Reply to both in the context of organizational behavior

1. Personality is a set of thoughts, behaviors, and feelings that a person is characterize for and make a person unique. “Is the bundle of characteristics that make us similar to or different from other people” (McShane & Glinow, 2018). People deal with different behaviors in their daily lives, this is called personality traits. Traits helps to understand how people think and their individual preferences, this can be genetically based and can include agreeable, conscientiousness, introversion, extroversion, etc. If we understand the person’s personality, we may be able to predict their behavior.

Personality can be determined as nature and nurture, where nature refers to the genetic or hereditary origins, genetic code affects person attitudes, decisions, and behavior too. On the other side nurture refers to our socialization, different forms of interaction, and life experiences. Personality changes during the years and can stabilize around age 30.

Personality can be measured with different models like the five-factor model, the Jungian personality theory, and the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator MBTI is the most popular personality test. “The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment” (The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 2020).

Some of the strengths of this method are that this model describe and explain the respondent’s personality, this method is extremely simple and minimalistic, and also packs a lot of complexity into a deceptively simple model. MBTI also has some weaknesses, this are that the theory is too simple that a certain subset of people believed themselves to be experts on the MBTI, also people that have serious shortcomings or psychological pathologies use the positive type descriptions to gloss over these difficulties.

The Big Five model is a test that measure personality traits such as extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. This different traits represent five categories of individual characteristics that can be grouped together in people. This traits have to be measured separately going from low to high. Each one is independent to another one, this means that each trait has its own score and does not influence the level of another trait. This model has some weaknesses, some of this are that is not fully orthogonal to one another, it means that is not independent. Can appear negative correlations between the neuroticism and extroversion. Also, cannot explain all of human personality and this theory only rely on self-report questionnaires to be measured. But this model also has some strengths, some of this are that the model has proven to be fairly accurate in predicting patterns of behavior over a period of time. Also is more focused on academic behaviors in relation to personality.

References:

McShane, S. L., & Glinow, M. V. (2018). Organizational Behavior. New York: McGraw Hill Education.

The Myers & Briggs Foundation. (2020). MBTI Basics. Retrieved from The Myers & Briggs Foundation: https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/

2. Personality incorporates conduct qualities, both innate and obtained, that recognize one individual from another and that can be seen in individuals’ relations to nature and the social gathering. Personality can be measure with the five following factors (Schultz & Schultz, 2016):

Receptiveness: This quality has additionally been classified “Mind” by certain analysts, yet this wording has been generally surrendered on the grounds that it suggests that individuals high in Openness are increasingly keen, which isn’t really valid.

Honesty: Honesty depicts an individual’s degree of objective direction and industriousness.

Extraversion: Extraversion depicts an individual’s tendency to look for incitement from the outside world, particularly as consideration from others.

Pleasantness: Pleasantness portrays the degree to which an individual organizes the requirements of others over their own needs.

Neuroticism: Neuroticism portrays an individual’s propensity to react to stressors with negative feelings, including dread, pity, uneasiness, blame, and disgrace.

Some of the strengths of Myers Briggs personality model are: Makes a superior meeting, know an occupation competitor shockingly better, and helps in building better groups. However, the weaknesses of the model are: The test requires some serious energy, it costs cash, and it doesn’t give distinct answers (Quenk, 2009).

Some of the strengths and Weaknesses the big five personality model is: The Big Five model has been concentrated by analysts and is considered to have the most logical legitimacy and unwavering quality. However, because the outcomes are so individual and novel, it tends to be dull to draw general bits of knowledge and exhortation from test results making the pragmatic utilization of the information troublesome (Karim, Zamzuri & Nor, 2009).

References:

Karim, N. S. A., Zamzuri, N. H. A., & Nor, Y. M. (2009). Exploring the relationship between Internet ethics in university students and the big five model of personality. Computers & Education, 53(1), 86-93.

Quenk, N. L. (2009). Essentials of Myers-Briggs type indicator assessment (Vol. 66). John Wiley & Sons.

Schultz, D. P., & Schultz, S. E. (2016). Theories of personality. Cengage Learning.