1. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-1 Chapter 8 Personality

2. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-2 Chapter Goals  The goal of this chapter is to explore how leadership leads to ethical dilemmas where our ethics, values, and attitudes are directly involved.

3. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-3 Personality has two meanings:  The first meaning refers to the impression a person makes on others.  The second meaning refers to the unseen structures and processes inside a person that explain why we behave the way we do.

4. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-4 “Big Five” model of personality

5. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-5 “Big Five” model of personality Cont.

6. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-6 Big Five Model  Advantages of the Big Five Model  Most personality researchers currently use one form of the Big Five Model.  The model is usefully categorized.  It is a useful heuristic for categorizing or profiling people.  It appears to be universally applicable across cultures.

7. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-7 Big Five Model  Disadvantages of the Big Five Model  Some argue that five factors are not enough to adequately encompass all the different personality traits.  The Big Five personality dimensions tend to be fairly heterogeneous internally, which makes them poor predictors of job performance as compared to personality traits. Cont.

8. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-8 Dark-side Personality Traits  Dark-side personality traits are irritating or counterproductive behavioral tendencies which interfere with a leader’s ability to form cohesive teams and cause followers to exert less effort towards goal accomplishment.

9. Irwin/McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. © 1999 Slide 8-9 Personality Traits  Preferences distinguish one personality from another, based on four basic dimensions:  extraversion-and-introversion  sensing-and-intuition  thinking-and-feeling  judging-and-perceiving