Personality in Organizational Behavior | Report

Running Head: PERSONALITY IN ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR
PERSONALITY IN ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR
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Introduction
This assignment will focus on the personality traits of organisational behaviour
theory. The paper has discussed on the concept of big-five personality dimensions of
organisational behaviour theory. The contribution of personality dimensions towards an
individual self-improvement skills are also discussed in this paper. The main objective of this
paper is to analyse the personality attributes of an individual.
Discussion
Organisational Behavior theory
Organisational behaviour theory helps to study the behaviour of human resources in
an organisational environment. This is studied to understand the behaviour of diverse
working environment. Different individual have different behaviour in terms of attitude,
personality, ethics and belief.
Personality
Personality is the different ways in which an individual interacts & reacts with other
individuals. Personality includes the various traits like aggressiveness, ambitious, loyal, shy
and lazy an individual exhibits. Personality is the most important factor that indicates the
behaviour of an individual (Deesilatham & Hosany, 2018). Organisational behaviour theory
of personality determines the required behaviour of an individual towards other individual in
the workplace.
The big-five personality traits
This theory is mostly used by the Human Resource Managers to help the employees
in the workplace. These are known as big-five personality dimensions that are considered as

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the underlying traits an individual should have within their overall personality. The big-five
personality dimensions includes the following traits:
1. Openness- These are those individual who are always exposed to learn new
experiences & new things. They are always opened to learn new things. For this, an
individual must have the traits of imaginative & insightful and should have interests
to do a particular thing (McShane et al., 2018). This type of traits mainly indicates
how an individual is challenging and open-minded.
Example: This type of traits in an employee will allow them to make innovations and
do research on new things. They are always involved in taking challenging responsibility of
the work.
2. Conscientiousness- These type of individual are always prompt & reliable in their
work. For exhibiting this feature, an individual must have the traits of being methodic,
thorough & organised. This type of traits indicates to what extend an individual is
organised and self-disciplined.
Example- This type of employees are well organised in their work. They plan their
deadlines and do their work accordingly.
3. Extraversion- An extraversion individual is always energetic, assertive and talkative.
This type of traits indicates how much social & out-going an individual exhibits in
themselves (Alabdulhadi, Schyns & Staudigl, 2017).
Example: This type of individual are more comfortable to work in groups and meet
with new people. They are more interested with social gathering & are full energy.
4. Agreeableness- This type of individual are very friendly, compassionate &
cooperative. An individual with this of personality should be kind, sympathetic and