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Personality is one of the major areas of study in psychology today. We do not have scope in this book to explore the complexities relating to this topic, nor to discuss neurological and biological questions. We will restrict ourselves to looking at the concept of personality, understood as character, the apparent, conditioned identity of each individual.1 Our intention is to investigate some of the results of the numerous studies that have researched character typologies and how they affect behavior. Individual and collective behavior within organizations has been an important area of study in recent years and has produced interesting results relating to the development and acquisition of competences and new skills by managers.
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The original Sufi conception is that all human beings have something of the divine in them and this is reflected in their characters and personalities. However, no one is aware of this divinity until, through human love, they see not only the greatness of the personality of the loved one, but also their own divinity reflected in the other as though they were a mirror. The unity of all human characters constitutes the unity of the divine. For more information about the Sufi view of unity, see Lings, M., Sufism, Religion in the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 1969, pp. 253–69
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de Anca, C., Vazquez, A. (2007). Personality and Diversity Management. In: Managing Diversity in the Global Organization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800885_5
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