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BEHAVIOR
issues.
What is Personality?
Personality Traits
Personality
PersonalityDeterminants
Determinants
••Heredity
Heredity
••Environment
Environment
••Situation
Situation
The Myers-Briggs Type
~
Indicator
Personality
PersonalityTypes
Types
• •Extroverted
ExtrovertedororIntroverted
Introverted(E (EororI)I)
• •Sensing
SensingororIntuitive
Intuitive(S
(SororN)
N)
• •Thinking
ThinkingororFeeling
Feeling(T
(TororF)
F)
• •Perceiving
PerceivingororJudging
Judging(P(PororJ)J)
Sixteen
Primary
Traits
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Interesting
but
The Big Five
Model
I decided YES
Major Personality Attributes
Influencing OB
Locus of control
Machiavellianism
Self-esteem
Self-monitoring
Type A personality
Locus of Control
Machiavellianism
Conditions
ConditionsFavoring
FavoringHigh
HighMachs
Machs
••Direct
Directinteraction
interaction
••Minimal
Minimalrules
rulesand
andregulations
regulations
••Distracting
Distractingemotions
emotions
Self-Esteem and Self-
Monitoring
Risk-Taking
High Risk-taking Managers
Make quicker decisions.
Use less information to make decisions.
Operate in smaller and more entrepreneurial
organizations.
Low Risk-taking Managers
Are slower to make decisions.
Require more information before making decisions.
Exist in larger organizations with stable environments.
Risk Propensity
Aligning managers’ risk-taking propensity to job
requirements should be beneficial to organizations.
Personality Types
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Emotions- Why Emotions
Were Ignored in OB
The “myth of rationality”
Organizations are not emotion-free.
Emotions of any kind are disruptive to
organizations.
Original OB focus was solely on the effects of
strong negative emotions that interfered with
individual and organizational efficiency.
What Are Emotions?
Affect
A broad range of emotions that
people experience.
Emotions Moods
Intense feelings that are Feelings that tend to be
directed at someone or less intense than emotions
something. and that lack a contextual
stimulus.
Felt versus Displayed
Emotions
Emotion Dimensions
Variety of emotions
Positive
Negative
Intensity of emotions
Personality
Job Requirements
Frequency and duration of emotions
How often emotions are exhibited.
How long emotions are displayed.
Facial Expressions Convey
Emotions
Emotion Continuum
The closer any two emotions are to each
other on the continuum, the more likely
people are to confuse them.
Gender and Emotions
Women
Can show greater emotional expression.
Experience emotions more intensely.
Display emotions more frequently.
Are more comfortable in expressing emotions.
Are better at reading others’ emotions.
Men
Believe that displaying emotions is
inconsistent with the male image.
Are innately less able to read and to identify
with others’ emotions.
Have less need to seek social approval by
showing positive emotions.
External Constraints on
Emotions
Organizational Cultural
Influences Influences
Individual
Individual
Emotions
Emotions
OB Applications of
Understanding Emotions
Ability and Selection
Emotions affect employee effectiveness.
Decision Making
Emotions are an important part of the
decision-making process in organizations.
Motivation
Emotional commitment to work and high
motivation are strongly linked.
Leadership
Emotions are important to acceptance of
messages from organizational leaders.
OB Applications of
Understanding Emotions
Interpersonal Conflict
Conflict in the workplace and individual
emotions are strongly intertwined.
Deviant Workplace Behaviors
Negative emotions can lead to employee
deviance in the form of actions that
violate established norms and threaten
the organization and its members.
Productivity failures
Property theft and destruction
Political actions
Personal aggression
Ability and Selection
Emotional
EmotionalIntelligence
Intelligence(EI)
(EI)
Self-awareness
Self-awareness
Self-management
Self-management
Self-motivation
Self-motivation
Empathy
Empathy
Social
Social skills
skills
Research
ResearchFindings
Findings
Compare your best High
High EI
EI scores,
scores, not
not high
high
manager with your IQ
IQ scores,
scores, characterize
characterize
worst one. high
high performers.
performers.
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Personality Types
Achieving Personality-Job Fit
Personality
PersonalityTypes
Types
••Realistic
Realistic
••Investigative
Investigative
••Social
Social
••Conventional
Conventional
••Enterprising
Enterprising
••Artistic
Artistic
Holland’s
Typology of
Personality
and
Congruent
Occupations
among
Occupati
onal
Personali
ty Types
What Are Emotions? (cont’d)