Importance of Personality

Personality is a set of distinctive individual characteristics, including motives, emotions, values, interests, attitudes, and  competencies. It is a stable set of characteristics representing internal properties of an individual, which are reflected  in 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 manager’s 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.