Importance of Personality

 

Personality is a set of distinctive individual characteristics, including motives, emotions, values, interests, attitudes, ancompetencies. It  is  a  stable set  of  characteristics representing internal  properties of  an  individual, which  are  reflectein  behavioral tendencies across a variety of situations.

 

It determines an employee’s fitment in terms of personality, attitude and general work style. In managing the day-to-day challenges, it is the personality of the people involved that affects the decisions taken in an organization. For example, a manager who cannot motivate his staff positively risks the integrity of the team which directly impacts the quality of service resulting in low productivity.

 

A managers personality greatly impacts motivation, leadership, performance, and conflict. The more understanding a manager has on how personality in organizational behavior works, the better equipped he will be to bring out the best in people and situation.