Personality at Workplace

“The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical system that determine his unique adjustments to his environment”

                                                                                            (Gordan Allport)

Every individual has a unique combinations of characteristics that are affected their personality and those factors directly influences his or her success at work place.

Determinants of personality

Heredity- every person has their own heredity and that come from genes. Some are:

-Facial attractiveness

-Gender

-Physical structure

-Muscle composition

-Energy level

-Bio rhythms

-Reflexes

Environment – An Environment is help to shaping our personality. Our family, and friends can be consider as an environment as well as social groups plays a substantial role in our personality development.

Situation – An individual’s personalty stable and consistent every time, may be more effective in some situations than others. The different demands of different situations call for different aspects off one’s personality.

 

Traits of personality

In diverse situations may occur people’s habitual patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Those are consider as a reflect of personality traits. Two dominant framework used to describe personality .

• Big Five Model
• Myers- Briggs Type Indicator

• Big Five Model
  Psychologist are believe that there are five dimensions of personality called as Big 5 or “OCEAN” and these traits strongly relate to higher job performance.

Openness

People who are have this traits are more adventurous and very creative. Main features of this trait are imagination and insight. Those who have this trait are concern about the world and other people and learn new things and enjoyed with new experiences.

Full of openness

• Very creative
• Try to do new things and tackling new challenges and happy to think about those concept.

Low of openness

• Do not imagine and do not like abstract or theoretical concepts.
• Do not like change and
• Do not enjoy new things

Conscientiousness

High level of thoughts fullness , good impulse control and goal directed behaviors are standard features if this dimension.

Full of Conscientiousness

• Important task finished at right way
• Spends time for preparing and working for a schedule.
• Before perform collecting relevant details in full.

Low of Conscientiousness

• Always fail to complete important and assigned tasks
• Do not maintain structure and schedules.
• Every time make messes.

Extraversion

Extraversion or extroversion standard features are excitability, sociability, talkativeness, assertiveness and high amount of emotional expressiveness. Those who have high Extraversions are outgoing and tend to gain energy in social situations.

Full of Extraversion

• Makes new friends easily and has wide social circle of friends
• Like to get attention.
• Start conversations with new people easily
• Energized when people are with him.

Low of Extraversion

• Like to be solitude.
• Difficult to having a conversion with new people
• Do not like to get attention and always think about things before speaking.

 

Agreeableness

This dimension’s features are trust, altruism, kindness , affection and other pro social behaviors. People who have agreeableness features are more cooperativeness .

Full of Agreeableness

• Always care about others and interest about others.
• Assists and enjoys helping others.

Low of Agreeableness

• Doesn't care about other people’s interests, feelings and problems.
• Insult others.

 

Neuriticism

Neuriticism’s features are sadness , moodiness, and they are emotionally instability. People who are rich with this traits will be affected to the organization negatively, but low in this traits to be more stable and emotionally resilient.

Full of Neuriticism

• Stress fullness
• Always get upset and worry about things
• Feels anxious.

Low of Neuriticism

• Well deal with stress.
• Stable in emotionally.
• Very relax and doesn't worry too much

many psychologist believe this five personality dimensions are not only universe, they also have Biological origins. As well as both biological and environment may play a role to developing our personality factors.

• Myers- Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

MBTI is an inventory to understand people and their lives. This is a psychological theory. Over the past 40 years MBTI instrument proved as a best instrument for discover the personality types. It is a valid and reliable. In 1920 Carl G Jung was introduced the psychological theory and base on that in 1940 MBTI was constructed by Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers.

This instrument has 16 distinctive personality types, each set has four set of letters.

E & I – Indicate Extraversion & Intraversion.

S & N – Indicate Sensing & Intuition

T & F – Indicate Thinking & Feelings

J & P – Indicate Judging & perceiving

 

 

 

Identification of each and every employee's traits or natural reflexes is essential because can be identified how they interact and behave with others and how they fit with task and how they manage their responsibilities on their positions. There are some advantages by identifying of personality.

Will be Helped to:

• Motivate employees
• Reduce turnovers
• Decrease conflicts
• Improve collaboration
• Communicate effectively