Personality human resources PPT for MBA students

Personality human resource oot

1. PERSONALITY
Bhumija Chouhan

2. The study of personality and its development provides
an opportunity to consider the individual as a unique
entity
Personality of an individual is unique and behavior is
influenced by personal and environmental factors.
Basic understanding of human personality is vital for the
study and analysis of OB.
Because personality embraces all the unique traits and
patterns of adjustment of the individual in his relationship
with others and his environment.

3. Personality is thus traditionally referred to how people
influence others through their external appearances. But
for an academician personality includes (1) External
appearance and behavior (2) the inner awareness of self
as a permanent organizing force (3) the particular
organization of measurable traits, both inner and outer.
Personality is the unique and relatively stable patterns of
behavior, thoughts and emotions shown by individuals.
Fred Luthans defines the term personality as “how
people affect others and how the understand and view
themselves as well as their pattern of inner and outer
measurable traits and the personal situation
intervention.”

4. Definition
According to Robbins, “personality is the sum total of ways
in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others.”
According to Duch personality includes: (1) External
appearance and behavior or social stimulus value (2) Inner
awareness of self as a permanent organizing force (3) the
particular pattern or organization of measurable traits both
inner and outer.
Thus personality denotes for the methods of affecting
others, reacting to others, action and interacting with others.
These methods are chosen by individuals based on several
factors, important one among these are their traits.

5. Personality Traits
Personality traits are enduring characteristics that
describe an individual’s behavior.
According to Luthans “the way people affect others
depends on their personality traits.“ Personality traits
include height, weight, facial features, color dimension
etc.
Popular characteristic include shy, aggressive, lazy,
ambitions, loyal and timid. These characteristics when
they are enlisted in a large no of quotations called
Personality traits.

6. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)
One of the most widely used personality frameworks is
called the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. It is essentially a
100-question personality test that asks people how they
usually feel or act in a particular situation.
MBIT is a personality test that taps four characteristics
and classifies people 1 of 16 personality types. This is
one of the most widely used personality tests.

7. Cont.Cont.
On the basis of the answers which individuals give in the test,
personality can be classified as:
(i) Extroverts or Introverts (E or I)
(ii) Sensitive or Intuitive (S or N)
(iii) Thinking or Feeling (T or F)
(iv) Perceiving or Judging (P or J)

8. Cont.Cont.
These classifications can be combined into 16
personality types shown below.
1. Reserved vs. Outgoing
2. Less intelligent vs. More intelligent
3. Affected by feeling vs. Emotionally stable
4. Submissive vs. Dominant
5. Serious vs. Happy go lucky
6. Expedient vs. Conscientious
7. Timid vs. Venturesome
8. Tough-minded vs. Sensitive

9. Cont.Cont.
9.Trusting vs. Suspicious
10. Practical vs. Imaginative
11. Forthright vs. Shrewd
12. Self assured vs. Apprehensive
13. Conservative vs. Experimenting
14. Group dependent vs. Self-sufficient
15. Uncontrolled vs. Controlled
16. Relaxed vs. Tense

10. Cont.Cont.
(i) INTJS → Visionaries
Visionaries are people having original minds and great
drive for their own ideas and purpose. Their
characteristics are that they are skeptical, critical,
independent, determined and often stubborn.
(ii) ESTJS → Organizers
Organizers are people with realistic, logical, analytical
and decisive minds. These people are naturally the
business class people who have talent to do business.
They have the ability to organize and run activities.

11. The Big Five Model
(iii) ENTP→ Conceptualizers
They are innovative, individualistic, versatile and
attracted to enterprencuacial ideas. These people tend to
be resourceful in solving challenging problems but may
neglect routine assignments.
The Big Five Model
MBTI may lack valid supporting evidence but that cannot
be said for the five-factor model of personality, which is
called as “Big Five”.

