2. What is Personality?
“ The some total of ways
in which an individual
reacts and interacts with
others”

3. Personality Determinants
 Heredity
 Environment
 Situation

4. Personality Traits
 “Enduring characteristics
that describe an
individual’s behavior”

5. Sixteen Primary Traits
 Reserved  Outgoing
 Less intelligent  More intelligent
 Tough minded  Sensitive
 Uncontrolled  Controlled
 Relaxed  Tense
 Practical  Imaginative
 Serious  Happy-go-lucky
 Conservative  experimenting

6. The Big Five Personality Model
 Extraversion
 Agreeableness
 Conscientiousness
 Emotional stability
 Openness to experience

7. Extraversion
 A personality dimension
describing someone who
is sociable, gregarious,
and assertive

8. Agreeableness
 A personality dimension
that describe someone
who is good-natured,
cooperative, and trusting.

9. Conscientiousness
 A personality dimension
that describe someone
who is responsible,
dependable, persistent,
and organized.

10. Emotional stability
 A personality dimension
that characterizes
someone as calm, self-
confident, secure
(positive) verses nervous,
depressed, and insecure
(negative).

11. Openness to experience
 A personality dimension
that characterizes
someone in terms of
imaginativeness, artistic,
sensitivity, and
intellectualism.

12. Mayers-Briggs Type Indicator
(MBIT)
 A personality test that taps four characteristics
and classified people into one of 16 personality
types.
 Extraversion/ Introversion (E or I)
 Sensing/ Intuiting (S or N)
 Thinking/ Feeling (T or F)
 Judging/ Perceiving (J-P)

13. Major Personality attributes
influencing O.B
 Locus of control (Internal/ external)
 Self-esteem
 Self-monitoring
 Risk-taking
 Person-situation interaction

14. Locus of control
 The degree to which people believe that they are
masters of their own fate.
 Internals: Individual who believe that they
control what happens to them.
 Externals: Individual who believe that what
happens to them is controlled by outside forces
such as luck or chance.

15.  Self-esteem: Individuals’ degree of liking or
disliking of themselves.
 Self-monitoring: A personality trait that
measures an individual’s ability to adjust his or
her behavior to external, situational factors.

16. Types of personality
 Type A personality
 Type B personality

17. The personality-job fit theory
 Identifies six personality types and proposes that
the fit between personality type occupational
environment determines satisfaction and
turnover.

18. Holland’s Typology of personality
and congruent occupations
 Realistic
 Investigative
 Social
 Conventional
 Enterprising
 Artistic