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The document discusses individual differences and their importance in organizations. It explains that individual differences are influenced by genetic and environmental factors such as sex, heredity, maturity, and socioeconomic status. Managing individual differences is important for managers because it influences how employees feel, think, and behave.

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Individual Differences

The document discusses individual differences and their importance in organizations. It explains that individual differences are influenced by genetic and environmental factors such as sex, heredity, maturity, and socioeconomic status. Managing individual differences is important for managers because it influences how employees feel, think, and behave.

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FILAMER CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

Individual Difference
JOANNE SANTURAL BPED 1-C
Why are individual differences important?

Individual differences are the ways in which people


differ from each other. Every member of an
organization has its own way of behavior. It is
important for managers to understand individual
differences because they influence the feelings,
thoughts, and behavior of employees.
NATURE OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

The fact that people are different from each other is a very
common observation. The differences in psychological
characteristics are often consistent and form a stable pattern. By
‘consistent’, we mean that people tend to show regularity in their
behavior and their patterns of behavior do not change very
frequently. This consistency and stability in behavior is unique to
every person. People develop their unique traits/ characteristics
and patterns of behavior due to their genetic make-up and the
environment in which they are brought up.
Individual differences occur due to interaction of genetic and
environmental factors. We inherit certain characteristics from our
parents through genetic codes. The phenotype or the expressed
forms of our characteristics depend on contributions of the socio-
cultural environment. This is the reason why we are not exactly
like our parents and our parents not exactly like our grandparents.
We do share similarities with our parents in respect of many
physical attributes like height, color of eyes, shape of nose etc.
We also inherit certain cognitive, emotional and
other characteristics from our parents.
What are the four main causes of individual
differences?

•Sex: ...
•Heredity: ...
•Maturity: ...
•Social and economic status:
 Sex:
The general results of all studies made point to the fact that the
differences between sexes are quite insigni­ficant. In detail, the
exact measurements of intellectual abili­ties show a relatively slight
superiority of the women in receptivity of memory, and relatively
slight superiority of men in control of movement and in grasp of
concrete mechanical situation.
Heredity – Heredity influences are intrinsic or innate. Individual
diffe­rences in mental and physical traits are due to heredity and to
environmental factors. Heredity as a cause of individual
differences may be due either to remote or immediate ancestry

Maturity - Differences in maturity of individuals have always


been observed. The pupils in any grade present a considerable
range of maturity. The maturity of pupils varies along three lines of
development, namely: chronological, anatomical, and organic.
Socio Economic Status - Socioeconomic status is the social
standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as
a combination of education, income and occupation.​

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