Introduction

People reveal utmost diversity and variety. They differ in their outlook, emotional volatility, physical appearance and so on. Some people are quiet and passice, while others are loud and aggressive. This leads to the study of personality, which represents a significant aspect of individual differences.

Personality is an important factor influencing an employee's behaviour. Individual traits and attributes reflect an employee's personality. The relationship between supervisor and employees is reflected in their personalities. Some employees are ambitious, others are silent, anxious and amusing. These qualities make make up personalities.

Personality traits reveal various types of persons and therefore predict their behaviour. Personality is a significant variable of behaviour and includes a large number of qualities which cannot be easily changed.

Personality is composed of several characteristics. These characteristics form different personalities that are reflected in behaviour. Personality is influenced by several factors such as family, characteristics, learning, social influences, psychological features, etc.

The unique ways of responding to day-to-day life situations is at the heart of human behaviour. Accordingly, personality embraces all the unique traits and patterns of adjustment of individual in his relationship with others and his environment.

"The sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others."

"It is the most adequate conceptualisation of an individual's behaviour in all its detail which scientist can provide at a moment in time."

"Personality is the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychological systems that determine his unique adjustments to the environment."

"Personality is a stable set of characteristic and tendencies that determine those commonalities and differences in the psychological behaviour (thoughts, feelings and actions) of people that have continuity in time and that may not be easily understood a the sole result of the social and biological pressures of the moment."

"Personality is a unique set of traits and characteristics, relatively stable over time."

"Personality is the study of unique traits of an individual"