Personality
Why are some people quiet and passive, while others are loud and aggressive? Are certain personality types better adapted than others for certain jobs? Before we can answer these questions, we need to address a more basic one: what is personality?
What Is Personality?
When we speak of someone’s personality, we use many adjectives to describe how they act and seem to think; in fact, research participants used 624 distinct adjectives to describe people they knew.1 As organizational behaviorists, however, we organize characteristics by overall traits describing the growth and development of a person’s personality.
Defining Personality
For our purposes, think of personality as the sum of ways in which an individual reacts to and interacts ...
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