Organizational Behavior

1. Personality and Values
Organizational Behavior
CHAPTER FIVE:
By: Mohammad Qasim AYAZ
Lecturer, Altaqwa institute of Management Sciences
Mohammadqasimayaz@gmail.com

2. This Chapter includes
• Defining Personality?
• Component of Personality.
• Negative and Positive Effects of Personality.
• Personality Traits.
• Value and its importance.
• What is perception?
• Decision Making in organization.

3. Defining Personality?
• personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts,
feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique.
• Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns of thought,
emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms.

4. Negative and Positive Effects of Personality
Negative Personality Traits
1. Laziness
2. Unfriendly
3. Self-centered
4. Bossy
Positive Personality Traits
1. Encouraging
2. Reliable
3. Obedient
4. Humble
5. Confident
6. Intelligent

5. Personality Traits.
• Openness is appreciation for a variety of experience.
• Conscientiousness is planning ahead rather than being spontaneous.
• Extraversion involves going out with friends and being energetic.
• Agreeableness is, as it says, being agreeable.
• Neuroticism refers to worrying or being vulnerable.

6. Value and its importance.
• Values are principles that allow us to guide our behavior to fulfill ourselves as
individuals. They are fundamental beliefs that help us prefer, accept and choose one
thing over another or a behavior over another.
• Importance of value
• Values allow the members of an organization to interact pleasantly.
• They are source of satisfaction and fulfillment.
• In an organization, values serve as a framework for the behavior of its members.
• Valuable persons live according to their values.

7. What is perception?
• Perception can be defined as our recognition and interpretation of
sensory information.
• Perceptions vary from person to person. Different people perceive
different things about the same situation. But more than that, we assign
different meanings to what we perceive. And the meanings might
change for a certain person.

8. Decision Making in organization.
Decision making is the process to select a course of action from a number of alternatives.
1. Diagnosing, defining, and identifying the source of the problem.
2. Information gathering and analysis of the facts required to solve the problem.
3. Developing and evaluating alternative solutions to the problem.
4. Choosing the best decision from the alternatives.
5. Communicating the decisions.
6. Implementing the decisions.