Personality Assessment

Personality-
Why do we need personality assessment

Motivation, enthusiasm, attitude
Personality assessments increase validity of prediction in selection decisions.
Big Five assessments have shown to provide useful predictions of future job performance.


In most working situations its the personality of your co-workers and managers that affect the day-to-day
success of the organization. If the team doesn't work well together or a manager cant motivate their staff, then
productivity and quality of service will suffer.
Ways to Assess Personality
Paper & Pencil Inventories
Individual assessment
During interviews
Reports from others
Behavioral observation
Psychometrics of 16PF
Reliability: test-retest (.80 x2wk; .70 x3wk)
Internal consistency reliability .74
Only sporadic studies found reliability below .70
Most validity studies have validity coefficients above .70


Big 5 personality traits
Extraversion

Agreeableness

Conscientiousness

Emotional Stability

Openness to experience


16 Personality Factors
Raymond Cattell
Cattell (1943) : broke 18,000 down to subset of
4,500 trait terms, then down to 35 and finally to
16 factors.

Psychometrics of 16PF
Reliability: test-retest (.80 x2wk; .70 x3wk)
Internal consistency reliability .74
Only sporadic studies found reliability below .70
Most validity studies have validity coefficients above .70


Cattell's 16 Factor Key

# Cattell's 16 Factor Low Score High Score
1 Warmth cold, selfish supportive, comforting
2 Intellect instinctive, unstable cerebral, analytical
3 Emotional Stability irritable, moody level headed, calm
4 Aggressiveness modest, docile controlling, tough
5 Liveliness somber, restrained wild, fun loving
6 Dutifulness untraditional, rebellious conforming, traditional
7 Social Assertiveness shy, withdrawn uninhibited, bold
8 Sensitivity coarse, tough touchy, soft
9 Paranoia trusting, easy going wary, suspicious
10 Abstractness practical, regular strange, imaginative
11 Introversion open, friendly private, quiet
12 Anxiety confident, self assured fearful, self-doubting
13 Open-mindedness closeminded, set-in-ways curious, exploratory
14 Independence outgoing, social loner, craves solitude
15 Perfectionism disorganized, messy orderly, thorough
16 Tension relaxed, cool stressed, unsatisfied
Openness to experience Conscientiousness Extraversion Agreeableness Emotional Stability
#
Low Score 1 2 3 4 5 High Score
1
Cool and reserved Warm and easy-going
2
Concrete thinking Abstract thinking
3
Reactive emotionally Emotionally stable
4
Submissive Dominant
5
Factual and serious Enthusiastic
6
Opportunistic Dutiful
7
Shy Socially bold
8
Unsentimental Soft hearted
9
Trusting Suspicious
10
Practical Imaginative
11
Forthright Private
12
Confident Insecure
13
Conservative Experimental
14
Group-oriented Self sufficient
15
Undisciplined Self-disciplined
16
Relaxed Tense
Characteristics of secret agent
Characteristics of Detective
Characters of Astronaut
Sanguine
impulsive and pleasure-seeking
the talker
sociable and charismatic, optimistic, creative, and outgoing;
enthusiastic, and cheerful; easily attract others and makes friends;
inspire others to work and join in the fun
have good people-skills
like to talk a lot, struggles with completing tasks, chronically late, and
tend to forget their obligations, base their decisions primarily on
feelings
very poor at tolerating boredom; routine jobs and boring companions
annoy them and irritate
tendencies towards arrogance, and a lack of discipline
Public speakers, politicians, sales people, secretaries, event planners,
travel agents

Cholerics
ambitious and leader-like
the driver
hard driving individuals known for accomplishing goals,
have a lot of aggression, energy, and/or passion
desire control, and are best at jobs that demand strong
control and authority, and require quick decisions and
instant attention
care little for the feelings of others
naturally gifted businessmen, independent, see the whole
picture, organize well, and not easily discouraged
good at math and engineering, are analytical, logical
bossy, impatient, cant relax, quick tempered, easily
angered, unsympathetic
Many great charismatic military and political figures,
lawyers
Melancholic
introverted & thoughtful
the thinker
high degree of perfectionist tendencies
highly organized, schedule oriented, finish what they start, like
charts, graphs, figures and lists, see the problems and are able to
identify creative solutions easily
also victims of depressions that come from great dissatisfaction,
disappointment, easily hurt by words or events
have a deep love for others
extremely loyal in friendships
they make great doctors, nurses, social workers, ministers, and
teachers
Accountants, artists, engineers

Phlegmatic
relaxed and quiet
the watcher
are best in positions of mediation
Easy-going, calm, tolerant of others, well-balanced,
sympathetic, kind, keeps emotions hidden, has many friends,
avoids conflict
good in gathering facts, at generalizing, seeing the bigger
picture, and reading between the lines
often selfish, judge others easily, resist change, stay
uninvolved, and can be passive-aggressive
they tend to work well under pressure, but deadlines are
needed.
sometimes find it hard to speak up in the workplace and have
a tendency to avoid conflict.
Department heads, diplomats, social workers
Conclusion- speech
The idea of these exercises is not to generalize people. We are all a
blend of these four types, with one (and maybe two) being
dominant. Training, lifestyle, childhood experience, education and
health all play a part in moulding our personalities and differentiating
us. However, understanding the different types of personality and
temperament does play a key role in how we can build better work
teams and create the best fit between employees skills, personality
and jobs.