ORGB Ch.3

• Factors that determine an individual's personality
  
  • Personality
    
    • The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts with others. It is most often decribed in terms of measurable traits that a person exhibits
      
• Myers-Briggs personality framework
  
  • Extroverted Vs Introverted
    
    • Extroverted individuals are outgoing, sociable, and assertive. Introverts are quiet and shy
      
  • Sensing Vs Intuitive
    
    • Sensing types are practical and prefer routines and order. They focus on details. Intuitives rely on unconscious processes and look at the big picture
      
  • Thinking Vs Feeling
    
    • Thinking types use reason and logic to handle problems. Feeling types rely on their personal values and emotions
      
  • Judging Vs Perceiving
    
    • Judging types want control and prefer their world to be ordered and structured. Perceiving types are flexible and spontaneous
      
• Big Five Personality Model
  
  • Extroversion
    
  • Agreeableness
    
  • Conscientiousness
    
  • Emotional stability
    
  • Openness to experience
    
• How major personality attributes predict behavior at work
  
  • Extroversion
    
    • Predicted performance in managerial and sales positions
      
  • Openness to experience
    
    • Was found to be important in predicting training proficiency
      
    • More creative in science and in art, less religious and more likely to be politically liberal
      
    • Cope better wit organizational change and are more adaptable in changing contexts
      
  • Extroverts tend to be happier in their jobs and in their lives as a whole
    
    • Appear to be more impulsive, are more likely to be absent from work and engage in risky behavior
      
  • Agreeable people
    
    • Happier that disagreeable people
      
  • Conscientious people
    
    • Tend to live longer
      
    • Don't adapt as well to changing contexts
      
    • Generally performance oriented
      
    • More trouble than less conscientious people learning complex skills early on
      
  • Emotional Stability
    
    • Most strongly related to life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and low stress levels
      
    • Fewer health complaints
      
  • Major Personality Attributes Influencing OB
    
    • Core self-evaluation
      
    • Machiavellianism
      
    • Narcissism
      
    • Self-monitoring
      
    • Risk taking
      
    • Type A and proactive personalities
      
• Terminal and Instrument values
  
  • Terminal values
    
    • Desirable end-states
      
  • Instrumental values
    
    • Preferable modes of behavior, or means of achieving the terminal values
      

    

• Dominant values in today's workforce
  
  • GenX: Team-oriented, focus on work/life balance, dislikes rules
    
  • Gen Y:Confident, self-reliant but team-oriented
    
  • Baby Boomers: Success-oriented, ambitious, dislikes authority
    
  • Veterans: Hard working, conservative, conforming
    

    
    

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• Hofstede's five value dimensions
  
  • High Power Distance Vs Low Power Distance
    
  • Individualism Vs Collectivism
    
  • Masculinity Vs Femininity
    
  • Uncertainty Avoidance
    
  • Long-term Orientations Vs Short-term Orientation