Personality

#1.What is personality?
-Personality is a comprehensive and complicated concept. Everyone expresess themselves by their own
psychophysical characteristics. When people produce continue but distinctive behavior by combining
and co-ordinating those characteristics, then it will be called personality.
At the end, we can say that personlaity is the individual behavior that distinguish one person from
another.
#2.What are the determinants of personality?
-Perso ality ai ly deter i ed y heredity a d e iro
also odifies our eha ior, a d that is situatio

Heredity

Physical structure
Muscle power
Facial
attractiveness

Environment

Situation

e t , ut there is a additio al fa tor that

Belief
Value
Norms

Mosque
Picnic
Interview board

#3.Explain the personality job fit theory.

- To match job require e ts ith perso ality hara teristi s, e a follo Joh Holla d s perso ality
job fit theory. He presented six personality type.
Type
Characteristics
Congruent occupation
1.Realistic: involves skill,
Shy, genuine, stable
Mechanic, drill press operator,
strength, and coordination
2. Investigative: involves
Analytical, curious
Biologist, economist,
thinking, organizing, and
mathematician,
understanding
3. Social: involves helping and
Sociable, friendly, cooperative
Social worker, teacher,
developing others
counselor,

4.Conventional: involves rules,

regualations, order
5.Enterprising: involves verbal
activities by which influence
other and attain power
6.Artistic: involves creativity

Inflexible, conforming

Accountant, Bank teller

Self-confident, energatic,
ambitious

Real estate agent, Lawyer

Imaginative, idealistic, emotional

Painter, musician, writer

#4.What is Personality type-A and Personality type-B? Explain their major attributes.
- Personality A
Is the type of people who constantly works under time pressure and wants to achieve more and more
within less time. They are always hard working, competitive, challenging
Personality B
This type of people are just opposite to type A. This type of people takes time, sobber, calm and thinking
personality

Major attributes:

P-A

Feel high level of stress

Moving, walking and
working rapidly
Look impatience
Count number as a
measure of success

P-B

Cope with leasiure time

Never suffer from stress
Play fun for relaxtion
Do relax

In asian country, top level management show P-B attributes, and in middle-lower management show PA attributes. In north-americal country most executives prefer P-A attributes

#5.Explain The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

-Myers-Briggs identified 8 personalities on 4 dimension by asking 100 personality question:Dimension 1

Extravertedoutgoing, assertive
Introverted-quiet,
shy

Dimension2

Sensing-practical
Intutive-unconcious
process

Dimension3

Thinking-use reason
and logic
Feeling-use values
and emotions

Dimension4

Judging-want
control in
structured way
Perceiving-flexible
and spontaneous

#6.Explain the big five personality model.

-Because of the limitation of the MBTI, the big five model had been evaluated:Extrav
ersion

Extravertsgregorious
Introvertesreserve, timid

Agree
ablene
ss
Consci
entiou
sness
Emoti
onal stabilit
y
Openn
ess to
experi
ence

High agreeabletrusting
Low agreeabledisagreeable
High
ConscientiousOrganised
Low
ConscientiousDistracted

Positive-calm,
secure
Negativenervious,anxiou
s

Extremely opencreative,curious
Conventionalfind comfort in
familier