Why do organizations spend so much time and effort in assessing the personalities of their employees
Why do organisations spend so much time and effort in assessing the personalities of their employees? In order to establish why assessing personality is important to organizations it is important to consider perception, formal and informal groups, communication, transactional analysis and attitudes because together these factors combine to make a productive and useful employee which is of obvious benefit to an organization. ... One way of deducing an employees personality is with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), this will give four dimensions of psychological type: extraversion/introversion; sensing/intuition; thinking/feeling and; judgment/perception. ... Obviously different personalities are going to be better suited to different jobs. ... Organizations will want a range of personalities to ensure that all stimuli are taken care of and the “most important” stimuli have been dealt with first. Perception is important in organizations because ‘people’s behavior is based on their perception of what reality is, not reality itself.