This document discusses personality theories including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Big Five personality traits. The MBTI proposes four dimensions of personality - energy style (extroversion vs introversion), thinking style (sensing vs intuition), values style (thinking vs feeling), and life style (judging vs perceiving). It also discusses the Big Five traits of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness and how they correlate with job performance.

1. M.Venkata Sandeep – AH14071
P.Kalyan Srinivas – AH14085
Rohit Agrawal – AH14099
Sourabh Bhale – AH14113
U. Ravi Shankar – AH14127

2. PERSONALITY
is a way of describing
YOUR UNIQUE TRAITS
how you THINK
what you VALUE
how you like to LIVE

3. Personality Definition
 Personality means how people affect others and how
they understand and view themselves, as well as there
pattern of inner and outer measurable traits and the
person situation interaction. How people affect other
depends primarily on there external appearance and
traits.

4. Personality Determinants
 The Role of Heredity and The Brain
 Self Esteem
 Person-Situation Interaction
 The Socialization Process

5. Myers-Briggs type
indicator(MBTI)
 WHAT
 Designed to understand differences in how people will
perceive the world and make decisions.
 WHO
 MBTI is based on Carl Jung’s psychological type theories.
First test was published by Katharine Briggs and her daughter
Isabel Briggs
 WHEN
 Carl Jung's initial personality theories were first published in
1921.
 WHY
 For better understand of each other strength and weakness.

6.  This theory propose personality is made up of
4dimensional characteristics
 1] Energy style
EXTROVERTED INTROVERTED

7.  EXTROVERT are those which focus their attention and
energy on outward.
 They will be more
 Talkative
 outgoing
 enjoy works in groups
 use gestures while speaking
 dominate conservations

8.  INTROVERTS focus there attention and energy inward
 They will be
 Quite private
 High concentration
 Prefer to work alone
 Hate being put on spot
 Think before they speak

9.  THINKING STYLE
SENSING INTUITIVE

10.  SENSORS think about things in factual way.
 They will be
 Factual and detailed oriented
 Precise & practical
 Prefer regulations
 Follow directions

11.  INTUITIVE think about things in an abstract &
imaginative way.
 See the big picture
 Innovative & creative
 Work in bursts of energy
 Trust their gut feelings and hunches
 Prefer to learn new skills.

12.  VALUES STYLE
THINKING FEELER

13.  THINKERS make decisions based on impersonal
objective & logical criteria.
 Task oriented & objective
 Analytical
 Appear unemotional
 Motivated by achievement
 Decide with their head

14.  FEELERS make decisions based on their personal
values & how they feel about the choices
 People oriented
 Friendly
 Sensitive
 Decide with their hearts

15.  LIFE STYLE
JUDGING PERCIEIVING

16.  JUDGER prefer a structured & fairly predictable
environment to settle things.
 Structured & organized
 Punctual
 Plan ahead
 Work first
 Prefer schedules.

17.  PERCEIVERS prefer to experience the world ,so they
keep their options open and are comfortable adapting.
 Flexible
 Less aware of time
 Like freedom & spontaneity
 Play first ,work labour

18.  A personality test taps for characteristics & classifies
people in to 1-16 personality types

21. Big Five Personality Traits
• The MBTI has lack of valid supporting evidence .
• In the field of organizational behavior and human
resource management the “BIG FIVE” these traits
have held up as accounting for personality in many
analyses over the years and even across cultures.
• It is also called five factor model (FFM).

22. THE FIVE TRAITS

24. IMPACTS OF BIG -5 TRAITS
 In addition to providing a unifying personality
framework , research on “BIG FIVE” also has found
“important relationship between personality
dimensions and job performance”.
 Conscientiousness shows a positive correlation with
job performance - individuals who are dependable,
goal directed are higher performers ; viewed
negatively those who are careless ,irresponsible.
 High extraversion - associated with management
and sales success

25.  Agreeableness – handle customer relations and conflict .
 Openness – Tend to have job training proficiency and
make better decision in a training problem solving
simulation.
 High emotional stability - more effective in stressful
situations.
 The research shows that these five traits are more stable.
 Personality theorists would tend to agree that after about
30 years of age , the personality will change little over time.