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    Module 4

    Personality and Values


    Definition of Personality
    • Personality is a dynamic organization
    within an individual of those
    Psychophysical Characteristics that
    determines his Characteristic Behaviour
    and Thought
    Personality Determinants
    • Heredity

    • Brain

    • Family

    • Culture

    • Social Factors

    • Situational Factors
    Theories of Personality
    Myers – Briggs Type Indicator
    • 100 question Personality Test
    • Asks people how they usually feel or act in particular
    situations
    • Classification of Respondents
    – Extraverted (E) or Introverted (I)
    – Sensing (S) or Intuitive (N)
    – Thinking (T) or Feeling (F)
    – Judging (J) or Perceiving (P)
    Classification
    • Extraverted (Outgoing, Sociable, Assertive)
    • Introverted (Quiet, Shy)
    • Sensing (Practical, Prefer Routine & Order, Focus on Details)
    • Intuitive (Rely on Unconscious Processes & Look at Big Picture)
    • Thinking (Use Reason & Logic to handle Problems)
    • Feeling (Rely on Personal Values & Emotions)
    • Judging (Want Control & Prefer World to be Ordered &
    Structured)
    • Perceiving (Flexible, Spontaneous)
    BIG FIVE FACTOR PERSONALITY
    Personality Theories/Approaches:
    • Type Theory
    • Psychoanalytical Approach
    • Trait Approach
    • Biological approach
    • Humanistic Approach
    • Behavioral/Social Learning Approach
    • Cognitive Approach
    Type Theory
    • Relationship is sought between Features
    of Body & Personality
    • Endomorph (Short, Plum) : Sociable,
    Relaxed, Even Tempered
    • Ectomorph (Tall, Thin): Restrained, Self
    Conscious, Fond of Solitude
    Type Theory
    • Mesomorph (Heavy Set Muscular) – Noisy,
    Callous, Fond of Physical Activity
    • Classification by Carl Jung
    – Introvert
    – Entravert
    Trait Approach
    • This approach focuses on the way people
    differ from each other and how these
    differences can be conceptualized and
    measured as personality characteristics
    • Trait is consistent attribute that appears
    consistently in variety of situations
    Psychoanalytical approach
    • This approach looks at the workings of the
    unconscious mind and the nature and
    resolution of internal mental conflict
    Biological Approach

    • This approach tries to understand


    personality in terms of the body such as
    anatomy, chemistry, physiology, genetic
    inheritance, the brain, and shared
    evolutionary characteristics
    Behaviourist/Social Learning

    • The ways in which people change as a result


    of experience (the rewards and punishments
    or consequences they encounter) and how
    the social environment influences personality
    Values & Employee Behavior
    Values
    • Values represent basic convictions that a “specific
    mode of conduct or end state of existence is
    personally or socially preferable to an opposite or
    converse mode of conduct or end state of
    existence.
    • Values have Content & Intensity Attributes
    • Content: Mode of Conduct/End State of Existence
    is Important
    • Intensity: How Important it is
    Types of Values
    Terminal Values
    • Desirable End States of Existence; the
    goals a person would like to achieve
    during his life time.
    Instrumental Values
    • Preferable Modes of Behavior or means of
    achieving one’s terminal values.

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