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I completed this presentation at the University of Phoenix for a psychology class. It looks at an interpretation of Alfred Adler's theory of safe guarding tendencies and Gordon Allport's theory of functional autonomy as they relate to a couple personal workplace situations.
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Coy StokerUniversity of Phoenix
Personality and the Workplace Presentation
Table of ContentsIntroductionAlfred Adler – Social InterestAlfred Adler – Safe-guarding TendenciesPersonality in the Workplace - E.I.,
Conflict Resolution Styles, and FFMGordon Allport – Functional Autonomy Gordon Allport - Features of a Psychologically
Healthy PersonConclusion
Personality & Workplace 1Personality &
Workplace 1
Introduction
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Gordon Allport
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Alfred Adler
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Alfred Adler
Social Interest
Personality & Workplace 3Personality &
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Innate
Pre
dis
posi
tion Personal
Superiority
Social Success
Alfred Adler
Safe-guarding Tendencies
Personality & Workplace 4Personality &
Workplace 4
Excuses
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Aggression
Personality in the Workplace
E.I., Conflict Resolution Styles, and FFM
Personality & Workplace 5Personality &
Workplace 5
• Avoiding
• Dominating or Competing
• Accommodating
• Compromising
• Collaborating or Integrating
Conflict Resolution Styles
Gordon Allport
Functional Autonomy
Personality & Workplace 6Personality &
Workplace 6
Basal Motivations (i.e. hunger, self-
satisfaction, affection, etc…)
Behavior (i.e. exercising, dieting,
etc…)
Lose Weight and Inches
General Satisfaction with Physical Fitness
becomes a functionally autonomous motivation
Gordon Allport
Features of a Psychologically Healthy Person
Personality & Workplace 7Personality &
Workplace 7
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Conclusion
Personality & Workplace 8Personality &
Workplace 8
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…” (Frost, 1920, para. 1)
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Personal Superiority
Social Success
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