VUCA

Personality
 List personality
types you learned
in your HR/OB
classes
 Which ones are relevant for VUCA?

INDIVIDUALLY, PAIR & SHARE WRITE AND PAIR

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Now, think of your XLRI admission test
and interview?

INDIVIDUALLY: WHAT PAIR & SHARE WRITE AND PAIR

PERSONALITY TRAITS YOU (CTRL+CLICK)
THINK SAW YOU THROUGH?
What is Big-Five Personality

• Defines personality
as “dimensions of
individual
differences in the
tendency to show
consistent patterns
of thoughts, feelings,
and behavior”
(McCrae & Costa,
1990, p. 23).
Big-Five

• Openness to Experience
• Leads to flexibility
• Conscientiousness
• Leads to awareness and
surveillance
• Extraversion
• Helps in social skills
• Neuroticism ??
• Agreeableness ??
 AC dimensions are a set of complex skills
acquired in the course of training, that
determines the effective performance of
Managerial work duties based on the individual’s
knowledge, experience and predispositions
Assessment manifested in behavior patterns.

Center (AC)
Simulations
(Baczynska,
2015) Measured by Assessment Center (AC)
simulations
• Measures the following:

• Social skills

• Problem solving,
Management and goal
striving

• Openness to change

• Employee development
 Stability

Positive Plasticity
personality
meta-traits Integration

Self-restraint
Negative Personality Metatraits

Disinhibition

Passiveness

Disharmony

Sensation
seeking
 Generates confidence to face
different kinds of challenges

For example, research shows that

technological changes (VUCA
Self-efficacy climate) have early adopters with
high self-efficacy go for those
changes.

Let us link it with +ve & -ve

personality metatraits?
 Broadening of mindset to
generate many remotely
connected ideas and draw
connections among them
Ability to (Amabile, 1996).

be Creative Ability to produce novel

solutions (processes, products,
services etc.) for challenges
faced
Resilience

The study identified 201

She led a 40-year study of
children as "highly at risk"
This research started with children born on the
due to factors such as
Werner Hawaiian island of Kauai in
poverty, perinatal stress,
1955.
and parental mental illness.

Findings: the children who

survived, and even thrived, Protective factors that
were those who were helped children at risk
She defined resilience as
somehow able to maintain a develop into resilient adults:
the ability to cope with
positive outlook. 1/3 rd of strong bonds with
internal and external
the children at high risk nonparental caretakers and
stresses.
developed into competent, involvement in community
confident, and caring groups.
adults.
Resilience -
• What is it?
• It is the process of negotiating, managing and
adapting to significant sources of stress or trauma
(Windle, Bennett & Noyes, 2011).

• Ability to ‘bounce back’ from adversities and

stressful events

• Masten (2011) presents resilience as the capacity

of a dynamic system to withstand or recover from
significant challenges that threaten its stability,
viability, or development.

• What is the meaning of a dynamic system here?

Is there a relationship
between Resilience and
Creativity
Yes / No Vote
How much
resilient are you?

• The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) is

one of the highest rated resilience scales
used in research. It is a 33-item self-
report scale for measuring protective
resilience factors among adults (see
Appendix A). There are six factors in the
RSA: perception-of-self, planned future,
social competence, structured style,
family cohesion, and social resources.
• Revised Ego Resilience Scale
• ER89-R) by Alessandri et al. (2008) was
administered to evaluate trait
psychological resilience (see Appendix
B). This scale is comprised of 10 items,
each answered according to a 4-point
Likert scale, ranging from 1 = does not
apply at all to 4 = applies very strongly.

