TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

Sector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75Affiliated Institution of G.G.S.IP.U, Delhi

ORGANISTAIONAL BEHAVIOUR

PERSONALITYBY: SAKHSI

GOEL(Managament)

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75

PERSONALITY

Personality ay may be understood as the characteristics pattern of behavior and modes of thinking that determines a person’s adjustment to the environment. Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.

Personality is a set of characteristics and tendencies that determine those commonalities and differences in the behavior (thought, feelings and actions) of people that have continuity in time and that may not be easily understood as the sole result of the social and biological pressures of the moment.

Factors shaping Personality•Heredity•Brain•Physical traits•Emotional makeup and temperament•Interest•Motives•Family factors(family size, birth order, race, religion, geographic location•Situational factors

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75

Theories of Personality

• Psycho-analytical theory of personality• Erikson stages of Personality Development• Chris Argyris’s Immaturity-Maturity Theory• Cattel’s Trait Theory• Big Five Traits Model

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75

Psycho-Analytical Theory of Personality

It is based on the notion that persona is

motivated more by unseen forces than by

conscious and rational thoughts. The

framework include three conflicting

psychoanalytic concepts:

The ID: foundation of unconscious behaviour. Aggresion, Power and Domination.

The EGO: ego is conscious . Ego keeps the ID in check through the realities.

The SUPER EGO: it represents social and personal norms and serves as an ethical constraints on behaviour.

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75

ERIKSON Stages of personality• Infancy• Early childhood• Play age• School age• Adolescence• Early Adulthood• Adulthood• Mature Adulthood

CHRIS ARGYRIS’s Immaturity-Maturity Theory

IMMATURITY CHARACTERISTICS

• Passivity• Dependence• Few ways of behaving• Shallow interest• Short –term perspective• Subordinate position• Little self-awareness

MATURITY CHARACTERISTICS• Activity• Independence• Diverse behavior• Deep interest• Lon-time perspective• Super ordinate position• Much self-awareness

CATTELS’s Trait Theory- Sixteen Primary Traits

BIG FIVE Traits Model Theory

TRINITY INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIESSector – 9, Dwarka Institutional Area, New Delhi-75

Personality Traits Influencing Organizational Behavior

• Authoritarianism• Machiavellianism• Introversion and extroversion• Type ‘A’ and Type ‘B’ personality• Self-Concept and Self-Esteem• Locus of Control