12. Cont.Cont.
The major personality traits which influence the job
behavior and job performance are denoted as Big-five
personality traits.
These five factors encompass most of the significant
variation in human personality. These factors are:
(1) Extroversion
Extroversion represents a person’s interest in the external
world. This dimension captures one’s comfort level with
relationships. When we talk about external world then
individuals’ interest can be exhibited through sociability,
talkativeness/gregariousness and assertiveness. Extroverts
are assertive, talkative, sociable, gregarious people and
introverts are vice versa i.e. reserved, timid and quiet.

13. Cont.Cont.
(2) Agreeableness
Agreeableness refers to an individual’s propensity to
defer to others. Agreeable people are cooperative, warm
and trusting, on the other hand, less agreeable are cold,
disagreeable and antagonistic. Individuals with
agreeable traits think from the viewpoint of their
employees or clients, accept the proposals, needs or
requests of the employees. Employees’ job behaviour
and job performance is influenced with such a trait are
good natured, cooperative and trusting.

14. Cont.Cont.
(3) Conscientiousness
It represents a measure of reliability Conscientiousness refers
to governing or regulating the work activity by conscientinisness
are reliable, organized, dependable and persistent. The
conscientiousness trait of the executive changes the job
behavior and enhances the job performance of the
subordinates. The conscientiousness trait includes
responsibility dependability, persistency and achievement-
oriented.
(4) Emotional Stability
This represents a person’s ability to withstand stress, some
executives absorb the actions, reactions, vairous feelings,
attitudes, outcome of activities etc. and maintain stability of
their emotions. Consequently they tend to be calm, self
confident and secure. People with less emotional stability tend
to be nervous, anxious, depressed and insecure.

15. Cont.Cont.
(5) Openness to Experience
It refers to an individual’s range of interest and
fascination with novelty. Executives are expected to be
open to new job experience, learn, absorb and integrate
them with their previous experience and knowledge. This
trait includes imaginative, artistically sensitive,
intellectual, creative and curious people.

16. Determinants of Personality
Personality represents a process of change and it relates to
the psychological growth and development of individuals.
It becomes important to know the factors that cause a
given personality to change or develop.
Scott and Mitchell various determinants of personality into
four factors:
Biological factors
Family and Social factors
Cultural factors
Situational factors.

17. Determinates of PersonalityDeterminates of Personality

18. A.Biological Factors
The general biological characteristics of human biological system
influence the way in which human being tends to sense external
event data interpret and respond to them.
Biological factors can be divided into 3 major heads –
(i) Heredity,
(ii) Brain and
(iii) Physical strature

19. B. Family and Social Factors
The development of the individual proceeds under the
influence of many socializing forces and agencies from
nuclear family to more distant and enough grouping.
The infant acquires those behavior patterns that are
customary and acceptable to the standard of the family
and the community where the family lives.
The status of the family in the society has great influence
in individuals perception about self, others, work, money
etc.
Family and social factors have their impact on
personality through socialization and identification
processes.

20. C. Cultural Factors
Culture is traditionally considered as the major
determinant of an individual’s personality. The culture
largely determines what a person is and what a person
will learn.
The culture within a person is brought up, is very
important determinant of behavior of person. Most of the
Indians are humble, obedient, tolerant, non-violent, non-
materialistic, noncompetitive and tend to sacrifice.
Culture is the complex of beliefs, values, norms, opinions
and attitudes which are stored by individuals of
contemporary period and transmitted from generation to
generation.

21. Culture is learnt from the family members, friends, peers,
social groups, teachers etc.
Culture shapes the personality of an individual in addition
to heredity. Stephen P. Robbin views that heredity sets
are the parameters or outer limits while culture makes
the individual to adjust himself/herself to the demands
and requirements of the environment.

22. D. Situational Factors
An individual’s personality may change in different
situations. The demands of different situations may call
for different outputs of one’s personality.
According to Milgram a situation exerts an important
pressure on the individual. It exercises constraints and
may provide push. In certain circumstances it is not so
much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation
in which he placed that determines his actions.

23. Application of Personality in
Organisation
Personality helps managers in managing organizations
effectively. Personality can be applied in the area of
matching jobs and individuals, designing motivation
systems, designing control system.
(1)Matching Jobs and Individuals
(2)Designing Motivation System
(3)Designing Control System