Personality Traits that impact work performance

controversy over personality testing as well. The most common criticism touches validity and reliability of this method. Annie Murphy Paul in her book “The Cult of Personality” questioning validation and reliability of personality testing. She says: “often invalid, unreliable, and unfair”. She describes personality test as an industrial astrology and critics this form of assessment as “slippery, often underground, hard to monitor and measure “In her opinion very often tests are conducted by people without qualifications and it is leading to misinterpretation of tests results. Some of the critics conclude that correlation between personality traits and organization’s activity are too low to treat them as significant predictors…

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 select the…

behavior, and personality is an important factor among them. Personality is defined as the combination of ways which form an individual’s respond to or interact with others (Robbins & Stephen, 1943). Similarly to the definition of Robbins & Stephen, the others authors describe personality is the sum of characteristics that capture the unique nature of an individual in terms of reacting or interacting with others (John, Richard, Osborn,James, Mary, 2005). In reality, lots of managers try to…

Respond: 1) The core values that is found in a high-performance organizational cultures are social responsibility, innovation, customers services, personal growth, and teamwork. Social responsibility enhance the performance level of the organization because it shows if the company give back to society; giving contribution of time and money to charity that helps the public with everyday life struggles or to improve the lives individuals. Another social responsibility is providing an…

What are the qualities most often found in a successful leader? How can varying personality and leadership styles influence the effectiveness of one’s leadership abilities? The information researched and outlined in the paper below will lecture on the topic of leadership, and the styles that have been proven to be inherent in effective leaders. Certain character traits lend themselves to a more successful leader. That is to say an effective style of leadership is directly correlated to the…

On the Relationship between Head Pose, Social Attention and Personality Prediction for Unstructured and Dynamic Group Interactions (Ramanathan Subramanian, Yan Yan, Jacopo Staiano, Oswald Lanz, Nicu Sebe) Abstract It is widely known that social attention and personality traits are dependent upon each other but the position of the head is more commonly used to determine the direction of attention in a small gathering/group. Unstructured and dynamic group was formed and captured via multiple…

Appendix Palaiou, K., & Furnham, A. (2014). Are bosses unique? Personality facet differences between CEOs and staff in five work sectors. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice And Research, 66(3), 173-196. doi:10.1037/cpb0000010 This study by Kat Palaiou and Adrian Furnham of University College London was the first to compare the Big Five Personality scores of 138 CEOs and senior managers of five different popular professions. They expected that CEOs would have significantly higher scores in…

most prevalent personality assessment inventory (Harrell, 2017). Individuals that execute the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory are cognizant of their personal tastes (Duhe, 2009). It is imperative for a person to be able to recognize their strengths and weaknesses based on their behavior, which impacts both their professional and personal lives. The result of any personality trait assessment depends on the individuals’ frankness as they answer each question, moreover the outcome of each…

perceives a particular attribute. It seems that a person will see a particular attribute that he excels at as being extremely valuable if not crucial for a particular process to be performed not matter if the process is important or not. (Cucina, Martin, Vasilopoulos, & Thibodeuax, 2012) In Cucina et al.’s (2012) summary article, they state that an individual is more likely to state that traits that they posses are the most important and necessary for a successful performance of a task,…

the next, their personalities undergo a transformation. The always shifting scenarios at the Phonathon causes callers to reconstruct their personalities, and an adaption process begins in order to suit the personality of the person on the other side of the phone. After observing the instability of personalities, it is important to analyze the extent to which a person has to “fake” a personality in order to suit that of prospective donor. The caller does not necessarily fake a personality, but…