In other words, this person is concerned with toughness and power and opposed the use of subjective feelings. People with this tendency are less likely to be caught up in negative aspects when regarding to diversity. They are more interested in how another person is performing and not on the color of a person's skin. Furthermore, workers whose traits lean to authoritarianism are usually good and trustworthy employees. On the other side of the coin, dogmatism as a trait that is not looked as highly upon in the workplace.
Dogmatism leads a person to see the world as a threatening place and regard authority as absolute.
People associated with this trait are described as rigid and closed but at the same time they tend to want certainty imposed upon them. Then the author goes on to compare Nazis with having both traits of authoritarianism and dogmatism because they believed so strongly in authority that they followed their unethical orders without question. Personality and Self-Concept Personality dynamics are the ways in which an individual integrates and organizes social traits, values and motives, personal conceptions, and emotional adjustment. Along with personality dynamics there is also self-concept. This is the way a person looks at himself.