CHAPTER 1-Personality

ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR
DBA2110
TOPIC 1:
PERSONALITY
Learning Objectives
After studying this chapter, students should be able to:
1. Define personality and explain the factors that determine an

individual’s personality.
2. Describe the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) framework and
assess its strength and weaknesses.
3. Identify key traits in the Big Five Personality model.
4. Demonstrate how the Big Five traits predict behavior at work.
5. Identify other personality traits relevant to OB.
2.1 What is Personality?
Personality
The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts
and interacts with others.
Personality Traits
Enduring characteristics
that describe an
individual’s behavior.
2.2 Personality Determinant
• Heredity - the ultimate • Situation – influences the
explanation of an effect of environment on
individual’s personality is personality, which
the molecular structure of changes in different
the genes, located in the situation.
chromosomes.
• Environment - culture in
which one is raised, early
conditioning, the norms
among our family, friends,
social groups, and other
influence our experience.
2.3 Personality Theory
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBTI)
Sociable and Quiet and

Assertive Shy
Unconscious
Practical and
Processes
Orderly
Uses Values
Use Reason & Emotions
and Logic
Flexible and
Want Order Spontaneous
& Structure
• These classification together describe 16 personality
types, identifying every person by one trait from each of
the four pairs.
• INTJ – are visionaries with original minds and great drive.
• ESTJ – are organizers. They are realistic, logical,

analytical, and decisive and have a natural head for
business or mechanics.
• ENTP – are conceptualizer, innovative, individualistic,

versatile and attracted to entrepreneurial ideas.
The Big Five Personality
Model
How do the Big Five traits predict
behaviour at work?
Emotional stability
Relevant – Less negative thinking and emotions
Less hyper-vigilant
Job effect – Higher job and life satisfaction

Lower stress level
Extroversion
Relevant – Better interpersonal skills
Greater social dominance
More emotionally expressive
Job effect – Higher performance

Enhance leadership
Higher job and life satisfaction
Openness
Relevant - Increased learning
More creative
More flexible and autonomous
Job effect – Training performance

Enhanced leadership
More adaptable to change
Agreeableness
Relevant – Better liked
More compliant and conforming

Lower levels of deviant behavior
Conscientiousness
Relevant – Greater effort and persistence
More drive and discipline
Better organized and planning

Enhanced leadership
Greater longevity
Other Personality Traits related
to OB
• Core Self-Evaluation
– The degree to which people like or dislike themselves
– Positive self-evaluation leads to higher job performance
• Narcissism
– An arrogant, has a sense of entitlement, self-important person
who needs excessive admiration
– Less effective in their jobs
• Machiavellianism
– A pragmatic, emotionally distant power-player who believes
that ends justify the means
– High Machs are manipulative, win more often, and persuade
more than they are persuaded. Flourish when:
• Self-Monitoring
– The ability to adjust behavior to meet external,
situational factors.
– High monitors conform more and are more likely to
become leaders.
• Risk Taking
– The willingness to take chances.
– May be best to align propensities with job
requirements.
– Risk takers make faster decisions with less
information.
• Type A Personality
– Aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant
struggle to achieve more in less time
• Impatient: always moving, walking, and eating
rapidly
• Strive to think or do two or more things at once
• Cannot cope with leisure time
• Obsessed with achievement numbers
– Prized in North America but quality of the work is
low
– Type B people are the complete opposite
• Proactive Personality
– Identifies opportunities, shows initiative, takes
action, and perseveres to completion
– Creates positive change in the environment
THE END
Tutorial questions
1) What is personality? What factors determine
personality?
2) How do the Big Five Traits predict work
behavior?
3) Explain every personality types in other
personality traits in OB.

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ORGANIZATIONAL

1. Define personality and explain the factors that determine an

Sociable and Quiet and

• INTJ – are visionaries with original minds and great drive.

• ESTJ – are organizers. They are realistic, logical,

• ENTP – are conceptualizer, innovative, individualistic,

Job effect – Higher job and life satisfaction

Job effect – Higher performance

Job effect – Training performance

Job effect – Higher performance

Job effect – Higher performance

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