Conscientiousness

Discuss what is meant by employee engagement and outline how employee engagement can be improved. The concept of employee engagement is an emergent result when workplaces adopt concepts and ideas designed to increase communication between the employers and the employee, thus increasing their worker’s loyalty and commitment to their organisation’s goals and means. An engaged employee is one whom exhibits emotional commitments to the company, usually distinguishable through the voluntary effort…

Exploring Leadership and Growth Potential: A Self-Diagnosis The MBTI is one of many personality inventories that assists in the evaluation of personal leadership style and methodology. The MBTI was developed by researcher Isabel Myers Briggs in 1980 during practical experimentation on Carl G. Jung’s theory of psychological types, developed in 1971. Jung had proposed that three dichotomous relationships existed between basic characteristics of a person’s psyche. Namely, they included general…

personality test and the results were as I expected, the findings matched previous tests in a number of areas. My results identified me as relatively high in Extraversion (energetic and social), Agreeableness (friendly, compassionate and cooperative), Conscientiousness (methodical, organized, and through), and…

In this modern era people have lots of choices for using money in order to achieve different levels of happiness on materialistic things and experiences. I have met many people with low levels of satisfaction even though they are wealthy. “U.S. government on happiness statistics, suggested that poor people in poor countries are not unhappy simply because they don’t a lot of cash. They are more likely to have fewer choices, more children who die in childbirth and other grave problems. And on…

that most extroverts are extremely outcome oriented and some of the study show extraverts as being input oriented as well (Woodley et. al., 2000). However, a study by Judge and Ilies (2002) found that the personality traits of neuroticism and conscientiousness were the strongest motivators in all three of the process motivation theories, although the personality trait of extraversion was also applicable in all of these perspectives but to a lesser degree. References: Judge, T.A. & Ilies, R.…

The University of Kansas each year hosts a career fair, at these career fairs companies from around the country come in hopes of recruiting some of the Universities best and brightest students to come work for their company. On the other hand, there are the hundreds of hopeful college students that have been tweaking their resumes and are dressed in their finest clothes in hope that they will be selected for a leadership program, internship, or even a full-time job. The career fair can be…

4 BSWH prides itself on providing an extensive orientation over the details and then also expects managers to on - board the new employees to his/her specific department and/or role. After all of the c ross - training has been completed there is a fundamental review for the first 30/60/90 day of employment. During this review, we call it a rounding session; questions are presented from both parties to ensure that the interview was handled well, the role w as explained with detail…

Personality is the reasonably stable patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors derived from both genetic predisposition and social learning that distinguish one person from another. There are three terms related to personality. They are traits, states, and types (Drummond & Sheperis, 2016). The term personality trait refers to enduring personal characteristics that are revealed in a particular pattern of behavior in different situations (Drummond & Sheperis, 2016). Traits remain stable…

Zwahr-Castro, J., & Dicke-Bohmann, A. K. (2014). Who can be friends? Characteristics of those who remain friends after dissolution of a romantic relationship. Individual Differences Research, 12(4-A), 142-152. In this article, the author used an optimal size of 522 college students that included the friends and family of the same college students. This study seeks the participation in a self-assessment study on whether or not a former couple remained friends after a dissolution of a romantic…

In the eighteenth-century poem "To the University of Cambridge", Phillis Wheatley commands undergraduate students at Harvard to give attention to both their academics and to how their actions align with the lessons of moral conscientiousness and refinement that Jesus promotes. Wheatley's seemingly free meter contrasts with the position Wheatley sits in in the hierarchy of society. As an enslaved, penniless, formally-uneducated black woman, Wheatley resides at the bottom of the hierarchy of…