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BOH4M. Personality. What is Personality?. It includes a characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. Embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people
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BOH4M Personality
What is Personality? • It includes a characteristic way of thinking, feeling, and behaving. • Embraces moods, attitudes, and opinions and is most clearly expressed in interactions with other people • It includes behavioral characteristics, both inherent and acquired, that distinguish one person from another and that can be observed in people's relations to their environment.
What Makes Up Personality? • Inherent Characteristics • Acquired Characteristics
Inherent Characteristics • Each one of us is born with inherent personality characteristics - traits, meaning our biological genetic coding • Determines the way our brain develops and how our personality expresses itself
Acquired Characteristics • Learned parts of personality are called characteristics. Characteristics are the behavioral patterns that we develop as a result of what we have learned. • They are the distinguishing qualities that differentiate us from others • Are responsible for the formation of habits, comfort zones, quirks, and other behavioral patterns.
Theories of Personality • Trait Approach • “Great leaders are born” • Behaviour Approach • “Great leaders are made”
Trait Approach • Assumes that certain physical, social, and personal characteristics are inherent in leaders. • Sets of traits and characteristics were identified to assist in selecting the right people to become leaders. • Physical traits include young to middle-aged, energetic, tall, and handsome. • Social background traits include being educated at the "right" schools or upwardly mobile.
Trait Approach • Social characteristics include being charismatic, charming, tactful, popular, cooperative, and diplomatic. • Personality traits include being self-confident, adaptable, assertive, and emotionally stable • Task-related characteristics include being driven to excel, accepting of responsibility, having initiative, and being results-oriented.
Behavioural Theorists • Identified determinants of leadership so that people could be trained to be leaders • Developed training programs to change managers' leadership behaviors and assumed that the best styles of leadership could be learned • For example: theory Y versus theory X including situational management
Perception • Is the process which people receive and interpret information from the environment. • Perceptions are influenced by values, cultural background and other circumstances of the moment and can lead to distortion.
Perceptual Distortions • Stereotypes – places attributes commonly associated to a specific group to a specific individual • Halo Effect – when one attribute is used to develop an overall impression of a person or situation • Selective perception – to define problems from only your point of view • Projections – assuming your desires are also the desires of someone else