True personality and Role personality:
There are two types of personality associated with every individual, one is the true personality and the other is the role personality. The true personality of a person is his true behavior, his true thinking, his conscience and beliefs, his true mindset etc. it is that aspect of an individual, which never changes irrespective of the role, he/she plays.
Take for example, a person who is very rigid in his thinking and who is also very dominant. Such a person’s behavior would not change in whatever kind of situation or circumstances he/ she is put in. These are the people who are born with a kind of personality, they live with that kind of a personality and they die with that kind of a personality.
On the other hand there is something known as a role personality. Every individual has to play a varied number of roles during his/her life span. He may have to play the role of a son, a grandson, a brother, a friend, a husband, a student, a father, a manager, a colleague and several other roles. Every role demands a specific kind of behavior.
Having a same behavior in all the roles may be unacceptable and may be considered odd and vague. No matter what’s the true personality of an individual is, every individual must be willing to change and adopt his/her behavior and attitudes along with the role he/she play’s. A true personality may not be quite different from the role personality, mainly because the role personality evolves from a true personality.
True personality is a source, which guides a person’s behavior in different roles. We see so many managers, all the managers perform the jobs which are more or less of the similar nature, such as planning, organizing, directing, controlling etc, but yet we see no two mangers completely alike. This is mainly because every person has a unique personality, which is unique only to him.
There may be many people alike, but no two individuals would be the same. Thus in the case of managers even though their jobs are of the same nature, their true personalities are different, their approaches of work are different and their personal characteristics and backgrounds may be different. Every human being is gifted with a good intellect and it is with the use of this intellect by way of which an individual can decide what is good or bad for him. Similarly every individual also realizes what kind of behavior is expected in what role and he tries to behave accordingly.
Role personality is like a dual personality. A person tends to be more acceptable when his behavior is in accordance with the group he/she belongs to or the role he / she play’s.
Take for example, that in a group of friends if a person tries to play the role of a father rather than a friend, then his behavior tend to be unacceptable to the group of friends. Thus every behavior should be in accordance with the role one performs. Another aspect of one’s personality is that many a times’ people have a different behavior towards the society and a different behavior at one’s home.
The behavior towards one’s society may many a times be a kind of an artificial behavior, which is done with an intention to impress others. Such kind of a behavior is extremely dangerous because a person tends to behave against his true personality and thus many never derive a sense of satisfaction from his behavior. Thus to conclude we can say that the personality of an individual is a very complex phenomenon, which needs to be dealt very carefully.
There are two types of personality associated with every individual, one is the true personality and the other is the role personality. The true personality of a person is his true behavior, his true thinking, his conscience and beliefs, his true mindset etc. it is that aspect of an individual, which never changes irrespective of the role, he/she plays.
Take for example, a person who is very rigid in his thinking and who is also very dominant. Such a person’s behavior would not change in whatever kind of situation or circumstances he/ she is put in. These are the people who are born with a kind of personality, they live with that kind of a personality and they die with that kind of a personality.
On the other hand there is something known as a role personality. Every individual has to play a varied number of roles during his/her life span. He may have to play the role of a son, a grandson, a brother, a friend, a husband, a student, a father, a manager, a colleague and several other roles. Every role demands a specific kind of behavior.
Having a same behavior in all the roles may be unacceptable and may be considered odd and vague. No matter what’s the true personality of an individual is, every individual must be willing to change and adopt his/her behavior and attitudes along with the role he/she play’s. A true personality may not be quite different from the role personality, mainly because the role personality evolves from a true personality.
True personality is a source, which guides a person’s behavior in different roles. We see so many managers, all the managers perform the jobs which are more or less of the similar nature, such as planning, organizing, directing, controlling etc, but yet we see no two mangers completely alike. This is mainly because every person has a unique personality, which is unique only to him.
There may be many people alike, but no two individuals would be the same. Thus in the case of managers even though their jobs are of the same nature, their true personalities are different, their approaches of work are different and their personal characteristics and backgrounds may be different. Every human being is gifted with a good intellect and it is with the use of this intellect by way of which an individual can decide what is good or bad for him. Similarly every individual also realizes what kind of behavior is expected in what role and he tries to behave accordingly.
Role personality is like a dual personality. A person tends to be more acceptable when his behavior is in accordance with the group he/she belongs to or the role he / she play’s.
Take for example, that in a group of friends if a person tries to play the role of a father rather than a friend, then his behavior tend to be unacceptable to the group of friends. Thus every behavior should be in accordance with the role one performs. Another aspect of one’s personality is that many a times’ people have a different behavior towards the society and a different behavior at one’s home.
The behavior towards one’s society may many a times be a kind of an artificial behavior, which is done with an intention to impress others. Such kind of a behavior is extremely dangerous because a person tends to behave against his true personality and thus many never derive a sense of satisfaction from his behavior. Thus to conclude we can say that the personality of an individual is a very complex phenomenon, which needs to be dealt very carefully.