Personality Traits that Affect How Managers Think, Feel and Behave

By: Juneza Barrera

Every individual has his own characteristic way of behaving, responding to emotions,

perceiving things and looking at the world. No two individuals are similar. Personality is

nothing but the aggregate conglomeration of memories and incidents in an individual’s

entire life span. Environmental factors, family background, financial conditions, genetic

factors, situations and circumstances also contribute to an individual’s personality. In a

layman’s language, how we behave in our day to day lives reflects our personality. How

an individual behaves depends on his family background, upbringing, and social status

and so on. Personality also influences what we think, our beliefs, values and

expectations. What we think about others depends on our personality. Personality is

defined as the personal qualities and characteristics of an individual. Personality is how

we interact with others. Personality is a sum of characteristics of an individual which

makes him different from the others. It is our personality which makes us unique and

helps us stand apart from the crowd.

According to World count, Agreeableness is one of the “super traits” in the Big Five

model of personality. People who score high on agreeableness are very trustworthy,

altruistic, honest, modest, empathetic, and cooperative which broadly categorizes

aspects of our personality. From the word “agree”, you get the impression that this trait

means you often agree with everyone and everything around you. That description is

pretty close, but there’s more to this super trait than that. In Psychology, agreeableness

measures your tendency to be kind, empathetic, trusting, cooperative, and sympathetic.

It shows you how well you harmonize with society. As the Wikipedia state,

Agreeableness is a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral

characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm and

considerate. Agreeableness is the way in order to have a smooth relationship to others.

In the moment we understand and agree with others opinion the sense of friendship

build suddenly but sometimes this is the cause to arise some misunderstanding

between each other.

Psychology says that Conscientiousness is not just about getting to church on time, in a

freshly ironed suit. It's a fundamental personality trait that influences whether people set

and keep long-range goals, deliberate over choices or behave impulsively, and takes

seriously obligations to others. Conscientiousness is a key ingredient for success, but

the off-the-charts conscientious may court perfectionism by setting sights too high.

Conscientiousness is about how a person controls, regulates, and directs their

impulses. Individuals with a high level of conscientiousness on a career test are good at

formulating long-range goals, organizing and planning routes to these goals, and

working consistently to achieve them. Despite short-term obstacles they may encounter.

Other people usually perceive a conscientious personality type as a responsible and

reliable person. As a person, being conscientiousness is very important aside from

being careful we must be vigilant not only in ourselves but also to our environment.

Extraversion (E). Carl Jung, the first to introduce extraversion, argued that a person's

libido, or sexual energy can flow in one of two different directions-either outward toward

the world or inward toward the self. For the extravert, the energy flows toward objects

and people in the world, the opposite is the introvert where their energy flows toward the

subjective world that lies within (McAdams 308). A person high in extraversion is high in

gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, seeks excitement, and has positive emotions

(McAdams 306). According to Stephanie Foley, Extraversion has become one of the

basic personality types on most major personality tests. An extravert is high on

socialibility, talkativeness, energy and assertiveness. Extraversion is the personality

traits that I need to develop as a human being. I’m lack of confident to show what I’ve

got as a student but as I learn personality traits especially extraversion it lightens my

mind to boost my confidence and don’t let anyone bring you down.

I conclude that personal traits are one factor affects our performance as an

individual.We must be personally prepared every results of our action. It is important to

enhance and to show who really we are.

REFERENCES

.http://www.theworldcounts.com/life/potentials/define-agreeableness-personality-trait

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness

https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/conscientiousness

https://www.123test.com/personality-conscientiousness/

Stephanie Foley http://www.study.com/extraversion

Carl Jung http://www.study.com/extraversion