Personality Impact
Uploaded by TPMoney on Jan 29, 2015
Personality Impact
Tricia Pawlowski
MGT/312
01/26/2015
Mohammad Yunus
Personality Impact
Within every growing organization lies people, people’s individual cognitive abilities, and their many different personality types. When one realizes that there is a cornucopia of diversity and culture that makes up most of our world’s workforce, and also understands the many different personality types and cognitive abilities of said people, it gives us the competency to maintain and grow an efficient place to work; not only for us managers, but for all employees. It was because of this simple premise that caused me to take a closer look into my own personality traits and cognitive abilities. I did this by using the Big 5 Personality Traits profile to analyze my own personality traits (of the five there are: agreeableness, extroversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experiences). Along with my personality profile, I also was able to ascertain the many cognitive abilities that I possess and that of which would be best fit for my organization.
My Big 5 Personality Traits Profile
EXAMPLE 1.1
The chart above (EXAMPLE 1.1) represents my Big 5 Personality Traits Profile and its findings there in. From the information I have gathered, I was able to conclude that I tend to affect many situations in the workplace in a positive way (extraversion). However, it also indicated that opposite of extraversion, introversion and neuroticism, I have a tendency to affect the workplace in a negative way, but I’d like to think that I do that within myself and not upon other people (J Gerontol (1981) pg. 78-81).
The trait that I score average on is that I am very organized and like to do each task well (conscientious). Even though this one it middle ground, I would like to think that this is my most prominent attribute personality wise (JDR (1984) 63 (10): 1182-1185). I scored quite low on openness to experiences and even lower on agreeableness, which suggests that I have a lot of work to do on my part as far as being a great manager.
Cognitive Abilities Profile
You cannot complete a profile for workplace personality traits and not begin to identify what cognitive abilities you possess that would benefit your organization to the fullest, so I did just that. My Cognitive Abilities Profile suggests that my top three cognitive abilities are listed as follows: I am able to understand and use written and spoken language strongly (verbal ability); a great trait to...