Summaries | Describe, Interpret, Evaluation and Plan

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Summary for Session 3
Describe- The session regarding the importance of personality test made me think about how
easily the modern organisations assess an individual on the basis of a personality test tool.
There are myriad of personality test tools to assess the employees and this helps the
employers to decide on which candidates are best suitable for a particular position in the job.
Different individuals have different characteristics and traits. Personality tests can help in
determining their strengths and talents as an individual with those characteristics.
Interpret- Personality traits and characteristics influence individual behaviour in
organisations. Their personality, perception, values, ethics, attribution, their skills and
abilities as well as attitudes influence how they behave in their workplace (Gifford &
Nilsson, 2014). When we use our personality for making decisions that are best suitable for
ourselves, we become more likely to find out long-term satisfaction and happiness. The trait
theory advocates the breakdown of the different behavioural patterns into a series of traits for
understanding human behaviour. We human beings are composed of certain set of definite
predisposition attributes and they are called traits. We can distinguish our traits from others.
On the other hand, the integrative approach further describes the personality of a person is a
composite of his or her psychological processes.
Evaluation- The big five personality traits test how open to experience, how conscientious,
how extroversion, how agreeable and how neurotic a person is (Judge & Zapata, 2015). It is a
very effective tool for predicting an individual’s social behaviour and performance at
workplace. Having good understanding of these behaviour can help my managers and co-
workers to create trust. I have got to know that I ranked high in conscientiousness
(87percent), lowest on extraversion (7percent), 53percent on openness to experience,
82percent on agreeableness and 37percent on neuroticism.