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Personality Traits Theories are popular among Human Resource workers, because they help people to identify how easy or difficult certain tasks are for them to take on. For instance, it is far easier for an extraverted person to find success in a people-oriented sales job than it is for an introverted person to succeed in that same job. However introverts are successful in time working at home, than extroverted. It means that introverts are more effective in working alone. So by identifying the personal traits of the employee manager can easily find the type of job which would be the most acceptable for the person. For this reason, it is possible to say, that Personal Traits Theories help to find appropriate people for organization.
Among the advantages of Traits theories is their objectivity – most of them rely on statistical data, and thus do not have any bias. Trait theories are also simple to understand and easy to apply. The Theories help to understand the information regarding a human being’s personality, beliefs about himself and surrounding environment. In turn, provide the opportunity to compare people and identify what type of job to choose or to find a suitable collage or even in relationship.
Personality assessments have been used by individuals and psychologists for years. They used it understand how a person is likely to act, or react for some situations. Also to understand how that person can more effectively interact within the organizations. Nowadays the use of personality assessments in the workplace by organizations is going to increase. According to Rocket-Hire’s fourth annual survey of Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ERE) the use of personality assessments by organizations has increased from 34% in 2005 to 65% in 2006.
Typically personality assessments are used to show personality traits which person posses, personal styles and the way how person behaves. The results of the assessments can be used to predict how a person may perform in the workplace in certain situations. One of the most popular tools used for personal and career development is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The Big Five Factor Model is also commonly used in personality assessment when making evaluating job applicants. Both theories make a contribution to the understanding of organizational behavior if correctly interpreted.
Although Personality and Traits theories can be used as a good predictor of how a person may perform in the workplace in certain situations, there are still several limitations of these theories that managers must bear in mind:
