Cult of personality

1. What is your greatest strength? “My greatest strength would have to be that I’m reliable. No matter what the task is I will get it done in a timely fashion. Another thing that shows I can be reliable is the fact that I work well under pressure. All jobs do have some level of pressure that is involved and obviously the levels of pressure may vary significantly depending on the individual’s job title. For example, when I was working for a company called Claire’s (a costume jewelry store) a…

Invasion of Personal Space: Moustache Experiment Every single student walking in the hallway experience wiggling out of a crowd in front of the library door, sliding by the wall to avoid a group of wild boys, or tiptoeing over a pool of mysterious water. All these actions are done to protect the student’s own personal space (Graziano & Cooke, 2006). A quick duck to avoid a flying basketball is also an example of personal space protection (Graziano & Cooke, 2006). Everyone has his or her own…

When someone asks you, what do you think your strengths are, it is natural for us to try to make ourselves look good, especially if were applying for a job. I have learned while reading the article written by Peter Drucker, “Managing Oneself” that we are often wrong when it comes to what we think our strengths are (1999). For example, I use to believe I had good time management skills, but once I evaluated everything I did and how I used my time I learned that my time management skills were the…

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awareness can be much more significant and severe (Haddock, 2001). According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders “Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder suffer from alternation of two or more personalities with impaired memory among personality states of valuable information” (Haddock, 2001). The guidelines for someone to be diagnosed…

comes out of your mouth. Dissociative identity disorder, most commonly known as the multi-personality-disorder is a very rare condition, known to have been caused by physical and sexual abuse, mostly during their childhood or at a young age. According to today’s psychiatrist, DID affects the body both mentally and physically. A person with Dissociative Identity disorder is said to have 10-15 different personalities, suffer from depression, mood swings, suicidal tendencies, and sleep disorders…

believed to be correlate with their personality. Based on that belief, the personality test has been designed as a hiring tool and most personality tests are presented as questionnaires that applicants are required to fill out during hiring processes. Data shows that personality test has become an industry with $400 million a year and at least 30 percent of organizations in U.S. have used that in hiring practices (Berry et al. 13). Managers are convinced that personality test enables them to…

I learned that I needed to take two personality tests for the course. As I continued reading throughout our personality book, I became captivated on so many levels about personality psychology. I was scared at first to take these tests, then I thought to that these results would be beneficial in knowing and confirming my thoughts of myself. The two personality tests I took were the Five Factory Personality test and the Eysenck test. The five factor personality test gave me on Factor 1…

Personality traits play an important part of organizational behavior and it is important to understand how to use those traits to your advantage. Project 2 uses a series of assessments to help identify different personality traits. It also uses the assessments to show how those traits are used when working with others and within an organization. Additionally, the project takes a deeper look at how understanding these assessments can turn an individual into a more productive employee. Finally,…

Video Analysis One: Dealing With difficult people versus them dealing with you In 2007, psychologist Bill Crawford, produced a short video entitled “Dealing with difficult people versus them dealing with you” as one of a four part series filmed in conjunction with PBS (Crawford, 2007). The following video case analysis will compare the ideas present in the video to the ideas found in this week’s assigned readings - Resolving conflicts at work: Ten strategies for everyone on the job and…