1. Organizational Behavior Professor Rhonda Shannon
Welcome to MT302
Organizational Behavior
Professor Rhonda Shannon
Unit 3 Seminar – Personality, Values, Perception and Decision Making
This seminar is being recorded

2. Unit 3 Agenda General Questions and Announcements Introduction
Determine Individual’s Personality
Discuss how differences in perceptions affect individuals’ decision making process
Examine ethical decision making processes
Recap of Today’s Seminar and Unit
What is new for next week

3. Unit 2 Quick review Diversity in an organization Attitude
Job satisfaction

4. Any questions ?

5. Unit 3 Outcomes During this unit we will:
Explain the factors that determine an individual’s personality
Define “values” and name some dominant values in today’s workforce
Describe differences in perception and how they affect the decision-making process

6. What is a personality? Why is it necessary to study personality in Organizational Behavior?

7. Personality is:
The psychological qualities that influence an individual’s characteristic behavior patterns in a broadly distinctive and consistent manner, across different situations and through time.

8. Frameworks used to describe personality:
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Big Five Model

9. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Extraversion
(E)
Introversion
(I)
Get projects done quickly
Work on projects for a long time
Energizing
Sensing
(S)
Intuition
(N)
Apply Skills already perfected
Always seeking new skills
Perceiving
Thinking
(T)
Feeling
(F)
Use logical analysis to reach conclusions
Use Intuition to reach conclusions
Deciding
Judging
(J)
Perceiving
(P)
Enjoy organizing and finishing tasks
Not organized and have few finished tasks
Living

10. The Big Five Model of Personality Dimensions
Extroversion Level of sociability and enthusiasm Agreeableness Level of friendliness and kindness Conscientiousness Level of organization and work ethic Emotional Stability Level of calmness and tranquility Openness to Experience Level of creativity and curiosity

11. What are some values in your organization?

12. Values
Mode of conduct or end state is personally or socially preferable (i.e. what is right and good)
Value System: A hierarchy based on a ranking of an individual’s values in terms of their intensity.

13. Types of Values
Terminal Values:
Desirable end-states of existence; the goals that a person would like to achieve during his or her lifetime.
Instrumental Values:
Preferable modes of behavior or means of achieving one's terminal values

14. Value differences between groups

15. Approximate Current Age
Generational Values
Cohort
Entered Workforce
Approximate Current Age
Dominant Work Values
Veterans
65+
Hard working, conservative, conforming; loyalty to the organization
Boomers
40-60s
Success, achievement, ambition, dislike of authority; loyalty to career
Xers
20-40s
Work/life balance, team-oriented, dislike of rules; loyalty to relationships
Nexters
2000-Present
Under 30
Confident, financial success, self-reliant but team-oriented; loyalty to both self and relationships
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16. What would you think perception is when related to an organization?

17. Perception is: A way of conceiving something
The process of perceiving and the way of conceiving something
Perception is the process of acquiring, interpreting, selecting and organizing sensory information.
Perception is the way we react for any particular situation.

18. Factors Influencing Perception
Perceiver
Attitudes, motives, interests, experiences, expectations
Target
Novelty, motions, sounds, size, background, proximity, similarity
Situation
Time, work setting social situation

19. General Decision-making Stages
Identifying and diagnosing the problem
Making the Choice
Implementing
Generating alternative solutions
Evaluation
Evaluating alternatives

20. Recap of Today’s Seminar and Unit
Values
Perception
Items due this week are:
Discussion (30 points)
Learning Activity (5 points)
NO ASSIGNMENT THIS WEEK

21. Next Week: Unit 4 – Motivation Concepts & Application

22. Any questions ?

23. Please don’t hesitate to email or call me if you have questions.
Instructor Contact Information
Professor Rhonda Shannon. MBA (Eastern Time Zone)
Phone: (317)
Cell: (317)
AIM:
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24. You are always welcome to listen to the archives after the Seminar.
Reminders
Also, don’t forget I will be posting my PowerPoint out on doc sharing and will also be ing you it as well.
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25. Thanks for attending seminar I look forward to seeing you next week.
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