HCM 433 MANGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR.pdf

elate to the social stimulus value of an individual in which he presents himself to a significant
others.
Summarily therefore personality represents the phenotype in an expression the genotype essence
of man, that part of him that is most representative. It is therefore regarded as consisting relatively
long lasting behaviour patterns that yield fairly consistent reactions to different – situations e.g. if
an individual is aggressive or authoritarian, we may no the long run find out that he is kind and
which may turn out to be the most representation of him and which differentiated him from other
people.
Like if a person appears persistent by aggressive it may be as a result of his being in a consistently
frustrating situation which can evoke aggressiveness or aggressive behaviour in any one. To that
extent aggressiveness is not his personality meaning that for a person’s personality to be
determined he must watched over a long period of time especially form adolescent to adulthood
because a persons personality becomes predictable as he moves or passed from adolescent to
adulthood.
3.2 DETERMINATION OF PERSONALITY
Various factors have been listed as responsible for the determination of personality.
1. His inherited body constitution, that is, physiological make-up (genetic inheritance)
2. Social or Cultural determinant
3. Roles determinant
4. Situational determinants.
1. Inherited Body Constitution
It has been urged and tested that certain ongoing biological processes in the body account for
personality, This is why in treatment a psychiatric patient (megalomanian or psychic
maladjustment) it is first established whether or not there have been an organic damage.
Many studies have been taken also to test that certain genes contribute to the development illness
in people. Some others like Williams Sheldod have used the physical appearance of people to
determine their personality types like endomorphic and ectomorphic personality.
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