BU288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion And Introversion
BU288 Lesson 2: Personality
Personality: A Definition
-A relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual
interacts with their environment and how they feel, think, and behave
-What factors influence personality development?
• Heredity
o We are born with a certain type of characteristics/certain DNA; some aspects
from our parents that we take on
o Studies of twins and siblings
• Environment and situational factors
o Where we’re raised affects how our personality develops
o The experiences that we have affects how our personality develops
-Why are we interested in personality for OB?
• HR and organizations study personality characteristics b/c they influence performance at
work
• Experiments found 171 distinct personality traits
The Big Five Personality Dimensions (O.C.E.A.N.)
-Extraversion: The quality of being confortable with relationships
• Extroverted: Talkative, assertive, likes to be social
• Introverted: Shy, doesn’t like to be social
-Neuroticism/Emotional Stability: The ability to handle stress
• High in neuroticism: Tend to get anxious/angry/depressed, emotional
• Low in neuroticism: Won’t show stress they’re under, cool, calm, collected, poised,
secure
-Agreeableness: The ability to get along with others
• High in agreeableness: Compromise, avoid conflict, team player, gentle, forgiving
• Low in agreeableness: Intolerant, uncooperative, suspicious
-Conscientiousness: The degree of felt responsibility and detail orientation
• High in conscientiousness: Well organized, thorough, methodical-ness
• Low in conscientiousness: Disorganized, lazy, poor attention to detail
-Openness to Experience: The ability to be flexible and open-minded
• Open to experience: Original, creative, comes up with ideas
• Not open to experience: Low in creativity, close-minded, not interested, low levels of
intellectual curiosity
-My Big 5 Personality Score:
http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/results/?oR=0.475&cR=0.778&eR=0.531&aR=0.806&nR
=0.312
The Big Five and Job Performance
-Extraversion:
• Positive when job requires social interaction
• Also positively related to training proficiency
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Document Summary
A relatively stable set of psychological characteristics that influences the way an individual interacts with their environment and how they feel, think, and behave. Why are we interested in personality for ob: hr and organizations study personality characteristics b/c they influence performance at work, experiments found 171 distinct personality traits. Extraversion: the quality of being confortable with relationships: extroverted: talkative, assertive, likes to be social. Neuroticism/emotional stability: the ability to handle stress: high in neuroticism: tend to get anxious/angry/depressed, emotional, low in neuroticism: won"t show stress they"re under, cool, calm, collected, poised, secure. Agreeableness: the ability to get along with others: high in agreeableness: compromise, avoid conflict, team player, gentle, forgiving, low in agreeableness: intolerant, uncooperative, suspicious. Conscientiousness: the degree of felt responsibility and detail orientation: high in conscientiousness: well organized, thorough, methodical-ness, low in conscientiousness: disorganized, lazy, poor attention to detail.
