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Gloryuc (talk) 18:37, 26 February 2014 (UTC)                           ' ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

PERSONALITY

Is organized and distinctive trait that characterizes a person’s adaptation to the environment over time. Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. Personality is made up those complex processes that characterize a man - these processes involve our interaction with the environment and also the situation at hand. Personality is unique, physical or psychological, Personality is both stable and dynamic, and most of all personality is consistent. Finally, Personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that make an individual unique.

PERSONALITY TRAITS THAT AFFECT BEHAVIOUR AT WORK

1.	Core self esteem: Is the extent to which a person believes that he or she is a worth while and deserving individual. A person with high self esteem is more likely to seek high status jobs, be more confident in his ability to achieve higher levels of performance and derive greater intrinsic satisfaction from his accomplishments. In contrast a person with less self esteem may be more content to remain in a lower level job, be less confident of his/her ability. Self esteem is an individual’s degree of likeness for self. The kind of value a person allots to self. 2.	Locus of Control: Is the extent to which people believe that their behavior has a real effect on what happens to them. Some people believe for example, if they work hard they will succeed. This goes a long way to determine how we take responsibility of our own actions. 3.	Narcissism: People with such traits have great self image of themselves. They think they are indispensible, they over rate and over estimate themselves. 4.	Risk Propensity: Is the degree to which an individual is ready to take chances and make risky decisions. Managers with high risk propensity would be expected to experiment with new ideas and gamble with new products. He/she may lead the organizational to a new different direction and level. On the other hand a manager with low risk propensity might lead to a stagnant or overly conservative organization

FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PERCEPTION

1.	Characteristics of the perceiver: This refers to the internal n external traits of the individual perceiving. The individual’s interest, attitude, expectation, need, experience can all influence or affect perception. For example if a person’s experience has taught him/her that colour red is denotes danger, then perceiving any one with that colour would already be influenced or affect by experience. 2.	Characteristics of the perceived: Factors such as background, similarity, age, sex, height, weight, attire of the perceived object can also influence perception. 3.	Characteristics of the situation: This is a very important factor to perception. The situation in which perception occurs, the context in which humans perceive an object can influence perception.