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The Impact of Personalities on an Organization
Amanda Hemminger, Elizabeth Richardson, Amanda Thomas,
Samantha Townsend, Cittlaly Vasquez
HCS/370
August 28, 2017
Steve Kovak
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The Impact of Personalities on an Organization
Our team chose to take the Big Five Personality Test (via 123test.com).
The test
measures five major factors of personality along with the six facets that define each factor.
Factor scores give a broader global description of the individual, while facet scores give a more
detailed description of the specific traits of personality that make up the broad global description.
The areas measured reflect characteristics relative to openness to experience, work ethic,
extraversion, agreeableness, and natural reaction.
Personality traits can have a major impact on a
team.
The key is to find which personalities work best with one another.
Many organizations
find the Big Five Assessment useful in predicting whether a person would be a good fit in their
organization.
Personality Test Results
Amanda Hemminger
:
Pertaining to openness, I ranked high.
I tend to be open-minded, imaginative, and
experimental.
The work ethic fell in the middle range, somewhere between spontaneous,
disorganized and disciplined and efficient.
I also enjoy flexibility in my work environment.
In
the extraversion category, I was given the highest rank.
I prefer to be assertive, outgoing,
friendly, and prefer to work with others in a team environment. I this category was most accurate
especially relating to the aspect of a team preference.
Being compassionate, eager to please, and
good natured fell in between in the agreeableness category along with being hard headed,
competitive, and proud.
In natural reaction, I scored in the low range.
I don’t often become
easily upset in stressful situations, tend be more relaxed and don’t allow stress to consume my
thoughts and my actions.
Elizabeth Richardson
:
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Elizabeth scored a 61, middle range, in openness to experience.
She is open-minded,
practical, and has a high intellectual curiosity.
She scored a 45, middle range again, in the work
ethic area.
She is capable, careful, and reasonably hard working.
In extraversion, Elizabeth
scored a 13, low range.
She has more of a cool, composed nature and is quiet and reserved.
In
agreeableness, Elizabeth scored an 82, high range.
She tends to be compassionate, agreeable,
and unselfish.
Finally, in natural reaction, Elizabeth scored a 65, middle range.
She is a clear
thinker, relaxed, and well balanced.
Amanda Thomas
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Amanda Thomas scored the highest in the agreeableness section of the personality test.
She has a high sense in trust of others, sympathy, and sincerity. The lowest section she scored in
was natural reactions. She does not tend to have anxiety, angry hostilities, or moodiness. Another
low section that was scored was extraversion. In this section, she scored high in positive
emotions and warmth but what brought the section down to a low score was activity level and
excitement level.
