This document discusses personality and different models for understanding personality. It defines personality as the combination of characteristics that form an individual's distinctive character, including traits, motives, emotions, values and attitudes. Personality is determined by both heredity and environment/situation. Common models for assessing personality mentioned include Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five model, and Dark Triad. Other relevant personality attributes in organizational behavior are also briefly outlined.
This document discusses personality and different models for understanding personality. It defines personality as the combination of characteristics that form an individual's distinctive character, including traits, motives, emotions, values and attitudes. Personality is determined by both heredity and environment/situation. Common models for assessing personality mentioned include Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five model, and Dark Triad. Other relevant personality attributes in organizational behavior are also briefly outlined.
This document discusses personality and different models for understanding personality. It defines personality as the combination of characteristics that form an individual's distinctive character, including traits, motives, emotions, values and attitudes. Personality is determined by both heredity and environment/situation. Common models for assessing personality mentioned include Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five model, and Dark Triad. Other relevant personality attributes in organizational behavior are also briefly outlined.
This document discusses personality and different models for understanding personality. It defines personality as the combination of characteristics that form an individual's distinctive character, including traits, motives, emotions, values and attitudes. Personality is determined by both heredity and environment/situation. Common models for assessing personality mentioned include Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Big Five model, and Dark Triad. Other relevant personality attributes in organizational behavior are also briefly outlined.
Personality The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character
Measurable trait that a person exhibits
Combination of motives, emotions,
values, interests, attitudes
Accessing someone's personality?
Determinants of Personality
Heredity/ Environment Situation Physiological
Determinants in a class v/s a
culture, norms of
family & social party physical differences, groups, other on field/court v/s IQ,potential influences off field/court E Extraversion / S Sensing/ I Introversion N Intuition
INTJ - Visionaries Myers Briggs
ESTJ - Organizers ENTP - Entrepreneurs Type Indicator
T Thinking / J Judging/ F Feeling P Perceiving
The Big Five Models
of Personality
Openness- tendency to experience positive
1. emotional state and feel good about oneself
Conscientiousness- high levels of
2. thoughtfulness, good impulse control, and goal-directed behaviors
Extraversion-sociability, talkativeness, 3. assertiveness, and high amounts of emotional expressiveness
4. Agreeableness-includes attributes such as
trust, kindness, affection, coorporative
Neuroticism-characterized by sadness, 5. moodiness, and emotional instability The Dark Triad The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, Narcissism, Psychopathy.
High scores in these traits
have been found to statistically increase a person's likelihood to commit crimes, cause social distress, and create severe problems for organizations, especially if they are in leadership positions Other Personality Attributes Relevant to OB Core Self-evaluation: Bottom line conclusions individuals have about their capabilities, competence and worth as a person.
Self Monitoring: A personality trait that measures an individual's ability to adjust their behavior to external, situational factors.
Proactive Personality: People who identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs. Different people bring out different aspects of one's personality.
