Personality_and_Emotions Sabit & Papu.ppt

Myers- Briggs Type Indicator
Big 5
Personality Assessment Tests
Psychological Profile
Emotional Intelligence
Attitude
Mindset
A fresher out of college is perplexed by the results of the recruitment and selection process. It is hard to figure why some excellent looking candidates get rejected and the ordinary ones sail through effortlessly.
This presentation will help the learner in understanding the logic behind psychometric tests. Psychology as a subject is stll struggling to be accepted as Sciencs but its impact in understanding human behaviour is matchless.
Links to two psychometric tests are embedded in presentation and also some explanations are made available to self assess your performance scores in these tests.
Good luck.

1. Personality and Emotions
Individual Behavior
Prepared By
Sabit Mal
Pappu Banerjee

2. Know Yourself
1.Do you prefer working sequentially to
working randomly?
2.Do you focus far more on possibilities
than present reality?
3.Do you think rules and regulations are
necessary?
4.Do you reveal much about yourself to
others?
5.Do you prefer working on the theoretical
side of a project than the practical side?

3. Personality
•It doesn’t mean that a person has charm, a
positive attitude toward life and a smiling
face!
•According to psychology, it is a dynamic
concept describing the growth and
development of a person’s whole
psychological system
•Gordon Allport said, “personality is the
dynamic organisation within the individual
of those psychological systems that
determine his/her unique adjustments to
his environment”

4. Personality Determinants
•Heredity
•Environment
•Situation
What are the popular
characteristics that describes an
individual’s behavior?

5. Personality Traits
•Those characteristics, when they are
exhibited in a large number of situations,
are called Personality Traits
•Number of early efforts to identify the
primary traits that govern behavior, but
two most used from past 20 years are:
–The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
–The Big-Five Model

6. MBTI
•Extroverted vs. Introverted
–Extroverted individuals are outgoing, sociable and
assertive. Introverts are quiet and shy.
•Sensing vs. Intuitive
–Sensing types are practical and prefer routine and order.
They focus on details. Intuitive rely on unconscious
processes and look at the ‘big picture’.
•Thinking vs. Feeling
–Thinking types use reason and logic to handle problems.
Feeling types rely on their personal values and emotions.
•Judging vs. Perceiving
–Judging types want control, and prefer their world to be
ordered and structured. Perceiving types and flexible and
spontaneous.

7. The Big-Five Model
1.Extroversion
– High : gregarious, assertive and sociable. Low: reserved, timid and quiet.
– Captures one’s comfort level with relationships.
2.Agreeableness
– High: cooperative, warm and trusting. Low: cold, disagreeable and antagonistic.
– Individual’s propensity to defer to others.
3.Conscientiousness
– High : responsible, organized, dependable and persistent. Low : easily
distracted, disorganised and unreliable
– Measure of reliability.
4.Emotional Stability
– High: calm, self confident and secure. Low: nervous, anxious, depressed and
insecure
– Taps a person’s ability to withstand stress.
5.Openness to experience
– High: creative, curious and artistically sensitive. Low: conventional
– One’s range of interests and fascination with novelty.

8. Want to know your own
personality type?
•The Big-Five Personality Test
http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
•MBTI
http://sminds.com/mbti/
Go to these websites, and find out
your scores/personality type

9. MBTI Test Pages

10. MBTI Test Pages

11. MBTI Test Pages

12. MBTI Test Pages

13. The Big Five Test Pages

18. MBTI-16 Personality Types

19. ISTJ
Quiet, serious, earn success by
thoroughness and dependability.
Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and
responsible. Decide logically what
should be done and work toward it
steadily, regardless of distractions.
Take pleasure in making everything
orderly and organized – their work,
their home, their life. Value traditions
and loyalty.

20. ISFJ
Quiet, friendly, responsible, and
conscientious. Committed and steady
in meeting their obligations.
Thorough, painstaking, and accurate.
Loyal, considerate, notice and
remember specifics about people
who are important to them,
concerned with how others feel.
Strive to create an orderly and
harmonious environment at work and
at home.

21. INFJ
Seek meaning and connection in ideas,
relationships, and material
possessions. Want to understand
what motivates people and are
insightful about others.
Conscientious and committed to their
firm values. Develop a clear vision
about how best to serve the common
good. Organized and decisive in
implementing their vision.

22. INTJ
Have original minds and great drive for
implementing their ideas and
achieving their goals. Quickly see
patterns in external events and
develop long-range explanatory
perspectives. When committed,
organize a job and carry it through.
Skeptical and independent, have high
standards of competence and
performance – for themselves and
others.

23. ISTP
Tolerant and flexible, quiet
observers until a problem appears,
then act quickly to find workable
solutions. Analyze what makes
things work and readily get
through large amounts of data to
isolate the core of practical
problems. Interested in cause and
effect, organize facts using logical
principles, value efficiency.

24. ISFP
Quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. Enjoy
the present moment, what’s going on
around them. Like to have their own
space and to work within their own time
frame. Loyal and committed to their
values and to people who are important
to them. Dislike disagreements and
conflicts, do not force their opinions or
values on others.

25. INFP
Idealistic, loyal to their values and to
people who are important to them.
Want an external life that is
congruent with their values. Curious,
quick to see possibilities, can be
catalysts for implementing ideas.
Seek to understand people and to
help them fulfill their potential.
Adaptable, flexible, and accepting
unless a value is threatened.

