MGT10BE Introduction to Organizational Behavior: Individual Report

This individual report analyzes organizational behavior and its impact on universities and job satisfaction. It begins with an introduction to organizational behavior, emphasizing its influence on individual and group performance. The report then delves into the five-factor model of personality, detailing the dimensions of openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness, extraversion, and conscientiousness. Each trait is defined, and its implications for job roles and performance are discussed. The second section focuses on self-improvement, using the student's personality assessment scores to identify areas for development. The student reflects on their scores in each trait and outlines strategies for enhancing openness to experience and extraversion. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and highlighting the importance of understanding personality dimensions for work performance and job satisfaction.

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Introduction
This critical analysis will address how organizational behaviors have effects on universities and
the future of job satisfaction. Organization behavior is both individual and group performance
and activity in an organization. This study area examines human behavior in the work
environment and determines its impact on job structure performance, communication,
motivation, leadership, etcetera. Personality is distinguished from person to person with the
enduring pattern of cognition, emotion, and behavior (Roberts, Wood, & Caspi, 2008). In the
first section, I have explained the five dimensions related to job satisfaction. In the second
section, I will discuss my scoring and methods to self-improve in work-related performance.
The five-factor model is one highly influential model that describes the personality structure. The
FFM encloses the dimension of openness to experience, neuroticism, agreeableness,
extraversion, and conscientiousness (McCrae & Costa, 2008).
SECTION:1
Openness to experience
This trait features the characteristics of a person who is enthusiastic, courageous, independent,
creative, open-minded, and cognitive. Individuals high in this trait also have originality, a large
bird’s eye view, and enjoy differences (Costa & McCrae, 1992; Johnson & Ostendorf, 1993).
Individuals low in this trait are often much more traditional, do not like new things, and may
struggle with abstract thinking. This trait of the people will be appropriating the job that requires
creativity and a practical approach to develop new ideas and solves work-related issues.

Neuroticism
Neuroticism is an affective trait that is characterized by sadness, moodiness, grouchiness, and
emotional instability (Costa & McCrae, 1980). Individuals high in this trait tend to experience
mood swings, depression, and desolation. Those low in this trait tend to be more stable and well
prepared for the surroundings where persistent dealing with angry and unpleasant human beings
is required. (Doherty, 1997). The terms “neuroticism” and “negative effect” are interchanged by
a few scholars (Watson & Clark, 1984).) For example, neurotic individuals are most likely to
rely on practical strategies like wishful thinking and withdrawal (Connor-Smith & Flachsbart,
2007. This is because emotional stability is assessed in places that require strong social skills,
especially when dealing with angry and unpleasant individuals.
Agreeableness
This personality dimension includes traits like honesty, trust, affection, and kindness. Individuals
with this trait do not involve in conflicts, have high tolerance power, and are highly forgiving
(McCrae & Costa, 1987). While people who are low in this trait tend to be more cold-hearted,
aggressive, and suspicious.People with agreeableness qualities will have better job opportunities
as they have the appetite to build positive relationships with discourteous people and react well
to their aggressive nature.
Extraversion

Extraverted people have a high intensity of interacting socially and embody the act of
competition and self-confidence (McCrae & Costa, 1987). According to Ashton et al.
(2002),extroverts are outgoing and tend to gain social attention. Introverted peopletend to have
less energy in social situations and are more reserved. For example, extroverted people will have
better performance at a job that requires social skills as they have the energy to put with the
people they work to communicate with and teach.
Conscientiousness
Standard features include discipline, organization, and planning (Costa & McCrae, 1992).
Additionally, conscientious individuals are achievement-oriented, dependable, responsible, and
reliable (Costa & McCrae, 1992). When expressing this dimension, Costa and McCrae (1992)
noted that people with high scores have high aspiration levels and are workaholics whereas
people with low scores disrelish with a schedule that makes things messy and also fails to
complete necessary and assigned tasks. For instance, conscientious employees are more
committed to their work goals compared to low scorers (Barrick, Mount, & Strauss, 1993). As
conscientious employees will perform better in the work environment with attention to detailed
requirements.
SECTION:2 Areas for self-improvement

Solving the questionnaire on ‘Big Five personality traits’ by La Trobe University has to lead to
the scoring of each trait. Based on the scoring, I am on average with a score of 9 in both
openness to experience and extraversion traits and these two traits are quite important for the
future. Then, scoring 10 in conscientiousness told me about my being achievement-orientated.

The agreeable trait has a high score of 11 showing me how maintaining positive relationships at
work will benefit my job performance. Lastly, the highest score of 13 in emotional stability
deemed me about me being enthusiastic and calm in an environment with aggressive people. I
focused on the openness to experience and extraversion trait for the betterment of the future.
SELF-IMPROVEMENT 1
Openness to experience
An average score of 9 requires an improvement. this trait is an important trait when working in a
new environment. This trait plays a key role in developing individuals’ day-to-day habits and
behaviors. this explains to me that I need to adapt to the new exposure to grow better in life.
Stepping out of your comfort zone is what keeps you moving forward in life. one way of
increasing my interest in this trait is exploring things by watching movies, documentaries about
other cultures, and the ones which I find influencing and interesting should then try out which
can be adventurous and risk-taking which are the factors of this trait. This will also boost my
confidence when speaking with a person of the culture I am familiar with. In this way, I will get
open up to new cultures through different visions which I have never experienced before.
Therefore, this mind creates a curiosity in my mind to seek more knowledge and explore more
cultures and societies. This aspect would be very helpful for me, as an international student, it is
very obvious that making new friends in the university is not easy enough due to many
complications like a language barrier or a different culture and lifestyle. But once I get used to
exploring society with a new vision, this problem would not be a major hurdle.
SELF-IMPROVEMENT 2
Extraversion

Similarly, I scored average in this trait. This suggests that I am an introverted person who doesn’t
like social gatherings and prefers to stay alone. To commence with, being an extrovert is a very
helpful trait in one’s social lifestyle. And to have a closer experience of this aspect I would
certainly look forward to unleashing a major portion of my feelings to close friends and family,
talking more about mutual problems, and sharing the joyful moments with my surroundings.
Moreover, interacting more with people in my environment would directly affect the connection
between a teacher and student in the university, by breaking the barriers of communication gap
between them, as many of the students hesitate to ask for queries or discuss some other issues on
the campus with their teachers, just because they are very introvert and feel shy to do.
Conclusion
To conclude, the big five personality dimensions helps individual with the information related to
organizational behavior for work and job-related performance. It plays an important role with
individuals as it helps them understand their goals and achievement and prepares them to get tuff
in difficult and stressful situations. I have the 2 traits to work upon for the enhancement of my
intellectual and work happiness for the future.

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