MBA 400PEOPLE AND ORGANISATION  (Assignment 2)   Lecturer : Dr. Shawn Wong Student’s Name : Mohammed Atik Student ID Number : 0912/6094 Submission Date : 19/10/2010

Content

• Introduction•About personality•Entrepreneur quality •Model – 1•Model - 2•Model -3•Conclusion •Reference's

Introduction • My personal intention and eagerness for doing

this assignment is to make myself understand the term personality, how personality affects behavior and what qualities of Narayan Murthy made him successful.

• In this report everything is concerned with the personality, behavior, attitude, and value system of Mr. Narayan Murthy and also how he makes Infosys count in Top IT Company

About the personality• Personality is the figure overall of ways by which a human

being respond and intermingle with others(Robbins, 2009). • This has been a happy, intense, rewarding and exhilarating

journey of 25 years.” said by Narayan Murthy • Born on august 20, 1946 in Kannada Madhva Brahmin

family in Mysore.• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering From University Of

Mysore• Master’s in Technology from IIT Kanpur• Founder of Infosys • He also serves as the director on the Central board of RBI

ENTREPRENEURSHIP QUALITIES

• We can say that a person can be good entrepreneur if his key traits are risk taking, creativity, leadership, and motivation etc. only after evaluating his personality(Chauvin, 2005).

• Self leadership• Confidence• Communication• Knowledge• Respect• Vision• Attitude

Model no 1•EXTRAVERSION• Murthy is very friendly and socialite person(, 2000). He always

raises his voice for social issues in India as election, poverty, unemployment etc. He is also a part of various education institutes of India as well as of foreign countries

• Extraversion represents the tendency to be sociable assertive, active and to experience positive affect, of leadership style. This article provides a qualitative review of the trait perspective in leadership research (Timothy, Remus, Joyce &Megan)

• Extraverts are described as assertive, active, talkative, upbeat, energetic, and optimistic (Costa & McCrae,1992)

• Extraversion have to composed of two components affiliation, and agency Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and NEO Five-Factor (NEO-FFI) Inventory Professional Manual. Odessa, FL: PAR.

Model no 2

•AGREEABLENESS• Undoubtedly Murthy is a person who is good natured and

cooperative because he manages to make Infosys a successful company through the proper understanding with other founders of Infosys(Murthy, 2009).

• Trust is the foundation of leadership • Agreeableness represents the tendency to be cooperative,

trusting, gentle, and kind (Graziano & Eisenberg,1997)

Model no 3• OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE• Narayan Murthy is a person who is eager to increase his

knowledge as we can understand that in 1970s computer field was new and not a secure one but he choose that because of his tendency to amplify the understanding. (Murthy, 2009).

• openness to experience should be indicative of creativity and originality; consequently(Hurtz, G. M., & Donovan, J. J. (2000).

Charismatic Leadership Style

•Trust is the foundation of leadership. •Visionary in his approach.•High influence on employees.•“Employees satisfaction leads to

organization’s success.”•Dedication and commitment towards

work, highly ethical, hard working.

Participative style of leadership

•Believes in employee participation.•Arranges meetings and conferences at a

regular interval with employees.•Shares authority & responsibility with the

employees.•Encourages ideas and suggestions given

by the employee- Eg Suggesstion box

Conclusions

•After analyzing Narayan Murthy’s personality, values and attitude I came to know that a person can became successful only if he has good personality, value and attitude. Narayan Murthy is a person who took risk, did hard work, being patient for results, and cooperative; these qualities of his personality made him successful

Recommendation

•Analyzing a personality can be a very interesting as well as very challenging job at the same time. To analyze personality a person should not have any perception or anticipation and he should study proper about that person’s personal and corporate life to find out different aspect of that person

References • Murthy, N. (2009). A Better India:A Better World. Penguin Books

India Pvt. Ltd., 11, Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi• Robbins, S. P., Judge, T. A., & Sanghi, S. (2009). Organizational

Behaviour. Chennai: Dorling Kindersley (india) Pvt. Ltd• Chauvin, B., Hermand, D., & Mullet, E. (2005). Risk Perception and

Personality Facets. Risk Analysis : An International Journal• Values First. (2000). Retrieved 10 11, 2010, from india-

seminar.com http://www.india- seminar.com/2000/485/485%20interview.htm

• Judge, t.A., Bono, J.E., llies, R. & Gerhardt, M.w., 2002. A qualitative and quantitative rewiew. Personality and Leadership, 87(the American Psychological Association, Inc), p.768.

• Hurtz, G. M., & Donovan, J. J. (2000). Personality and job performance: The Big Five revisited. Journal of Applied Psychology, 85, 869-879.

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