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Organizational Behavior
1. Extroversion
2. Agreeableness
3. Emotional stability
4. Open to experience
5. Conciseness
1. Locus of Control
2. Machiavellianism
3. Self esteem
4. Self Monitoring
5. Risk Taking
6. Type A Personality
7. Type B Personality
Friday, January 22, 2010
Organizational Behavior
8. Proactive Personalities
9. Internals
10.Externals
The categories of people who believe that they are the master of their field and
believe that they control what happened to them are classified as internals.
The other categories of people who believe that their lives are being control by
outside focus and they believe that whatever happens to them is due to luck or
chance are classified as externals.
Externals less satisfied with their job, have higher abstention rates and are less
involved on their jobs.
Externals are more dissatisfied because they have little control over the
organizational outcomes
Externals are more suited to jobs that are well structured in which success depends
with the direction of others.
Internals exhibits more motivation and willingness to take actions for their
improvements
Externals are most suited to jobs that required initiative and independence of
actions.
*** Machiavellianism: -
This character was identified by Niccole Machiavelli during 16th century. It the
degree to which an individual is programmatic and maintains emotional distance
High self esteem individuals that they possess the ability they need to succeed at
work, they take more risk in job selection and choose unconventional job and they
are more satisfied
Low esteem people are more susceptible to external influences and they depend on
others.
*** Risk Taking: - People differ in their willingness to take chances. High risk
taking managers make more rapid decisions and use less information in making
their choice than low risk taking managers.
Ex: - High risk taking propensity lies to more effective performance in case of
stock trader in a brokerage firm because this job needs rapid decision making.
An accountant performing auditing activity is suitable for low risk taking individual.
They feel important with the rate at which most events take place.
*** Type B Personality:- Type B's are rarely hurried by the desire to obtain a
widely increasing no of things in and endless growing series of evened in and every
decreasing amount of time.
The characteristic B is they will never suffer from a sense of time emergence.
They feel that there is no need to display or discuss their achievements unless such
expose is demanded by the situations.
It is the in which an individual identify opportunity show initiative and take actions.
They create positive in their environment regardless of
Proactive is likely to be seen as leader. They achieve carrier success because they
select, create an influence work situation in their favor.
They developed contacts in high places and are likely to seek out jobs and
organizational information. And they engage themselves in planning...
Questions:-
1. Define Personality.