Introduction of Personality
The word Personality is derived from the Latin word – ‘personare’. It means to ‘speak through’ Personality refers to the internal and external traits of an individual which are relatively stable and which make the individual different from others.
Personality plays a key role in organizational behavior because the way that people think, feel, and behave affects many aspects of the workplace. People’s personalities influence their behavior in groups, their attitudes, and the way they make decision. In the workplace, personality also affects such things as motivation, leadership, performance and conflict.
The more that manager understands how personality in organizational behavior works, the better equipped they are to be effective and accomplish their goals. Traits such as openness, emotional stability, and agreeableness all predict that an individual will have less conflict, work better in teams, and have positive attitudes about his or her work. People with this type of personality should be placed in situations where they would be working with or leading others. Those who do not have these traits will have less motivation and be more negative where they are placed in these same situations.
Definition of Personality
Personality refers to a set of unique characteristics that makes an individual different from others. It is a pattern of stable states and characteristics of a person that influences his or her behavior towards goal achievement. When we tell of personality here, we don’t mean that a person has charm, a positive attitude toward life, a smiling face, nor is a finalist for happiest and friendliest in this year’s Miss India contest. Here personality means a dynamic concept describing the growth and development of a person’s whole psychological system. It is the sum of total ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others.
According to Gordon Allports, “Personality is everything that makes you an individual. It is the integration and interaction of your genetic in heritance, your experience, and your ways of relating the two”. He described two major ways to study personality. The homothetic and the idiographic, Homothetic psychology seeks general laws that can be applied to many different people, such as the principle of self actualization or the trait of extraversion. Idiographic psychology is an attempt to understand the unique aspects of a particular individual.
According to Hilgard, “Personality may be understood as the characteristic patterns of behavior and models of thinking that determines a person’s adjustment to the environment”.
According to Ruch, “Personality can be described as how he understands and reviews himself and his pattern of inner and outer measurable traits”.
Types Of Personality
1.Introvert personality
People with judging personality types like to follow a plan, make decisions and need only that what is essential for their work. People with perceptive personality adapt well to change, demand to know all above a job and at time may get over committed.
- Make a list of things to do.
- Schedule things in advance.
- Form and express judgments.
- Bring closure to an issue so that we can move forward.
We use perceiving personality when we postpone decisions to see what other options are available.
- Act spontaneously.
- Decide what to do as we do it, rather than forming a plan ahead of time.
- Do things at the last minute.
We all use both judging and perceive as we live our day to day life. The important distinction is which way of life do we lean towards, and are more comfortable with. The mixed couple (one perceiving and one judging) can complement each other very well, if they have developed themselves enough to be able to accept each other’s differences.
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