Organizational
Behavior
WEEK EIGHT
2
What are emotions & moods
Emotional Intelligence
Agenda OB applications of Emotion & Moods
What is personality
The Myers-Briggs type Indicator
Importance of Values
Emotions
Feelings experienced towards an object, person or event
that create a state of readiness
Why Emotions Were Ignored in OB
• The “myth of rationality”
Organizations are not emotion-free.
• Emotions of any kind are disruptive to organizations.
What Are Emotions?
Affect
A broad range of emotions that
people experience.
Emotions Moods
Intense feelings that are directed Feelings that tend to be less
at someone or something. intense than emotions and that
lack a contextual stimulus.
Emotion Dimensions
• Variety of emotions
Positive
Negative
• Intensity of emotions
Personality
Job Requirements
• Frequency and duration of emotions
How often emotions are exhibited.
How long emotions are displayed.
Six Universal Emotions
Happiness Fear Anger
Surprise Sadness Disgust
Emotional Intelligence
EI refers to an assortment of non-cognitive skills,
capabilities, and competencies that influence a person’s
ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands
and pressures.
Emotional intelligence dimensions
Self-
awareness
Social Self-
skill Emotional regulation
intelligence
Self-
Empathy
motivation
OB Applications of Understanding Emotions
• Ability and Selection
• Decision Making
• Motivation
• Leadership
• Interpersonal Conflict
• Deviant Workplace Behaviors
Emotions In The Workplace
Intensity Frequency
of Emotions and Duration
Gender Emotionless
and Emotions People
What is personality?
Relatively stable pattern of behaviours and consistent
internal states that explain a person's behavioural
tendencies.
Mean how people affect others and how they understand
and view themselves, as well as their pattern of inner and
outer measurable traits and
Person-situation interaction
What is personality?
Heredity Environment Situation
The Myers-Briggs Framework
This framework differentiates people in terms of four
general dimensions: sensing, intuiting, judging, and
perceiving. Higher and lower positions in each of the
dimensions are used to classify people into one of sixteen
different personality categories.
Values
• Values are broad preferences concerning appropriate
courses of action or outcomes.
• Values influence behavior and attitudes.
Importance of Values
• Values generally influence attitudes and behavior
Behavior
Motivation
Perceptions
Attitudes
Values
Sources of values.
• Parents.
• Friends.
• Teachers.
• Role models.
• External reference groups.
Work values.
• Achievement (career advancement)
• Concern for others (compassionate behavior)
• Honesty (provision of accurate information)
• Fairness (impartiality)