Personality and Perception

SUMMARY

Personality can be described as a set of characteristics that influences or triggers and individuals behavior. This chapter describes how personality affects an organization.

There are different personality theories that explains personality:

Trait theory, Psychodinamic Theory, Humanistic Theory, and Inteegrative theory. All of them giving a different perseption on personality.

Myers and Brigs type indicators are some other approaches to personalities: Extraversion vs Introversion, Sensing vs intuiting, Thinking vs Feeling, and Judging vs perceiving.

Locus of control is the individual generalized belief of internal control. It divides itself in INTERNAL locus of control, and EXTERNAL locus of control.

Lastly we can say that perceptuion is the way we view the world . and social perseption how we view others, and that can be influenced by the perceiver, the target and the situation.

There are two very important principles explained in this chapter: The Pollyana Priincipal and the Pygmalian Principle.

Why is important for managers and employees to be able to understand different types of personalities?

To understand different types of personalities in an organizational community is extremely important. Not only because understanding different personalities can avoid many conflicts and problems between members. Also it gives the opportunity of knowing how to approach different perople, how to say things according to each personality. We all know that everyone is different, so we have to deal and understand those difference and be flexible according to each personality. If a manager knows and understands the different personalities in his work team, than he!she will know how to approach them and how to use them in different situations.

References:

1. http://www.healthinharmony.com/images/s-half%20full%20glass.JPG