Big Five personality traits

In this paper I will be outlining my theory of human personality. I will explore the dimensions of my concept of humanity, human motivation, personality development, and pathological behavior, concluding with my vision of an ideal world. Concept of Humanity On the dimension of determinism vs. free choice, I take a limited freedom position. I agree with Allport’s claim (Feist, Feist, & Roberts, 2013) that we have the ability to make conscious choices in the present as we act in and react to our…

Personality: Measuring and Predicting Job Performance Generally, measuring personality and cognitive abilities helped organizations predict the performance of employees in organizations when determining employees’ performance of their job in the future. Organizations used various tools to measure and predict job performance during the organization’s hiring process. Often than not, personality is used as an indicator to determine employees’ future performance before they are hired as an employee…

Personality Theories Along the development of the study of personalities, many psychologist have developed numerous ideas to approach and understand each individual. At the same time, these psychologist tried to explain why each person will react in different ways in the same situation, how the environment affect the decision making process, and how genetics represent a vital part of our personality. Some of these personalities’ theories were considered reliable and accurate in a specific point…

In today’s society, it may be necessary for individuals to be able to effectively form work teams within the workplace, in order to increase organizational performance. This paper will discuss two contextual factors of work teams and two components of a successful work team’s composition. Introduction People often confused the term work group with the term work team. Although they have a number of similarities, they are still somewhat very different from one another. According to Judge &…

After some self reflection, it’s without a doubt my personality has been shaped from how I was brought up and those who were around me as a child. To give you some background, I was born in Addis Abebe, Ethiopia. My father passed away when I was at the age of 3 and my older sister at 5, leaving my mother as a single parent. To this day, my mother is the strongest woman I know. Three years after his death, my mother applied for the lottery to come to America. In the summer of 1996, my mother won…

How Humour can benefit workplace relations and improve employee satisfaction Humour is multifunctional, it can be used in organisations to achieve many positive objectives (Cruthirds & Romero 2006). Humour within the workplace can be defined by the groups of people and the behaviours from the company. Humour can impact both horizontal and vertical relationships in an organisation, as well as the interpersonal relationship that is underlying (Cooper 2008). Humour can provide valuable benefits;…

Hans Eysenck was a German psychologist who specialized in the fields of personality and intelligence. However, Eysenck also did work in the fields of behavioral therapy, astrology and parapsychology, sexual behavior and smoking and health. Although, Eysenck’s most influential work is in that of personality psychology, where he developed the basic concept of personality which many major personality psychologists would base their work off of, likewise expanding upon many of Eysenck’s concepts.…

Personality is the enduring pattern of thoughts, emotions, and behaviours that characterize a person, along with the psychological processes behind those characteristics (McShane, p. 34). O’Grady has a bitter personality towards Devine. He does not provide his senior with any support or respect. He told him while they have to work together it did not mean that had to like him. This shows he had no professionalism towards Devine, nor did he like him or even try to. According to the five factor…

To what extent are the personality traits and features essential in maintaining business success? Success means living a life you are feeling proud of in retrospect. Achieving success is a complex multimodal process which cannot be accurately defined. There is no single algorithm which would lead a human to success. Even though a number of psychologists worked to derive a formula which would lead people to it, there are millions of factors which would always cause concerns about trustworthiness…

Personality should be valued or construct to get detailed characteristics of a person. As we cannot physically see the traits, there will be a question about is it really there or true? Scientists made some interference about people and how they are like and such measurement are hypothetical most of the times. Smith (2005) was explaining in his study that even though those theoretical theories are there, it is necessary to make sure they are measure “in a convincing, valid way” (P. 396).…