PERSONALITY AND ITS TRAITS

Akhil Sakarwal

Deepak Gupta

Sovan Kundu

Rishab Bansal

Sunit Sharma

Kaustubh K

What Is Personality?Personality

The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others, measurable traits a person exhibits

Personality Traits

Enduring characteristics that describe an individual’s behavior

Personality

Determinants• Heredity

• Environment

• Situation

Personality

Determinants• Heredity

• Environment

• Situation

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

Personality Types• Extroverted vs. Introverted (E or I)

• Sensing vs. Intuitive (S or N)

• Thinking vs. Feeling (T or F)

• Judging vs. Perceiving (P or J)

Score is a combination of all four (e.g., ENTJ)

Personality Types• Extroverted vs. Introverted (E or I)

• Sensing vs. Intuitive (S or N)

• Thinking vs. Feeling (T or F)

• Judging vs. Perceiving (P or J)

Score is a combination of all four (e.g., ENTJ)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into different personality types

Personality Theories

Trait Theory - understand individuals by breaking down behavior patterns into observable traits

Psychodynamic Theory - emphasizes the unconscious determinants of behavior

Humanistic Theory - emphasizes individual growth and improvement

Integrative Approach - describes personality as a composite of an individual’s psychological processes

Personality Characteristics in Organizations

Locus of ControlInternal External

I control what happens to me!

People and circumstances

control my fate!

Personality Characteristics in Organizations

Positive Effect - an individual’s tendency to accentuate the positive aspects of oneself, other people, and the world in general

Negative Effect - an individual’s tendency to accentuate the negative aspects of oneself, other people, and the world in general

Big 5 Personality traits

• Arvind Kejriwal : Extraversion :

Assertive , Sociable

• Agreeableness : Cooperative , Warm , agreeable

• Amitabh bachchan :Conscientiousness :

Hardworking, organized, dependable

• MS Dhoni : Emotional Stability :

Calm , self confident , cool.

• Ratan Tata :Openness to experience :

Creative , Curious , Cultured

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me”

Identify the famous person who said this ?

Identify the personality trait ?

Openness to experience

He has won the prestigious Arjuna award in 1998. He has named as “Wisden Cricketer of the Year”

Identify the famous person ?

Identify his personality trait ?

Conscientiousness

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to a lady on her 103rd birth anniversary last month?

Identify the famous person ?

Identify her personality trait ?

Agreeableness

Identify the famous person ?

Identify her personality trait ?

“If you want to feel good you have to go out and do some good”

Extraversion

5 Times World Champion in Boxing?

Identify the famous person ?

Identify her personality trait ?

Emotional Stability

Viru Sahastrabuddhe

Type ‘A’ Personality

Impatient and hyperactive

Workaholics

Highly competitive and ambitious

Always in a hurry

Proactive and obsessed with time management

Easily annoyed or upset

Sense of being under constant time pressure

Never satisfied

Try to do multiple things at a time

Constant apprehension of future disaster

Prone to outburst of rage or temper tantrums

Actively try to control situation at hand – born leaders

Achievement oriented

Prone to high risk of heart diseases

Sharad Pawar

Personality type ‘B’

Relaxed

Non competitive and less driven

Easy going

Patient

Optimistic

Have a sense of humour

At piece with their environment and themselves

Able to express their emotions appropriately

Pleasant demeanor

Temporary fearlessness in face of trauma

Less susceptible to disease

Though not driven over achievers , often successful in career

Good decision maker

Not prone to outburst of rage or anger

Job Fit

Job fit is a concept that explains whether the intersection between an employee's strengths, needs and experience, and the requirements of a particular job and work environment - match - or not. 

Job fit assessments help you make better hiring decisions  by helping you understand the core characteristics of employees.

 

Concept

Matching the job requirements with personality characterstics.

Identifies Job satisfaction, motivation & performance

Provides detailed analysis of tasks & responsibilities

Factors

Cultural fit

Experience

Values & Beliefs

Job Content

Education & Training

Benefits

Retention & Turnover

Brain Drain

Attracting talent

Recruiting & Staffing

Performance

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