How Personality Predicts Employee Performance
INTRODUCTION
Personality of an individual is closely linked with the process of job or work performance. The relationship between personality and the level of job performance is dependent on the environment in which he/she is working. It is important to note that job or work performance of an individual are related to organizational success or failure. Hence performance should be aligned to achieve organizational goals. According to various researches it is concluded that cognitive ability is a major contributor towards employee’s performance as compared to the five factor model of personality assessment.
PERSONALITY PREDICTS EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
Personality of an individual is a combination of attributes which includes emotions, thoughts, attitudes, behaviors and activities which when combined together makes a person special. Psychologists have researched and identified various theories in order to understand the personality traits and their development. Earlier schools of thought recognized, type theories which associate personality types to biological influences. Next discovered theory was the Personality trait theories, which define the characteristics by which people differ in their relations due to their internal hereditarily based characteristics. Likewise psychodynamic theories revolve around the influence of unconscious on personality and behavioral theories consider interaction of individual and environment in personality development. Last are the Humanist theories which focus their attention on the person’s free will and experience in personality development.
Personality traits are attributes which influence and controls the person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors and his/her role being an employee of an organization. Work or job performance is measured through individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities utilized for performing the task assigned. The recent research work performed in personality assessment has discovered some visible models between
Personality of an individual is closely linked with the process of job or work performance. The relationship between personality and the level of job performance is dependent on the environment in which he/she is working. It is important to note that job or work performance of an individual are related to organizational success or failure. Hence performance should be aligned to achieve organizational goals. According to various researches it is concluded that cognitive ability is a major contributor towards employee’s performance as compared to the five factor model of personality assessment.
PERSONALITY PREDICTS EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE
Personality of an individual is a combination of attributes which includes emotions, thoughts, attitudes, behaviors and activities which when combined together makes a person special. Psychologists have researched and identified various theories in order to understand the personality traits and their development. Earlier schools of thought recognized, type theories which associate personality types to biological influences. Next discovered theory was the Personality trait theories, which define the characteristics by which people differ in their relations due to their internal hereditarily based characteristics. Likewise psychodynamic theories revolve around the influence of unconscious on personality and behavioral theories consider interaction of individual and environment in personality development. Last are the Humanist theories which focus their attention on the person’s free will and experience in personality development.
Personality traits are attributes which influence and controls the person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors and his/her role being an employee of an organization. Work or job performance is measured through individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities utilized for performing the task assigned. The recent research work performed in personality assessment has discovered some visible models between
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