets life come to him however it is supposed to and adapts to it.