26. INTP
Seek to develop logical explanations
for everything that interests them.
Theoretical and abstract, interested
more in ideas than in social
interaction. Quiet, contained,
flexible, and adaptable. Have
unusual ability to focus in depth to
solve problems in their area of
interest. Skeptical, sometimes
critical, always analytical.

27. ESTP
Flexible and tolerant, they take a
pragmatic approach focused
immediate results. Theories and
conceptual explanations bore them
– they want to act energetically to
solve the problem. Focus on the
here-and-now, spontaneous, enjoy
each moment that they can be
active with others. Enjoy material
comforts and style. Learn best
through doing.

28. ESFP
Outgoing, friendly, and accepting.
Exuberant lovers of life, people, and
material comforts. Enjoy working
with others to make things happen.
Bring common sense and a realistic
approach to their work, and make
work fun. Flexible and spontaneous,
adapt readily to new people and
environments. Learn best by trying
a new skill with other people.

29. ENFP
Warmly enthusiastic and imaginative.
See life as full of possibilities. Make
connections between events and
information very quickly, and
confidently proceed based on the
patterns they see. Want a lot of
affirmation from others, and readily
give appreciation and support.
Spontaneous and flexible, often rely
on their ability to improvise and their
verbal fluency.

30. ENTP
Quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert,
and outspoken. Resourceful in
solving new and challenging
problems. Adept at generating
conceptual possibilities and then
analyzing them strategically. Good
at reading other people. Bored by
routine, will seldom do the same
thing the same way, apt to turn to
one new interest after another.

31. ESTJ
Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact.
Decisive, quickly move to implement
decisions. Organize projects and
people to get things done, focus on
getting results in the most efficient
way possible. Take care of routine
details. Have a clear set of logical
standards, systematically follow
them and want others to also.
Forceful in implementing their plans.

32. ESFJ
Warmhearted, conscientious, and
cooperative. Want harmony in their
environment, work with determination to
establish it. Like to work with others to
complete tasks accurately and on time.
Loyal, follow through even in small
matters. Notice what others need in their
day-by-day lives and try to provide it.
Want to be appreciated for who they are
and for what they contribute.

33. ENFJ
Warm, empathetic, responsive, and
responsible. Highly attuned to the
emotions, needs, and motivations of
others. Find potential in everyone,
want to help others fulfill their
potential. May act as catalysts for
individual and group growth. Loyal,
responsive to praise and criticism.
Sociable, facilitate others in a group,
and provide inspiring leadership.

34. ENTJ
Frank, decisive, assume leadership
readily. Quickly see illogical and
inefficient procedures and policies,
develop and implement
comprehensive systems to solve
organizational problems. Enjoy long-
term planning and goal setting.
Usually well informed, well read,
enjoy expanding their knowledge and
passing it on to others. Forceful in
presenting their ideas.

35. Some more tests
•16 Personality Factor (16PF)
•DISC (Drive, Influence, Steadiness,
Compliance)
•Thomas Profiling
•FIRO-B
•Belbin Team Role Profiling
•PAPI (PA Preference Inventory)

36. Major Personality Attributes
•Locus of Control
–A person’s perception of the source of his
or her fate is termed locus of control
–Internals and Externals
•Machiavellianism
–“if it works, use it”
–Pragmatic, maintains emotional distance
and believes that ends can justify means
•Self-Esteem
–People differ in the degree to which they
like or dislike themselves

37. Major Personality Attributes
•Self-monitoring
–Refers to an individual's ability to adjust
his or her behavior to external,
situational factors
•Risk Taking
•Proactive Personality
–Taking initiative to improve the current
circumstances or create new ones

38. Major Personality Attributes
•Type A Personality
–People who are excessively competitive
and always seems to be experiencing a
sense of time urgency
•Type B Personality
–Rarely harried by the desire to obtain a
wildly increasing number of things or
participate in an endless growing series
of events in an ever-decreasing amount of
time

39. Personality Fit
Type Personality
Characteristics
Congruent Occupations
Realistic: Prefers
physical activities that
require skill, strength and
coordination
Shy, genuine, persistent,
stable, conforming,
practical
Mechanic, drill press
operator, farmer
Investigative: Prefers
activities that involve
thinking, organizing and
understanding
Analytical, original,
curious, independent
Biologist, economist,
mathematician, news
reporter
Social: Prefers activities
that involve helping and
developing others
Sociable, friendly,
cooperative,
understanding
Social worker, teacher,
counselor
Conventional: Prefers
rule-regulation, orderly
and unambiguous
activities
Conforming, efficient,
practical, unimaginative,
inflexible
Accountant. Corporate
manager, bank teller, file
clerk

40. Emotions
•Affect
–is a generic term that covers a broad range
of feelings that people experience
•Emotions
–are intense feelings that are directed at
someone or something
–They are object-specific
•Moods
–are feelings that tend to be less intense than
emotions and that lack a contextual stimulus

41. Emotions
•Emotional Labor
•Felt versus Displayed Emotions
•Emotion Dimensions
–Variety
•Happiness, Surprise, Fear, Sadness, Anger,
Disgust
–Intensity
–Frequency and Duration

42. Affective Events Theory
Work Environment
• Characteristics of the job
• Job Demands
• Requirements for
emotional labor
Work Events
• Daily hassles
• Daily uplifts
Emotional Reactions
• Positive
• Negative
Job Satisfaction
Job Performance
Personal Dispositions
• Personality
• Mood