From creativity and resilience IRB

proposal
Measurement:
Creativity
• Revised Creativity Domain
Questionnaire (CDQ-R)
Creativity Scale
• By Kaufman, (2009). It has four
factors – Math/Science, Drama,
Interaction, and Arts. It measures
self-assessed creativity across these
different domains
 • The AUT (Guilford, 1967) consists of providing individuals with an
object (in this case, a tire) and instructing them to write down all the

Alternate possible uses for that object they can think of in 4 minutes. In order to
produce Top 2 subjective quality scores (Silvia et al, 2008), after the 4
minutes have finished, individuals will be prompted to select the two
Uses Task responses they provided which they think are the “most creative”.
They will have 1 minute for this selection process (to give time for
deliberation).

Remote
• The 5-item RAT (Mednick, 1962) is a measure of associative processing
in creative problem-solving. Individuals are given three semantically
unrelated words, then asked to produce a fourth word which combines
Associates with each of the three to create new words (e.g. words given: sauce,
crab, pine; solution: apple- which produces applesauce, crabapple, and

Test
pineapple). Participants will have 4 minutes to complete the 5 RAT
items.

Creative • The 28-item CBI (Dollinger, 2011) is a self-report questionnaire

measuring the degree to which individuals engage in activities related
Behavior to major domains of aesthetic creativity, such as creative writing,
visual arts or performing arts. Participants will have 6 minutes to

Inventory
complete the CBI.
Resilience V/S
its opposite, defeatism
• Difference between leaders
who resist
internationalization, resulting
in burnout, stress, anger,
dishonesty, and dysfunction
vs. who embrace these
challenges to become
stronger, smarter, and better
leaders (Breen, 2017)
• Defeatism leads to destructive
and avoidance approach,
 Defeatism
Defeatism has us feel
engulfs most of • frustrated,
• powerless,

us during • over-worked and exhausted,

• forgotten,
Then, we can easily
embrace a “give up” or
And we fight adversity
with denial and despair
adversity
• mistreated, cynical attitude – why me attitude.
• betrayed,
• isolated;
How to sustain through
adversity?
What do you do?
Sustaining insights from resilient CEOs
took recourse into “the thing” that equipped them with
positive psychology, reflection, consciousness, and
perspective taking.

For example,
Talking to their Gaining knowledge
Walking in a forest Breathing and ……….What’s your
Praying partners or close by reading books
or be with nature meditation thing?
friends on leadership
Faith
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMinfmC3E0
How does faith
help?
Faith
gives us
• Hope
• Optimism
• Self-efficacy
• Happiness
• Longevity
Mindfuln
• Mindfulness results in a mindset not cluttered with
irrelevant matters, they do not remain preoccupied with
irrelevant details

ess
• It calms you down
• Hence, develops an ability to draw relevant information
out quickly to solve an issue.
 Critical thinking ability

Ability to appreciate
the developments in Secondary benefit:
Ability to weigh, Secondary benefit:
the supporting Develop skills (aka:
evaluate, sift & cognitive confidence
industries and absorptive capacity)
analyze: gains
institutional and routines
environment

put together diverse info; to learn Where to bet, &

appreciate What’s sensible

and relevant out of diverse
to identify potentially-
info bombardment
sound candidates(betting
(gathered from: popular
by acquiring is a way to
press & journals, networks,
tame vuca – big firms do it)
mind picking, self- &
others’ experience)
 Ability to Collaborate (Social skill)

Make sense
Learning together: to
• Knowledge shape your
depth institutional
(cumulative environment and Cost-hedging
experience) investments in (defense firms
• Knowledge supporting for alliances to Flexibility & Please add to the
industries develop next- adaptability list
Diversity
generation
(E.g.: the case of military systems)
e-vehicles; how
apple and google
came together
for airtags)
 Young OR Old ??
Role of
Age: Who How did you arrive at your
decision?
is better? Write your answer on a piece of
paper
Then, pair and share

Write and Pair (ctrl+click)

Old camp vs. Young camp

What is class’s decision?

Did your group ask –
what we mean by
Young vs. Old?
Narayan
a
Murthy:
1990 and
2023?
Let us
revisit
Adanis –
what
traits they
possess /
don’t
possess?