King Abdul Aziz University

Faculty of Economic and Administration

Assignment on Personality
Know yourself

Student name: Samar Adeeb Faidah

Student ID: 1613101

Course title: Organizational Behavior (BUS-320)

Section: CAR
B. Define personality:

Personality is defined as the characteristic set of behaviors, patterns of thinking,

emotional qualities that evolve from biological and environmental factors and
growth of human physiological system which distinguish a person from others and
makes us unique individuals. Also, embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is
most clearly expressed in interactions with other people. Personality helps you to
survive and deal with the daily challenges surrounding you with strength or
weakness depending on your personality. Personality arises from within the
individual. Otherwise, attitudes passed by a person affect the formation of an
individual's personality. Our personalities are thought to be long term, stable

C. Determinants of personality:

 Environmental Factors:

The environment in which a person lives has a significant impact on his personality.
And culture determines an individual's standards, perceptions, attitudes and values.
Environmental factors include a person's neighbor hood, workplace, university and
school. Also the social circle which involves parents, friends, bosses. There are two
type of processes:

Socialization process defined as the family and social group's contribution to culture
integration. The contact with the mother begins at the beginning and the other
segment of the family and the social group plays an important role in building an
individual personality.

Identification process occurs when someone tries to identify with someone in the
family who feels supreme. A child in the family usually tries to react like his mom or
dad.

 Biological Factors:

Heredity factors as determinants and personality factors, play a major role in the
impact. These factors not only affect a person's physical characteristics. They also
influence the level of mentality, gender, various transmitted diseases, attention,
humor and vitality. Twin siblings have many characteristics in common as an
example of how heredity factors work.

Physical factors your personality is also defined by many physical factors. These
physical factors include a person's physical structure such as weight, height, body,
beauty, sex, color, language. The personality of a person can change over time. One
of the main reasons for this is physical factors. Most of the physical structure
changes from time to time and the personality changes as well. Many physical
characteristics are changed with practice, cosmetics and operation and therefore the
personality of the human being improves and evolves.

D. Specify your own personality based on the web test:

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging ( ISTJ ) .

E. Explain your personality:

 Introverted Sensing

Time is essential in Si and it's characterized by high accuracy, also have a sense of
propriety and have something of an oxymoron.

 Extraverted Thinking

Characterized by social character and silence is of great value in some situations, also
keeping and following the same habits and behaviors for long time ones that
distinguishes them.

 Introverted Feeling

Refrains from expressing feelings verbally, it can be deduced nonverbally through a

smile or contact with the eyes.

 Extraverted intuition

Have tendency to compiling, linking, reasoning and analyzing events. Belief that fear
of something or a certain attribute will makes it real or happen.

F. Mention appropriate careers option for you:

o Project managers.
o Engineers.
o Mid-rank manager.
o Department head.
o Auditors.
o Lawyers.
o Surgeons.
o Implementation specialist.