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How organizations can use their knowledge of individual differences to place the right person in the right job.
In our everyday lives, we come across different kinds of people and we make use of a concept called Personality, to deal with those people. A brief explanation would be that Personality is made with the distinctive forms of feelings, behaviors and thoughts which could make a person unique; different.
It could also be defined as:
Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms -- hidden or not -- behind those patterns. This definition means that among their colleagues in other subfields of psychology, those psychologists who study personality have a unique mandate: to explain whole persons (Funder, D. C., 1997).
If a person’s entire personality could change suddenly, then we would not be able to predict his personality traits. Ex. If a person is sometimes warm and friendly and at other times he is cold and hostile, then we cannot conclude that his personality is warm and friendly.
Another aspect is the “commonalties and differences” in the behavior of people. We are interested in understanding as to what an individual has in common with others as well as what sets that individual apart from others. Every person is in certain aspects,
Like all other people
Like some other people
Like no other person Organizationally, manager must understand that all subordinates are not alike and that each subordinates is unique and may or may not respond to the same stimuli, such as pay raise or reprimands. If a person’s entire personality could change suddenly, then we would not be able to predict his personality traits. Ex. If a person is sometimes warm and friendly and at other times he is cold and hostile, then we cannot conclude that his personality is warm and friendly.
Another aspect is the “commonalties and differences” in the
In our everyday lives, we come across different kinds of people and we make use of a concept called Personality, to deal with those people. A brief explanation would be that Personality is made with the distinctive forms of feelings, behaviors and thoughts which could make a person unique; different.
It could also be defined as:
Personality refers to individuals' characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior, together with the psychological mechanisms -- hidden or not -- behind those patterns. This definition means that among their colleagues in other subfields of psychology, those psychologists who study personality have a unique mandate: to explain whole persons (Funder, D. C., 1997).
If a person’s entire personality could change suddenly, then we would not be able to predict his personality traits. Ex. If a person is sometimes warm and friendly and at other times he is cold and hostile, then we cannot conclude that his personality is warm and friendly.
Another aspect is the “commonalties and differences” in the behavior of people. We are interested in understanding as to what an individual has in common with others as well as what sets that individual apart from others. Every person is in certain aspects,
Like all other people
Like some other people
Like no other person Organizationally, manager must understand that all subordinates are not alike and that each subordinates is unique and may or may not respond to the same stimuli, such as pay raise or reprimands. If a person’s entire personality could change suddenly, then we would not be able to predict his personality traits. Ex. If a person is sometimes warm and friendly and at other times he is cold and hostile, then we cannot conclude that his personality is warm and friendly.
Another aspect is the “commonalties and differences” in the