2. What type of assessments and evaluations might you use to determine the characteristics of your employees? Does the type of tool used make a difference? Why? The type of assessment and evaluation that you might use to determine the characteristics of your employees is psychometric testing: Psychometric tests include personality profiles, reasoning tests, motivation questionnaires, and ability assessments. Interest tests measure how people differ in their motivation, values, and opinions in relation to their interests. Personality tests measure how people differ in their style or manner of doing things, and in the way they interact with their environment and other people. Aptitude tests measure how people differ in their ability to perform or carry out different tasks.
3. Which of the following employee characteristics have the greatest impact on organizational performance: general attitudes, job satisfaction, emotions and moods, personality, values, or perception? Provide a rationale for your choice. General attitudes have the greatest impact on organizational performance because when working with teams and groups, if one participant’s attitude is negative, it can affect the whole organization. Same can