A Review: Personality and Perception

Last week, i have discussed Personality and Perception and from these topics, we have to remember several important points that we maybe useful to us as we go through life.

1. Personality is multidimensional. As such, our focus must be balanced among all these features. Few of us overly PAMPERED physical dimension, always focusing on the features that people see. What we have to remember is that, while physical is important, it must not overshadow other aspects of our personality like intellecual, social, spiritual and emotional. To do so would produce person who is not balance: beautiful but intellectually bankrupt; handsome but without good character; beautiful face but emotionally retarded; or handsome but socially inadequate.

2. Person as we can see is active in process. He is either changed by situations or he changes the situation. In essence, he could be a passive recipient of the environmental stimulus or an active agent of environmental change. If negative situations arise, one can react in two ways: 1. he can be so angry or be as negative as the situation or 2. he may turn the situation into positive one.

3. There are several personality characteristics that we may see on in organizations. They are as follows:
a. Locus of control- this is our ability to be the master of what happens to us. It's either we completely control our actions (internal) or other people or cicumstances control what happens to us (external)

more on this in my next blog...