BYKuhu Pathak

CMBA2

What is Personality?

The dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment. - Gordon Allport.

– The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others, the measurable traits a person exhibits

Measuring Personality– Helpful in hiring decisions– Most common method: self-reporting surveys– Observer-ratings surveys provide an independent

assessment of personality – often better predictors

What is the Big Five?

Personality Traits or Personality Dimensions An integration of personality research that

represents the various personality descriptions in one common framework.

Individual differences in social and emotional life organized into a five-factor model of personality

“broad abstract level and each dimension summarized a larger number of … personality characteristics”.

“BIG FIVE” personality model

Human resources professionals often use the Big Five personality dimensions to help place employees. That is because these dimensions are considered to be the underlying traits that make up an individual’s overall personality:

The BIG FIVE

EXTRAVERSION FOCUSES ON THE COMFORT LEVEL OF AN INDIVIDUAL IN INTERACTION WITH OTHERS.

Assertive Outgoing Talkative

Open

Timid Quiet

Reserved

EXTRAVERSION INTROVERSION

AGREEABLENESS REFERS TO AN INDIVIDUAL’S BEHAVIOR TOWARDS OTHERS WHILE INTERACTING WITH THEM.

Good Natured Co-operative

Trusting Sympathetic

Kind Appreciative

Assertive Suspicious Distant

Unfriendly

HIGH AGREEABLENESS LOW AGREEABLENESS

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS REFERS TO THE EXTENT TO WHICH INDIVIDUALS SHOW CONSISTENT & RELIABLE BEHAVIOR WHILE WORKING IN THE ORGANIZATION.

High Responsible Dependable Organized Persistent

Thorough

Unreliable Disorganized Inconsistent Easy-going

Careless

HIGH CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

LOW CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

EMOTIONAL STABILITY REFERS TO THE ABILITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO CONTROL HIS/HER EMOTIONS AT THE TIME OF CRISIS.

Calm Self-confident

Secure Stable

Contented

Nervous Depressed

Insecure Fearful Moody Tense

Positive Emotions Negative Emotions

OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE MEASURES THE INDIVIDUAL’S ABILITY TO BE OPEN TO ANY KIND OF EXPERIENCE THAT HELPS HIM/HER TO DO THE JOB EFFECTIVELY.

More Approachable Creative

Imagination Curiosity Original

Uncomfortable Practical

Traditional Down-to-earth Conservative

Simple

HIGH OPEN TO EXPERIENCE

LOW OPEN TO EXPERIENCE

Provides explanation of leader and follower tendencies

Useful categorization scheme for discussions

Successfully works in many environments

Tend to be constant over time

Good profiling for corporate and occupational functions

Universally accepted across cultures

ADVANTAGES

INVESTIGATION OF CERTAINDESCRIPTORS

LIMITATION

LIMITED SCOPEthe Big Five does not explain all of human personality, the five factors are not independent.

METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES

solutions may be viable in a single dataset, only the five factor structure consistently replicates across different studies

THEORETICAL STATUSit is merely an empirical(OBSERVATION) ,the scope of Big Five as an explanatory or predictive theory.

CRITICS

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, and 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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