Personality and Values Chap 4

PERSONALITY AND VALUES

CHAP # 4PRESENTED TO:

MR. SHAHKOOR

PRESENTED BY: MUHAMMAD UMAIR 081157

FAHAD NAEEM 08

WHT IS PERSONALITY ?

• A brief definition would be that personality is made up of the characteristic set of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. In addition to this, personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life.

Personlaity determinants.

• A person’s personlaity is the result of environmental and inheritance factors.But research in personality development better supports inheritence factor.

Personality

Determinants

• Heredity

• Environment

• Situation

Personality

Determinants

• Heredity

• Environment

• Situation

The Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorThe 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)

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)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

A personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types.

The Big Five Personality Modle.

• Extraversion (sometimes called Surgency).

Its broad dimension includes talkative, energetic, and assertive.

• Agreeableness

Includes traits like sympathetic, kind, and affectionate.

Count,

• Conscientiousness

Includes traits like organized, thorough, and planful.• Neuroticism (sometimes reversed and called Emotional Stability). Includes traits like tense, moody, and anxious .

• Openness to Experience (sometimes called Intellect or

Intellect/Imagination). Includes traits like having wide interests, and being

imaginative and insightful.

Modle Of How Big Five Traits Influence OB Criteria

• Big Five Trait Why It Is Relevant? What Dose It Effect? .• Emotional stability Less negative Thinking & fewer higher job & satisfaction

Negative emotion. Lower stress

• Extraversion better interpersonal skill higher job & satisfaction

Greater social dominance enhanced leadership

More emotionally express higher performance

• Openness increased learning higher performance

More creative enhanced leadership

More flexible more adoptable to change

• Agreeableness better liked higher performance

More complaint and confirming lower level of deviant behavior

• Conscientiousness greater effort & persistence higher performance

More drive and discipline enhanced leadership

Better organized planning greater longevity

Type Of Personality.

They are two type of personality

• ‘A’ type personality

• ‘B’ type personality

‘A’ type personality

Demand more and more in less time they do not afford to be lazy and want to do more then one thinks at a time they are always moving walking and eating rapidly

Example of ‘A’ Type personality.

In the North American Culture they have obtained successful achievement of material goods.

‘B’ type personality.

Exactly opposite of type A personality. They do not bother to do many things at once in an ever decreasing time they usually relax

without guilt

Values

Definition: Mode of conduct or end state is personally or socially

preferable (i.e., what is right & good)

Terminal ValuesDesirable End States

Instrumental ValuesThe ways/means for

achieving one’s terminal values

Value System: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual’s values in

terms of their intensity

Importance Of Value

• Provide understanding of the attitudes, motivation, and behaviors of individuals and cultures.

• Influence our perception of the world around us.

• Represent interpretations of “right” and “wrong.”

• Imply that some behaviors or outcomes are preferred over others

Type Of Value

• Terminal Values Desirable end-states of existence; the

goals that a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime

• Instrumental Values

Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one’s terminal values

Terminal Value

Values across Cultures: Hofstede’s Framework

• A brief definition would be that personality is made up of the characteristic set of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. In addition to this, personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life.

Values across Cultures: Hofstede’s Framework

• Power Distance

• Individualism vs. Collectivism

• Masculinity vs. Femininity

• Uncertainty Avoidance

• Long-term and Short-term orientation

Hofstede’s Framework for Assessing Cultures

• Power Distance

The extent to which a society accepts that power in institutions and organizations is distributed unequally.

Low distance: relatively equal power between those with status/wealth and those without status/wealth

High distance: extremely unequal power distribution between those with status/wealth and those without status/wealth

Hofstede’s Framework (cont’d)

• Individualism The degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather

than a member of groups.

• VS

Individualism

The degree to which people prefer to act as individuals rather than a member of groups.

Organizational Culture Profile (OCP)

• Useful for determining person-organization fit

• Survey that forces choices/rankings of one’s personal values

• Helpful for identifying most important values to look for in an organization (in efforts to create a good fit)

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