What does the word pleasing personality mean and why is it given that much importance in the hiring of personnel?
WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
Personality is the sum total of the biological, psychological, socio-cultural and other traits of a person, manifested in the way he thinks, feels, acts and related with others.
From Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindsey in Theories of Personality.
For Conklin C, it is a fairly stable configuration of feelings, attitudes, ideas and behavior that characterize an individual, making from unique and different from others.
Gordon Allport defined personality as collection of traits that determine a person's unique adjustment to his environment. Each person is made up of determining tendencies that play as active role in his behavior. Personality is what lies behind the specific acts of a person.
Alfred Adler in his Social Psychological Theory stressed the uniqueness of personality. Each person, according to him has unique configuration of motives, traits, values and interest. Every act performed by the person bears the stamp of his/her own distinctive lifestyle.
DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY
Behavioral experts agree that personality is a
product of nature and nurture, an integration of his biological and social heritage. What a person thinks, does and feels as a child, adolescent or adult results from the inter relationship that exists between biologically inherited factors and environmental influences.
1. Heredity
Genes transmitted by parents determine a person's physical and biological characteristics such as physical stature, color of the skin and hair. There are controversial viewpoints as to whether intelligence(capacity for mental development) and aptitude(capacity for developing mental and social skills) are also inherited. However, some evidences show that some kids learn faster than others, and there are also who are more reactive than others.
Some individual excel in physical qualities; others are physically handicapped like the blind, dumb, deaf and autistic persons. However, it does not follow that a person with biological or physical deficiency is also handicapped from developing a good or pleasing personality. There are many success stories of blind and handicapped people who became good singers and well known artists. One the other hand, many people with pleasing physical features, high intelligence and other inherited traits end up as failure in their career and became miserable.
2. The Social Environment
The social environment consists of individuals, groups and institutions with whom the person interacts with from childhood to adulthood. It is from these individuals and groups that a person learns and acquires and a set of beliefs, values, attitudes and other socio-cultural characteristics through a process known as socialization.
Individuals and groups in one's social environment exert varying degrees of influence upon a person. Of greatest influence are significant people who serve as a model for patterning one's behavior and a major source of need satisfaction. In Sociology, they are referred to as "significant others". Foremost among them are parents or guardian, peers, teachers and other people or groups to whom the individual belong.
The socialization process starts with the child's first contact, his family. From the parents, siblings and relatives, the person learns his first lessons of love, honesty and other fundamental virtues, as well as other qualities. Much of our behavioral tendencies appear to be a replica of our parents. Being the first agent of socialization, the family provides the foundation
for personal development.
In the later years of life, the individual comes into contact with peers, schoolmates, teachers and other groups from whom he acquires new set of ideas, beliefs, values and attitudes. Nowadays, many peer groups exert even greater influence than parents.
As the individual moves through life, he comes across more and more individuals, groups and institutions. Among them are church groups, professional and civic groups, new set of friends, etc. From them he discovers and learns another set of socio cultural characteristics that may even run counter to what he has learned in the early years of his life. Nowadays, the media has been a powerful force in influencing young people minds and lifestyle. Likewise, the church, through its spiritual ministry has been making a big contribution in facilitating a change in people's paradigms, attitudes and values. It has also helped many individuals find meaning in their existence.
WHAT IS PERSONALITY?
Personality is the sum total of the biological, psychological, socio-cultural and other traits of a person, manifested in the way he thinks, feels, acts and related with others.
From Calvin S. Hall and Gardner Lindsey in Theories of Personality.
For Conklin C, it is a fairly stable configuration of feelings, attitudes, ideas and behavior that characterize an individual, making from unique and different from others.
Gordon Allport defined personality as collection of traits that determine a person's unique adjustment to his environment. Each person is made up of determining tendencies that play as active role in his behavior. Personality is what lies behind the specific acts of a person.
Alfred Adler in his Social Psychological Theory stressed the uniqueness of personality. Each person, according to him has unique configuration of motives, traits, values and interest. Every act performed by the person bears the stamp of his/her own distinctive lifestyle.
DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY
Behavioral experts agree that personality is a
product of nature and nurture, an integration of his biological and social heritage. What a person thinks, does and feels as a child, adolescent or adult results from the inter relationship that exists between biologically inherited factors and environmental influences.
1. Heredity
Genes transmitted by parents determine a person's physical and biological characteristics such as physical stature, color of the skin and hair. There are controversial viewpoints as to whether intelligence(capacity for mental development) and aptitude(capacity for developing mental and social skills) are also inherited. However, some evidences show that some kids learn faster than others, and there are also who are more reactive than others.
Some individual excel in physical qualities; others are physically handicapped like the blind, dumb, deaf and autistic persons. However, it does not follow that a person with biological or physical deficiency is also handicapped from developing a good or pleasing personality. There are many success stories of blind and handicapped people who became good singers and well known artists. One the other hand, many people with pleasing physical features, high intelligence and other inherited traits end up as failure in their career and became miserable.
2. The Social Environment
The social environment consists of individuals, groups and institutions with whom the person interacts with from childhood to adulthood. It is from these individuals and groups that a person learns and acquires and a set of beliefs, values, attitudes and other socio-cultural characteristics through a process known as socialization.
Individuals and groups in one's social environment exert varying degrees of influence upon a person. Of greatest influence are significant people who serve as a model for patterning one's behavior and a major source of need satisfaction. In Sociology, they are referred to as "significant others". Foremost among them are parents or guardian, peers, teachers and other people or groups to whom the individual belong.
The socialization process starts with the child's first contact, his family. From the parents, siblings and relatives, the person learns his first lessons of love, honesty and other fundamental virtues, as well as other qualities. Much of our behavioral tendencies appear to be a replica of our parents. Being the first agent of socialization, the family provides the foundation
for personal development.
In the later years of life, the individual comes into contact with peers, schoolmates, teachers and other groups from whom he acquires new set of ideas, beliefs, values and attitudes. Nowadays, many peer groups exert even greater influence than parents.
As the individual moves through life, he comes across more and more individuals, groups and institutions. Among them are church groups, professional and civic groups, new set of friends, etc. From them he discovers and learns another set of socio cultural characteristics that may even run counter to what he has learned in the early years of his life. Nowadays, the media has been a powerful force in influencing young people minds and lifestyle. Likewise, the church, through its spiritual ministry has been making a big contribution in facilitating a change in people's paradigms, attitudes and values. It has also helped many individuals find meaning in their existence.