What is Personality ?

 Personality can be reflected in a person’s

temperament and is a key factor influencing
individual behaviour in the organisation.

 Personalityis a stable set of characteristics and

tendencies that determine individual behaviours
( thoughts, feelings, actions etc. )
 Personality develops with advancement in an
individual’s age passing through certain stages in
a sequential order.

 Different
psychologists and behavioural scientists
have come out with different stages explaining
how an individual’s personality develops or
shapes.
1) The Oral Stage – The oral stage lasts for the first
year of one’s life. This is called the infancy
stage.The infants are totally dependent upon others
for survival and growth.
2) The anal Stage – It extends throughout the second
and third year of a child. Parents give training to
the child.
3) The Phallic Stage – It develops at the age of four
years.
4) The Latency Stage – It takes place between the age
of six and seven years. It refers to the school age
and it is the longest period wherein one’s
personality is shaped in a definite pattern.
5) The Genital Stage – It refers to the adulthood. One
takes interest in opposite sex. One tends to seek
Love and attraction in this stage.
 Eriksonextended Fraud’s theory in a more
systematic manner and identified eight stages
of human life.
 Movement from one stage to next one is
developmental
1) Infancy – (1 yr)
2) Early Childhood (2-3 yrs)
3) Play Age ( 4-5 yrs )
4) School Age ( 6-12 Yrs )
5) Adolescence ( 15- 18 Yrs )
6) Young Adulthood ( 20 – 23 Yrs )
7) Adulthood ( 30-40-50 Yrs)
8) Old Age ( Sunset Age ) – ( 60 – 75 Yrs )
 Locus of Control – It refers to one’s belief
that what happens is either within one’s
control or beyond one’s control. The former
is called internals and the latter is called
external. Luck factor matters.
 Machiavellanism – ( named after Niccolo
Machiavelle ). Its refers to an individual’s
propensity to manipulate people for solving
his interest.
 Self Esteem – Individuals regard themselves
as capable to achieve success.
 Self-Monitoring
 Risk taking
 Definition – It is defined as a more or less
stable set of predisposition of opinion,
interest or purpose involving expectancy of a
certain kind of experience and a readiness
with an appropriate response.
 It is also known as frames of reference
 It always remains inside a person
 It becomes necessary to know the attitudes of
the members of the organisation.
A person can have thousands of attitudes, but
OB focuses on limited job related attitudes.
1) Job Satisfaction – High level job satisfaction
holds positive attitude towards job.
2) Job Involvement – High level of job
involvement fewer absenteeism and
resignation
3) Organisational Commitment – The degree to
which an employee identifies with a particular
organisation and its goal and wishes to
maintain membership in the organisation.
Factors affecting our personality formation
 Culture
 Early conditioning
 Norms among family, friends and social groups
 Any other external influences
 Attitudes and values passed from generations
 Our Ideologies and beliefs