THE BASIC INDIVIDUAL

ORGANIZATION

By :1. Agnes Viani Parlan

(115030207121003)2. Mike Widia Wati (5030207121002)

THE NATURE OF PERSONALITY

Unique & Characteristic

Stable

Personality :it’s basic nature

Studied of extended period of time (month or even years)

Indeed reflect their stable traits whenever this is feasible

Recent studies of individual behaviour

Most people find personality an intriguing topic. They are aware of the fact that human beings differ in many ways and that these differences are important in everyday life. In other words, does knowing something about this topic really contribute to our understanding of behavior in organizational settings, and to the goals.

PERSONALITY and ORGANIZATIONAL

BEHAVIOUR

To recapitulate: at present, there is little disagreement over the fact that people differ from one another in important ways, and some of these differences, at least, are stable over time. Considerably greater controversy persists, however, over another issue: what are the origins of such differences? In other words, to what extent personality learned, and to what extent does it reflect the operation of genetic factors?

PERSONALITY : A NOTE ON ITS ORIGINS

WORK-RELATED

ASPECTS OFPERSONALITY

Never show humility-arrogance is far more effective when dealing with others

Morality and ethics are for weak-powerful person feel free to life, cheat, and the deceive whenever this suits there purpose

It is much better to be feared than loved

Machiavellianism:Using Others on the Way to

Success

For each item below, indicate whether you feel that choice (a) or choice (b) is closer to your own beliefs.

1. (a) I am the master of my fate (b) A great deal of what happens to me is probably a matter of choice

2. (a) Promotion are earned through hard work and persistence (b) Making a lot of money is largely a matter of getting the right breaks

3. (a) People like me can change the course of world affairs if we make ourselves heard (b) It is only wishful thinking to believe that we can really influence what happens is society at large

4. (a) In my experience, I have noticed that there is usually a direct connection between how hard I study and the grade I get (b) Many times the reactions of professors seem haphazard to me

5. (a) getting along with people is a skill that must be practiced (b) It is almost impossible to figure out how to please some people

Locus of Control: Perceived Control Over One’s

Outcomes and Fate

Component of social skills:Emotional expressivityEmotional sensitivityEmotional control Social expressivitySocial sensitivitySocial control

Social Skills: Individual Differences in the Ability to Get Along with Others

Self-monitoring are person who seem place aware of or concerned with their impact on other

Self-monitoring appears to be related to performance in other tasks or roles

Self-monitoring is also related to certain aspects of organizational conflict

Self-Monitoring: Public Image versus Private Reality

Self-efficiency, belief in one’s capability to perform a specific task

Feeling of self-efficiency influence the difficulty of goals chosen by individual

Self-efficiency may moderate reactions to various types of feedback

Self-Efficiency: Beliefs in One’s Ability to Perform Various Tasks

Self-esteem, the extent to which people hold positive or negative views about themselves

Considerable evidence indicates that they do have 3 points

Self-Esteem: The Importanceof Self-Evaluations

WORK RELATED MOTIVES:

ACHIEVEMENT, POWER, AND AFFILIATION

Relates to the strength of individuals desire to excel- to succeed at difficult tasks and do them better than anyone else

Person high in such motivation show several consistent tendencies:1. They’re task-oriented in outlook2. They tend to prefer situations involving

moderate levels of risk

Achievement Motivation:The Quest for Excellence

MEASURING PERSONALITY:

SOME BASIC METHODS

These consist of a series of question or statements to which individuals respond in various ways

Inventories and Questionnaires:Assessing Personality through

Self-Report

Projective techniques assume that if different persons are expose to ambiguous stimuli, each will report something different

The pattern of these differences, in turn, will reveal much about important aspects of personality

Projective Technique:Ambiguous Stimuli and Personality Assessment

Some measures of personality are doubtful reliability and validity

Even when measures of personality are both reliable and valid, relationships between the traits they assess and organizational behavior are often complex

When using information about personality, it’s all too easy to fall into the trap of allowing the labels we assign to specific persons to influence our perceptions of them

Using Information about Personality:Some Words of Caution

SUMMARY and

REVIEW

The Nature of Personality. Personality refers to the unique but stable set of characteristics and behaviors than set each individual apart from others. It is influenced by genetic factors as well by experience, and plays an important role in several aspects of organizational behavior

Work-Related Aspects of Personality. Self-monitoring are expressive , concerned with making good impression on others, and can adapt their behavior to match requirements of a given situation. Self-efficiency react to negative feed back by increasing their effort and motivation. Several personal motives (achievement, power, and affiliation motivation) are relevant to organizational behavior.

Measuring Personality. Personality is often assessed by means of inventories and questionnaires in which individuals answer various questions about themselves. It is sometimes also measured by means of projective techniques. Finally, personality (and many other individual differences) can be measured in assessment centers.