Personality Attitudes

Summary

Each individual is unique and also has a unique way of thinking and perceiving the world, has its own values, ethics, and abilities; all of these elements form the personality of the individual and makes one different from the others.

The Trait Theory is a theory that summarizes and explains the personality of an individual separating it in 5 traits.

·         Extraversion (social, assertive person)

·         Conscientiousness (hardworking, organized person)

·         Agreeableness (warm, cooperative person)

·         Openness to experience (creative, curious person

·         Emotional stability (calm, self-confident person)

One of the most relevant and known elements of the personality of a person is its Self-Esteem which is the way the individual sees himself both physically and emotionally, this is a determining part in how the individual is going to relate to the others and specially how is he going to work in a group.

Another relevant element that forges the personality of an individual is the Self-Monitoring which is how the other people see you and treat you based initially on how you act, this element goes by the hand with the Self-Esteem because if you don’t start by treating  yourself well, who is going to treat you well.

People won’t tell you everything about themselves right away, so sometimes you have to analyze the person so you can find a way to trait him, this is called Social Perception, the process of interpreting information about other person and its influenced by ourselves as perceiver, the characteristics of the person we are perceiving and the situation where thw interaction takes place. But social perception has some barriers such as stereotyping (standardize a person just because of his social group), self-fulfilling prophecies and selective perception.

Values are beliefs that relates a social group within themselves and goes along with the attitude, who is also one element crucial for ones social interaction and therefore work in an organization, this is a tendency expressed by evaluating an entity with some degree or favor or disfavor; attitudes affect organizations because if the individual doesn’t have a good attitude about his job or doesn’t have the necessary commitment to it, the whole point of the organization, the common goal, is affected because of the low commitment.

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Topic Question

To what do you attribute the success of JICA?

-I attribute the success of JICA to its volunteers because they posses a set of values that allows them to think about helping the other without nothing in return, also their way of perceiving the others as someone that they can help but also learn something from them that will enrich them as persons only thinking about the proper development of the person they are helping.

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