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Organizational Behavior: Chapter 5: Personality and Values

The document summarizes key concepts around personality and values from Chapter 5 of the textbook. It defines personality and describes how it is measured and influenced by heredity. It also outlines two frameworks for describing personality traits: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Big Five Model. The document further discusses other relevant personality traits and defines values and how they can be classified.

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Organizational Behavior: Chapter 5: Personality and Values

The document summarizes key concepts around personality and values from Chapter 5 of the textbook. It defines personality and describes how it is measured and influenced by heredity. It also outlines two frameworks for describing personality traits: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Big Five Model. The document further discusses other relevant personality traits and defines values and how they can be classified.

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Robbins & Judge

Organizational Behavior
14th Edition

Chapter 5: Personality andValues

By: Faiza Amir


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What is Personality?
The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts
and interacts with others, the measurable traits a
person exhibits
Measuring Personality: Most often described in terms of
measurable traits that a person exhibits, such as:
Shy, Aggressive, Submissive, Lazy, Ambitious, Loyal and
Timid
 Helpful in hiring decisions
 Most common method: self-reporting surveys
 Observer-ratings surveys provide an independent assessment
4-1 of personality – often better predictors
Personality Determinants
 Heredity
Factors determined by birth:
 physical stature,
facial attractiveness,
gender,
temperament,
muscle composition
and reflexes, energy level, and bio-rhythms
This “Heredity Approach” argues that genes are the
source of personality
 Twin studies: raised apart but very similar personalities
 Parents don’t add much to personality development
4-2  There is some personality change over long time periods
Personality Traits
Enduring characteristics that describe an
individual’s behavior
 The More consistent the characteristic and the More frequently it
occurs in diverse situations, the More important the trait.
Two dominant frameworks used to describe personality:
 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI®)
 Big Five Model

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The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
 Most widely-used instrument in the world.
 Participants are classified on four axes to determine
one of 16 possible personality types, such as ENTJ.
 Extroverted (E) vs. Introverted (I)
 Sensing (S) vs. Intuitive (N)
 Thinking (T) vs. Feeling (F)
 Judging (J) vs. Perceiving (P)

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The Types and Their Uses
 Each of the sixteen possible combinations has a name, for
instance:
 Visionaries (INTJ) – are original, stubborn and
driven.
 Organizers (ESTJ) – realistic, logical, analytical and
businesslike.
 Conceptualizer (ENTP) – entrepreneurial,
innovative, individualistic and resourceful.

 Research results on validity mixed.


 MBTI® is a good tool for self-awareness and counseling.
 Should not be used as a selection test for job candidates.
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The Big Five Model of Personality
Dimensions
 Extroversion
 Sociable, gregarious, and assertive
 Agreeableness
 Good-natured, cooperative, and trusting
 Conscientiousness
 Responsible, dependable, persistent, and organized
 Emotional Stability
 Calm, self-confident, secure under stress (positive), versus
nervous, depressed, and insecure under stress (negative)
 Openness to Experience
4-6  Curious, imaginative, artistic, and sensitive
How Do the Big Five Traits Predict Behavior?
Research has shown this to be a better framework.
 Certain traits have been shown to strongly relate to higher job
performance:
 Highly conscientious people
 develop more job knowledge,
 exert greater effort,
 have better performance.
 Other Big Five Traits also have implications for work.
 Emotional stability is related to job satisfaction.
 Extroverts tend to be happier in their jobs and have good social
skills.
 Open people are more creative and can be good leaders.
 Agreeable people are good in social settings.
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Other Personality Traits Relevant to OB
 Core Self-Evaluation
 The degree to which people like or dislike themselves
 Positive self-evaluation leads to higher job performance
 Locus of control – degree to which you believe you have control of your
own fate
 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:
 Have direct interaction
 Work with minimal rules and regulations
 Emotions distract others
 Narcissism
 An arrogant, entitled, self-important person who needs excessive
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admiration
 Less effective in their jobs
More Relevant Personality Traits
 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.

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Even More Relevant Personality Traits
 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
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Values
Basic convictions on how to conduct yourself or
how to live your life that is personally or
socially preferable –
“How to” live life properly.
Attributes of Values:
 Content Attribute – that the mode of conduct or
end-state is important
 Intensity Attribute – just how important that
content is.
Value System
 A person’s values rank-ordered by intensity
 Tends to be relatively constant and consistent
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Importance of Values
 Provide understanding of the attitudes,
motivation, and behaviors
 Influence our perception of the world
around us
 Represent interpretations of “right” and
“wrong”
 Imply that some behaviors or outcomes are
preferred over others
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Classifying Values – Rokeach Value Survey
 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
People in same occupations or categories tend to
hold similar values.
 But values vary between groups.
 Value differences make it difficult for groups to
negotiate and may create conflict.
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