What is personality? What are its major determinants?

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Organizational Behavior

Concepts of Personality

Personality is the major factor that influences individual behaviour in an organization. To understand the behaviour of an individual or a person, one must be familiar about personality. By understanding the personality, behavior can be directed and controlled. Personality does not mean handsome and ugliness of human being. Instead, it is the aggregate form of traits, qualities and features of an individual. It is concerned with reaction and interaction of individual and situation. Thus, personality represents personal characteristics that lead to consistent patterns of behaviors.

Major Determinants of Personality

Is the personality predetermined at birth itself? Or is it the result of Individual’s interaction with one's environment? Strictly speaking, there is no clear-cut answer to this question. 

Different thinkers of personality have listed different determinants I of personality. In this regard, the major determinants of personality are explained briefly:

  1. Heredity factors: Personality is the aggregates form of traits, qualities and features of human beings. Individuals have unique genes and chromosomes. Most of the characteristics of our parents are transmitted to us through genes and chromosomes. Thus, heredity approach says that personality is the muscular structure of genes.
    1. Environmental factors: Personality is influenced by environmental factors also. For example, Le us suppose, someone is grown in an open society where talking with strangers

    without a feel of shyness is common norm. Such environment is instrumental in developing a personality that can speak with confidence. On the contrary rural children may hesitate in talking with anyone as they are brought up in a narrow society.

  3. Situational factor: Another key determinant that shape personality is situation. Situation affects heredity and environment traits of people changes as per situation.
  4. Experience in life: Whether one trusts or mistrusts others, is miserly or generous, has a high or low self-esteem, and the like is at least partially related to the past experience the individual has had. For example, a person who has been betrayed time and again would take time to trust a new person. His personality will develop in such a way that he will look to people with a suspect eye.
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Bijay Satyal
Bijay Satyal
Oct 28, 2021
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