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Chapter 5: Personality and Values
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Chapter 5: Personality and Values
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Chapter 5 Outline
What is Personality?
Why do we need to understand Personality?
Determinants of Personality
Theories of Personality
Measurement of Personality
Implications of Personality
Terminal and instrumental values
Hofstede’s five value dimensions of national culture.
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Personality
What?
Personality is the pattern of relatively enduring ways that a person feels, thinks, and behaves
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Are there good or bad personality traits?
The Nature of Personality
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Nature and Nurture: The Determinants of Personality
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Nurture
Life Experiences
Personality
Nature
Biological Heritage
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Nature vs Nurture Illustration
Video on nature vs nurture
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Theories of Personality
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm
Big Five Personality Traits
Dark Triad
Type A and Type B Personality
Locus of Control
Proactive
Self-Monitoring
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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Personality Framework- Strengths & Weaknesses
http://www.teamtechnology.co.uk/tt/t-articl/mb-simpl.htm
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
- Actions & feelings
- Extroverted or Introverted (E or I)
- Sensing(practical) or Intuitive (S or N)
- Thinking or Feeling (T or F)
- Perceiving(flexible) or Judging(control, order) (P or J)
- INTJs are visionaries.
- ESTJs are organizers.
- ENTPs are conceptualizers.
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The Big Five Model of Personality
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Extraversion
Neuroticism
Conscientiousness
Agreeableness
Openness to
Experience
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A Big Five Personality Profile
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The Big Five Traits Predict Behavior At Work
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- Person-Organization Fit
- high extraversion aggressive and team-oriented cultures.
- high agreeableness supportive organizational climate
- high openness to experience emphasizes innovation rather than standardization.
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Implications of Big 5 Traits
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Machiavellianism –pragmatic, maintain emotional distance, and believe that ends can justify means.
Narcissism – the tendency to be arrogant, have a grandiose sense of self-importance, require excessive admiration, and have a sense of entitlement.
Psychopathy – the tendency for a lack of concern for others and a lack of guilt or remorse when their actions cause harm.
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The Dark Triad
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Theories of Personality
- Type A and Type B Personality
Who is A or B?
Consider the interaction of employees with different types working in the same group
- Locus of Control
What is? Internals vs Externals?
- Proactive
Identify opportunities, show initiative, take action, and persevere until meaningful change occurs.
Self-Monitoring
- measures an individual’s ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational factors.
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Chapter 5 Summary
What is Personality?
Why do we need to understand Personality?
Determinants of Personality
Theories of Personality
Implications of Personality
Measurement of Personality
Personality & Situation interaction
Terminal and instrumental values
Hofstede’s five value dimensions of national culture.
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Measurement of Personality
- Big 5 Personality Traits questionnaire
- Type A and Type B Personalities
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Situation Strength Theory
- Personality and Situations
- Situation strength theory
- Personality behavior depends on the strength of the situation.
- Do norms, cues, or standards dictate appropriate behavior?
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Situation Strength Theory
- Personality and Situations
- Situation strength theory
- Personality behavior depends on the strength of the situation.
- Do norms, cues, or standards dictate appropriate behavior?
Clarity (less ambiguity)
Consistency (standardization)
Constraints (decision latitude)
Consequences (implications)
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Situation Strength Theory
- What are the implications for managers?
- The effects of situational strength?
- Advantages and disadvantages?
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Terminal and Instrumental Values
- What are Values?
- Judgment oriented- right/wrong
- Value system – ranks values in terms of intensity.
- Why?
- Attitudes, motivation and behaviors.
- Terminal values?
- Instrumental values?
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Compare Generational
Differences in Values
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Exhibit 5-4 Dominant Work Values in Today’s Workforce
| Cohort | Entered the Workforce | Approximate Current Age | Dominant Work Values |
| Boomers | 1965–1985 | 50s to 70s | Success, achievement, ambition, dislike of authority; loyalty to career |
| Xers | 1985–2000 | Mid-30s to 50s | Work-life balance, team-oriented, dislike of rules; loyalty to relationships |
| Millennials | 2000 to present | To mid-30s | Confident, financial success, self-reliant but team-oriented; loyalty to both self and relationships |
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Five generations in workplaces
- Traditionalists—born before 1946.
- Baby Boomers—born between 1946 and 1964.
- Generation X—born between 1965 and 1976.
- Generation Y, or Millennials—born between 1977 and 1997.
- Generation Z—born after 1997.
- https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2018/02/26/handle-5-generations-workplace/
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Hofstede’s Five Value
Dimensions Of National Culture
- Five value dimensions of national culture
Power distance
Individualism versus collectivism
Masculinity versus femininity
Uncertainty avoidance
Long-term versus short-term orientation
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Hofstede’s Five Value
Dimensions Of National Culture
- Five value dimensions of national culture
Power distance
Individualism versus collectivism
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Hofstede’s Five Value
Dimensions Of National Culture
- Five value dimensions of national culture
Power distance
Individualism versus collectivism
Masculinity versus femininity
Uncertainty avoidance
Long-term versus short-term orientation
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Summary of Chapter 5
- Summary
- Any questions????
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