Personality Narayana Murthy

Personality of a person contains his behavior, attitude, value system; his mentality and his decision making process.
Mr. Murthys personality is enclosing all the essentials contents to become successful. We analyzed his personality according to The Big Five Model and tried to find out how his personality helped him to become successful in life. We will try to broadly analyze his personality in five traits as are given by the Big Five model. . A brief definition would be that personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that make a person unique. In addition to this, personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. Personality is the figure overall of ways by which a human being respond and intermingle with others. A persons personality is inspired by his surroundings and social environment given by persons parents, relatives and friends and by a persons emotional experiences.
Narayana Murthys 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. Mr. Narayana Murthy 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;
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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 Infosyss success story. In the 2002 Infosys was selected as the The Indias Most Respected Company by The Business Worlds survey. In 2006 Murthy resigned as chairman of Infosys.
ANALYSIS
According to the Big Five modelExcerpts from a recent interview with Mr Murthy helps us to conclude that he has the following qualitites
1. EXTRAVERSION As the name suggests extravert is a person whose energy is outward, towards people and things. They get their motivation from other people. They are understandable and accessible and often want to change the world rather than think about it. All this is true as he always raises his voice
for social issues in India such as election, poverty, unemployment etc. He is also a part of various education institutes of India as well as of foreign countries.
2. AGREEABLENESS Murthy is a person who is good natured and cooperative. This can
be concluded since he gave up his career and admission to IIT due to economics constraints of his family and gave in to his fathers request to instead join a local engineering college.
3. CONSCIENTIOUSNESS - It is an aspect of what has traditionally been called character. 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. Being brought up in
a lower middle class family in a district headquarters in the 60s was a major factor for him being a conscientious person. in his own words,My father used to tell us about the importance of putting public good before private Page | 2
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good; mother would talk about sacrifice and truth. , this shows why he has been so succesful and organized.
4. EMOTIONAL STABILITY He is emotionally very stable person and do not show his
emotions to others. An example of this quality of his can bee seen when Infosys was going through a rough patch and in 1990s there came a time when they were
floundering and had offers to buy their company which his colleagues thought they should consider since they werent making too much headway. In that discussion he could feel the sense of despondency, So he pulled a fast one. He said, guys dont worry, Ill buy you out. I know its going to be tough in this country but I have no doubt that well see light. In minutes, they all agreed with him and said, From now onwards we will never discuss the issue of closing down, getting tired or giving up. This marathon will be restarted.
5. OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE Narayana Murthy has always been on lookout
towards new experiences and learnings this can also bee seen from his graduation days when he was at IIT, Kanpur graduating in Control Theory. At breakfast on a bright Sunday
morning in 1968, he had a chance encounter with a famous computer scientist on sabbatical from a wellknown US university. His 15 min interaction with him completely changed his outlook. In his own words when I look back today at that pivotal meeting, I marvel at how one role model can alter for the better the future of a young student. This experience taught me that valuable advice can sometimes come from an unexpected source, and chance events can sometimes open new doors.
Attitude of a persons can be identified by evaluating his performance, job satisfaction and job involvement. Murthys 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 (Life lessons from Narayana Murthy, 2007). Working in same organization for more than 25 years implies your job satisfaction.
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A persons Values shape that persons 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 companys growth (Murthy, A Better India:A Better World, 2009).
CONCLUSION:After analyzing Narayana Murthys 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.
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