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accomplishments; play for fun and relaxation, rather than to exhibit their
superiority at any cost; can relax without guilt.

Proactive Personality Identifies opportunities, shows initiative, take action, and
persevere until meaningful change occurs. Creates positive change in the
environment, regardless or even in spite of constraints or obstacles.

Achieving Person-Job Fit Personality-Job Fit Theory (Holland)Identifies six
personality types and proposes that the fit between personality type and

occupational environment determines satisfaction and turnover.

DETERMINANTS OF PERSONALITY

1. Brain: Brain is one of the most important factors of personality determinant. It is
generally believed that the father and the child adopt almost the same type of brain
stimulation and the later differences are the result of the environment in which the
child has been grown up. Electrical Stimulation of the Brain (ESB) and Split Brain
Psychology (SBP) and the outcomes of genetic transmissions and are the tools that

are used by the management of any organization to mould and amend the employee’s
behavior to a more positive and proper one.

2. Physical Factors: One of the most important factors in determining personality is the
‘Physical Characteristics’ of an individual. It is believed that this factor plays a vital
role in determining one’s behavior in any organization. Physical features may involve

the height of a person (short or tall), his color (white or black), his health status (fat
or skinny) and his beauty (handsome or ugly). These factors are involved when
interacting with any other person and thus contribute in the personality development
in many ways.

3. Heredity Factors: Heredity factors are the ones that are determined at the time of

conception. These factors not only affect the physical features of a person, but the
intelligence level, attentiveness, gender, temperament, various inherited diseases and
energy level, all get affected by them. The example of how heredity factors
determine such a huge and significant part of an individual’s personality can easily
be observed in children. Many children behave exactly how their parents do.
Similarly, twin siblings also have a lot of things in common

4. Cultural Factors: The accepted norms of social behaviour are known as culture.
Culture was traditionally considered as the major determinant of an individual's

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