SEMESTER SPRING 2013   ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR MGT502   ASSIGNMENT NUMBER: 01   DUE DATE:  2^ND MAY 2013   TOTAL MARKS: 20   Topic: Personality & Personality Traits   Learning Objectives:

• To make a clear understanding about personality traits

• To make students aware of the fact that Organizations are full of diversity

• Enabling the students to identify the different traits possible in personality to better cope up with them

Scenario Number 1:   Aric International has been a leading Advertising company. The organization enjoys talented people working in, out of which a team of 5 people have brought the greatest achievements to Aric Int. for the past 2 years. Aric has hired you as a Researcher to study those 5 people in-depth to understand the traits they possess. This would certainly help Aric Int. in future to recruit the right people for the right job. The findings that Aric has to provide you in the beginning are as follows;   Ali; the Creative Executive   Ali deals with the creativity of the Ads. His imaginative power has been spotted to be beyond boundaries. The common words about him were that he is very creative, flexible & a person who is always ready to learn something new.   Shahid; the PR specialist   Shahid deals with the social contacts of the company. He has been a networking machine for Aric Int. for 2 years. Colleagues say that he has extraordinary interpersonal skills, a great social network & stays emotionally expressive always.

Akram; the Idea Generator   The new ideas Aric Int. brings out in every Ad is because of Akram’s positive energy of thoughts. He is normally found to be an optimistic person with positive thoughts, less stress & no hyper attitude. He claims that staying positive is one of the main reasons for the generation of great ideas.   Imran; the Planner   Imran is the member who has the responsibility to plan properly in order to prevent poor performance. He has been seen as a person with great organized life, planned motives & a work life full of discipline. Many people had been found calming that they depend upon Imran a lot in their daily routine work.   Zia; the Team Lead   The teams of 5 people do get panic at time, & it has been seen that the Leader Zia always brings a common point for all to agree upon. He was found to be trust worthy, cooperative & good-natured.   Requirement Number 1: Marks: 2×5=10   After going through the scenario & recalling the traits discussed in the Big Five Personality Model, what do you think which trait out of the 5 each person possess individually.   Note: The first column requires to be filled with the traits each person has & the other column has to be filled with the valid reasons you found from the scenario for that specific trait.

  Scenario Number 2:   After 2 years of immense success & joy, Aric Int. has observed a gradual decline in its financial resources. Due to this fact, the organization has proposed “Salary Cutting” plan, less training cost & more working hours per day. Along with all this, the organization still wishes to remain competitive in market. The five people Ali, Akram, Shahid, Imran & Zia have already proven their loyalty towards Aric Int. as the organization also has great confidence in its employees.  Requirement Number 2: Marks: 5×2=10   Note: REMEMBER Students, the Traits of 5 people discussed in Scenario number 1& answer accordingly. Keep your answer’s with in the limit of 50 to 70 words per answer.   Keeping in mind the Traits of each individual you have sorted out in the last requirement, answer the following;

1. Which person out of those five would be most hopeful in such critical situation, while maintaining his dignity by staying cool & calm? Justify your answer with logics you have found from the scenario number 1. Marks: 5

2. Which person out of the five would be most willing to accept the proposed plan of “Salary Cutting”, instead of rising conflict among employees? Justify your answer from the logics you have found from the scenario number 1. Marks: 5

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