Answer to Question #320944 in Management for preethi

Question

Performance of employees at the workplace depends on their personality traits. Describe

the five major traits that most researchers agree upon and explain how they lead to

meaningful workplace behaviour.

Answer 1

The personality variables that are being studied are the agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, openness to new experience and extroversion of employees in the workplace. These five factors are also present in the Big Five model of Personality Dimensions.

  Extraversion: implies an energetic approach to the social and material world and includes traits such as sociability, activity, assertiveness, and positive emotionality. This factor consists of emotions that can be said to be positive as well as an industrious personality and ability to relate well with others. Extraverts enjoy other peoples company and tend to be very active in group efforts. Whereas introverts are reserved, timid and quiet.

 Conscientiousness : describes socially prescribed impulse control that facilitates task and goal-directed behavior, such as thinking before acting, delaying gratification, following norms and rules, and planning, organizing, and prioritizing tasks.

 Emotional Stability: describes even-temperedness with negative emotionality, such as feeling anxious, nervous, sad, and tense. Individuals scoring low on Emotional Stability will experience bouts of mood swings triggered by frustrations by minor issues at the workplace.

 Openness to experience: describes the breadth, depth, originality, and complexity of an

individual’s mental and experiential life. This factor acts to distinguish conventional individuals from those who are in one way or the other imaginative. Traits linked to individuals who are open to experience include intellectual curiosity, sensitivity to beauty as well as responsiveness to art.

 Agreeableness: contrasts a pro-social and communal orientation toward others with antagonism and includes traits such as altruism, tender-mindedness, trust, and modesty. Highly agreeable people are cooperative, warm and trusting. People who score low on agreeableness are cold, disagreeable and antagonistic.