Persoanlity Narayana Murthy

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LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR

PERSONALITY ANALYSIS NAGAVARA RAMARAO NARAYANA MURTHY By NITIN LAHOTI e mail id nike lahoti rediffmail com

CONTENT PAGE 1 Introduction 3 Background 3 Purpose 3 Scope 3 Methodology 3

2 Executive Summary 4

3 Literature Review 4 4 About The Industry Sector 5 5 About The Personality 5 6 Analysis and Justification 6 7 Conclusion 7 8 Recommendations 7

9 Bibliography and Reference List 8

INTRODUCTION We remember some persons in our life because they have some appeal in their character We remember a person s behavior or attitude and label that this person has good personality As part of my academic study I got a chance to analyze a successful personality I have chosen Narayana Murthy and analyze his personality on different criteria 1 BACKGROUND This report will tell about different aspect of Narayana Murthy s personality as well as his attitude behavior and value system too 2 PURPOSE 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 Narayana Murthy made him successful 3 SCOPE In this report everything is concerned with the personality behavior attitude and value system of Mr Narayana Murthy and also how he makes Infosys count in Top IT Company 4 METHODOLOGY In describing personality usually we should prefer secondary data i e print and digital media online resources this is because an individual s personality will reflect in his interviews

speeches and his decisions To analyze personality a person should read books which are written on that personality or which are written by that person Journal and magazine with specific and relevant article which provide us appropriate information given prioritize Online resources can also be valuable only if we are passing through authorized websites Also we should have some knowledge about how to describe and analyze personality I used The Big Five Model to understand and describe Mr Murthy s personality

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Personality of a person contains his behavior attitude value system his mentality and his decision making process Mr Murthy s personality is enclosing all the essentials contents to become successful I analyzed his personality according to The Big Five Model All the way through this obligation I describe Mr Murthy s personality and find out to become successful in life a person should hard work and big dreamer He is focused to his work whether that is professional personal or social

LITERATURE REVIEW Personality is the figure overall of ways by which a human being respond and intermingle with others A person s personality is completely inspired by its surroundings and social environment which is given by person s parents relatives and friends and his behavior is reflection of that environment On the other hand personality is also affected by person s emotional experiences Now a day s personality analysis is done by MNC s to analyze employees adoptability to act in groups and other countries By doing analyze of their personality they came to know about their behavior and attitude and they can judge that a person is suitable for which job Analysis of a personality can be done by two methods which are Myers Briggs Type Indicator MBTI and The Big Five Model To describe an individual s qualities The Big Five Model is proper After analyzing the personality we came to know about that person s different aspect as like his risk taking ability leadership ability etc 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

ABOUT THE INDUSTRY SECTOR Narayana Murthy s Infosys technology limited was an IT company established in 1981 After the liberalization process 1991 92 in Indian economy I T industry developed at an extraordinary and incomparable growth rate of over 50 till 1998 This sector was worth of 12 6 billion in year 2003 and that was 3 5 of global IT and these figures are enough to say about this industry

ABOUT THE PERSONALITY I have selected Mr N R NARAYANA MURTHY as a person to understand and analyze the different elevations of his personality He is the Non Executive chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited Mr Murthy was born in Karnataka on 20 August 1946 He has 8 brothers and sister and he was from an average middle class family Murthy has completed his B E from University of Mysore in 1967 and M Tech from IIT Kanpur in 1969 He selected computers and IT as a career prospect and worked in computer departments of IIM Ahmadabad SESA in Paris After getting work experience in European country he moved back to India in 1974 In India he worked with Patni Computer System in Pune In 1981 he with six others decided to start Infosys Tech Ltd Mr Murthy with his hard work took Infosys in the list of successful IT companies of India In 1995 Infosys bring its IPO in 1996 it started its first office in Europe at Milton Keynes UK It was the first Indian company to become listed in NASDAQ it was the milestone in the way of Infosys s success story In the 2002 Infosys was selected as the The India s Most Respected Company by The Business World s survey In 2006 Murthy resigned as chairman of Infosys He got many honors and awards Some of them are In 2000 Asiaweek magazine counted him in 50 most powerful person s of Asia TIME CNN featured him as 25 Most Influential Global Executive in 2001

He received Indo French Forum Model in as well as The World Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young in 2001 He was declared as the Most Powerful CEOs of India for year 2004 and 2005 by The Economic Times He also establishes Infosys Foundation in 1996 to work for the welfare of poor s and giving them proper resources to develop

ANALYSIS AND JUSTIFICATION There are two models to analyze and justify an individual s personality From them The Big Five Personality Model is appropriate to describe Mr Narayana Murthy s personality so we will use this model According to this model1 EXTRAVERSION Murthy is very friendly and socialite person 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 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 3 CONSCIENTIOUSNESS Narayana Murthy is a person who already set his targets goals and worked with other in organized and accurate way to get his destination He is honest because he handles to work in a group for a long time without any controversy 4 EMOTIONAL STABILITY He is emotionally very stable person and do not show his emotions to others 5 OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE Narayana 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 Attitude of a person s can be identified by evaluating his performance job satisfaction and job involvement Murthy s attitude was like he had both job involvement and satisfaction We can understand his job involvement that in 1990 five of the founders of Infosys decided to sell Infosys but Murthy refused and offered them that he will buy Infosys Working in same organization for more than 25 years implies your job satisfaction

A person s Values shape that person s behavior and attitude We know that the attitude of Mr Murthy was decent so his values should be also high Narayana Murthy was a hard worker honest socially aware visionary loyalty to organization kind of person who believes in his growth in company s growth

CONCLUSION After analyzing Narayana 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 Narayana Murthy is a person who took risk did hard work being patient for results and cooperative these qualities of his personality made him successful

RECOMMENDATIONS 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

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