Individual characteristics

Human Behavior in Organization

1. Ronald Allan S. Salazar
RaizaD. Salazar
Prof. Abdullah R. Sirad
MP 203 -HUMAN BEHAVIOR in ORGANIZATION

2. PERSONALITY
•A relatively stable
set of
characteristics that
influences an
individual’s
behavior

3. PERSONALITY DETERMINANTS
•Heredity
•Environment
•Situation
•Culture
•Family and
Social
Background

4. VALUES
•represent basic convictions that
“a specific mode of conduct or
end-state of existence is
personally or socially preferable
to an opposite or con-verse
mode of conduct or end-state
of existence”

5. 2 Sets of VALUES
•Terminal Values
desirable end states
goals to achieve
•Instrumental Values
preferrablemodes of behavior
means of achieving terminal values

6. PERSONALITY TRAITS
•A personality traitis a personality
characteristic that endures (lasts) over time
and across different situations
•Trait theoriesof personality focus on
measuring, identifying and describing
individual differences in personality in terms
of traits
•Can be used to predict behaviour based on
traits

7. BIG 5 PERSONALITY TRAITS
•Extroversion
•Agreeableness
•Conscientiousnes
s
•Emotional Stability
•Openness To
Experience

8. an outgoing, overtly expressive person.an outgoing, overtly expressive person.an outgoing, overtly expressive person.an outgoing, overtly expressive person.
This trait includes characteristics such
as excitability, sociability, talkativeness,
assertiveness, and high amounts of
emotional expressiveness.

9. This personality dimension includes
attributes such as trust, altruism,
kindness, affection, and other
prosocialbehaviors.

10. Common features of this dimension include
high levels of thoughtfulness, with good
impulse control and goal-directed behaviours
Responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized.

11. individuals who score
low in neuroticism are
more emotionally stable
and less reactive to
stress. They tend to be
calm, even-tempered,
and less likely to feel
tense or rattled.
calm, self-confident, secure (positive) versus nervous, depressed, and insecure (negative).

12. This trait features characteristics such
as imagination and insight, and those
high in this trait also tend to have a
broad range of interests.
Imaginativeness, artistic, sensitivity, and intellectualism.

14. “Perception refers to the
interpretation of what we take in
through our senses. “ perception
is the process by which people
select, organize and interpret
information to form a meaningful
picture

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17. 17
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–beliefs about attitude object (pos & neg)
•
–emotions and feelings the object triggers
(pos & neg)
•
–reaction toward the object (pos & neg
actions)

18. THE
FILIPINO
CHARACTER

19. 1. Pakikisama
2. bayanihan(mutual assistance)
3. Hospitality
4. Filipino sensitivity (pakikiramdam)
5. pagtitiwala(trust)
6. gratitude or utang-na-loob

20. 1.genuine and deep love for the family
2.family is the source of personal
identity, emotional and material
support
3.persons main commitment and
responsibility

21. 1.Cheerful and fun –loving
2.Pleasant disposition
3.Sense of humor
4.Propensity for happiness that contribute not
only to the Filipino charm but to the
indomitability of the Filipino spirit

22. Filipinos have the capacity for hard work, given
proper conditions.
The desire to raise one's standard of living and to
possess the essentials of a decent life for one's
family, combined with the right opportunities
and incentives, stimulate the Filipino to work
very hard.

23. Filipinos have a great capacity to adjust, and to
adapt to circumstances and to the
surrounding environment, both physical and
social.
Unplanned or unanticipated events are never
overly disturbing or disorienting as the flexible
Filipino adjusts to whatever happens

24. Filipinos have a deep faith in God. Innate
religiosity enables us to comprehend and
genuinely accept reality in the context of
God's will and plan.
Thus, tragedy and bad fortune are accepted and
some optimism characterizes even the
poorest lives.

25. Filipinos have an ability to survive which is manifested in
our capacity for endurance despite difficult times, and in
our ability to get by on so little.
Filipinos make do with what is available in the
environment.
This survival instinct is related to the Filipinos who bravely
carry on through the harshest economic and social
circumstances.

26. Filipinos view the world in terms
of personal relationships and
the extent to which one is able
personally to relate to things
and people determines our
recognition of their existence
and the value.
Extreme Personalism

27. Excessive concern for the family
creates an in-group to which
the Filipino is fiercely loyal, to
the detriment of concern for
the larger community or the
common good.
Extreme Family Centeredness

28. casual and relaxed attitude towards time
and space which manifests itself in lack
of precision and compulsiveness, in
poor time management and in
procrastination.
impatient, unable to delay gratification or
reward resulting in the use of shortcuts,
skirting the rules (palusotsyndrome)
and foolhardiness.
Lack of Discipline

29. •generally passive and lacking in
initiative
•strong reliance on others
•high tolerance for inefficiency, poor
service, and even violations of one's
basic rights.
•too patient and long-suffering
(matiisin), too easily resigned to one's
fate.
Passivity and Lack of Initiative

30. Filipinos have a colonial mentality which
is made up of two dimensions:
•first is a lack of patriotism or an active
awareness, appreciation, and love of the
Philippines;
•second is an actual preference for
things foreign.
Colonial Mentality

31. Kanya-KanyaSyndrome
Filipinos have a selfish, self-
serving attitude that
generates a feeling of envy
and competitiveness towards
others, particularly one's
peers, who seem to have
gained some status or
prestige.

32. In the face of serious problems both
personal and social, there is lack of
analysis or reflection.
Joking about the most serious matters
prevents us from looking deeply into
the problem.
There is no felt need to validate our
hypotheses or explanations of things.
Lack of Self-analysis
and Self-reflection

33. GOALS AND
STRATEGIES FOR
CHANGE
Goals.Based on the strengths and weaknesses of the
Filipino, the following goals for change are proposed. The
Filipino should develop:
1. a sense of patriotismand national pride--a genuine love, appreciation,
and commitment to the Philippines and things Filipino;
2. a sense of the common good--the ability to look beyond selfish interests,
a sense of justice and a sense of outrage at its violation;

34. 3. a sense of integrityand accountability--an aversion toward
graft and corruption in society and an avoidance of the practice
in one's daily life;
4. the value and habits of disciplineand hard work; and
5. the value and habits of self-reflectionand analysis,the
internalization of spiritual values, and an emphasis upon
essencerather than on form.
GOALS AND
STRATEGIES FOR
CHANGE

35. The strengths and weaknesses of the Filipino have their
roots in many factors such as:
(1)the home environment,
(2)the social environment,
(3) culture and language,
(4) history,
(5) the educational system

36. (6) religion,
(7) the economic environment,
(8) the political environment,
(9) mass media, and
(10) leadership and role models

37. 1.Strategies must be multi-layered and multi-sectoral;
2.Strategies must emphasize change in the power-
holders as well as in the masa(people);
3.Strategies should be holistic, emphasizing
individual as well as systemic or structural change;
4.The change should involve a critical mass of
people;

38. 5.The goals should be divided into small pieces
for implementation;
6.Strategies must be connected to the daily life
of people; and
7.Strategies must be implemented by an act of
the will and involve self-sacrifice.

39. Thank You!