Personality characteristics, personality traits,

1. Presented by
Tarak
Raghavendra
Javeedh
Sandhya
Vikram
Sourabh
Nikhil
Shivender
Susovan
Sudip
Kewal Kumar

2.  Behavior always involves a complex interaction of
the person and the situation. Events in the
surrounding environment strongly influence the
way people behave at any particular time; yet
people always bring something of themselves to the
situation. This “something”, which represents unique
qualities of the individual, is personality.
 No single definition of personality is accepted
universally.

3. A well-known personality theorist, Salvatore
Maddi, proposed the definition personality.
Personality is a stable set of characteristics and
tendencies that determine those commnalities
and differences in the psychological behavior of
people that have continuity in time and that may
not be easily understood as the sole result of the
social and biological pressures of the moment.

4.  The two primary sources shape personality
differences ;
 1. Hereditary
 2. Environment or Nature
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HEREDITY ENVIRONMENT

5. The genetic transmission of characteristics or traits from parent
to offspring that determine individual characteristic is known as
Heredity.
Observe some expressions
“He is just like her mother”,
“She gets those irritating qualities from your side of family”,
Features of Heredity
 Some studies of twins suggested that as much as 50 to 55 percent
of personality traits may be inherited.
 Further inherited personality traits seem to explain about 50
percent of variance in occupation.

6. The external circumstances or conditions especially
those in which people live or work is nothing but
Environment.
Aspects of environment
 Culture
 Family
 Group membership
 Life experience

7. 1.CULTURE
 The term culture refers to thedistinctive ways that
different human populations or societies organize
their lives.
 It defines how the different roles in that society are to
be performed.
2.FAMILY
 The primary vehicle for socializing an individual into
a particular culture is the person’s immediate family.
 The family’s situation also is an important source of
personality differences.

8.  People participate in various groups during their lives.
 Understanding someone’s personality requires
understanding the groups to which that person belongs or
has belonged in the past.
4.LIFE EXPERIENCE
 Each person’s life is unique in terms of specific events and
experiences , which can serveas important determinants of
personality.
 Complex series of events and interactions with other
people helps shape the adult’s level of self-esteem.

9.  The number and variety of specific personality traits or
dimensions are Bewildering.
 Five main factors summarize personality structure.
 Individual’s adjustment
 Sociability
 Conscientiousness
 Agreeableness
 Intellectual openness

10.  People must be responsible,dependable,achievable
and persistant.
 Examination of personality traits are important for
understanding aspects of observational behaviour.
 personality plays a crucial role in the field of
observational behaviour.

11.  Self esteem is the result of an individuals continuing
evolution of self.
 Self esteem affects behaviour in organisation.
 Self esteem is related to numerous social and work
behaviour employees with low self esteem are more
easily influenced.

12. Locus of control refers to “one’s belief that what happens
is either within one’s control or Beyond one’s control”.
 Those who have Internal locus of control believe that
they are masters of their own fate.
 On the contrary,those who have external locus of
control see themselves as pawns of fate and believe
that what happens to them in their lives is due to luck
or factors beyond their control.

13. Introvert Personalities:
 Persons with Introvert orientation are primarily
oriented to the subjective world.
 Such people look inward and experience and process
their thoughts and ideals within themselves.
 They also avoid social contacts and initiating
interaction with other groupmates,withdrawn,quiet
and enjoy solitude.
 People with introvert personality are found more
inclined to excel at tasks that require thought and
analytical skill.

14.  Extroverts are just contrary to introverts.
 Extroverts are
friendly,sociable,lively,gregarious,aggressive and
expressing their feelings and ideas openly.
 Accordingly, they are more suitable and successful for
the positions that require considerable interaction
with others.

15.  Refers to the rigidity of a persons beliefs.
 There are two types of rigidity
 High dogmatic & close dogmatic.
 High dogmatic is individual is close minded
 Low dogmatic persons is open minded
 In this case, it depends more on authority figures in the
organization for guidance & direction.
Authoritarianism
 It is closely related to dogmatism but is narrower in scope.
The events of world war 2 has resulted in the research of
authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is the state of being
authoritarian, have the right to control other people action.

16.  Specific relationship.
 Control employee personality.
 Understand employee personality.
 Knowledge.

17. Professor Chris Argyris of Harvard identified distinct
stages in one’s personality.
 From passivity to activity.
 From dependence to independence.
 From selective behaviour to diverse behaviour.
 From shallow interest to deep interest.
 From short time perspective to long time perspective.
 From subordinate position to superordinate position.
 From lack of self awareness to self awareness and
control.

18.  Personality is the totality of an individuals interaction
with its sub-systems like environment and situation.
Individual's external appearance and traits, their inner
awareness of self and the person-situation interaction
determine their personalities.An individual’s
personality is influenced and influences his/her
behaviour in organizations.