Monday, January 26, 2009

Is personality view needed in organization?

The manager should consider the personality test score before hiring. This is because the result will reflect the effective and efficiency of their work.

Many a job specification will call for a person with certain personality characteristic such as friendly, cooperative to do the work in a group or team and organization. How do you know the applicant have these traits? We can know the applicants characteristic/traits through the interview or personality test. Through interview, the panel of interviewers can test the applicant’s knowledge of the field of activities they are intending to carry out. The panels can also interpret applicants personality through their dress code, speaking, how they response or give opinion/ideas and so on.

Normally, the organization should only be carried out by qualified person to interview or do the personality test. Personality plays major role in person’s ability to perform satisfactorily for managerial level position. The result of personality test should always be treated with caution by organization. A well designed test will have built in systems to prevent applicants faking but even some candidates are able to guess the types of answer which would point to their having personality traits acceptable to the recruiting organization.

Besides interview, the organization also uses projective test like the ink blot test. But they are less to be used in job applicant screening by experience psychologist and highly qualified. Then, some of organization uses other ways to test applicant personality through form such as the study of hand writing. Of course, qualified professional is needed to identify applicant’s personality.

Moreover, personality test also consist of series of question which the applicant must answer in a given time period. Example, in a group, do you introduce yourself or wait to be introduced? So, how the candidates answer the question shows their personality.

In conclusion, personality test should be considered by the manager before hiring new workers. When the personality test is done, as the result we can know the types of personality of candidates.

3 comments:

Fallin' love with OB said...
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Fallin' love with OB said...

salam..yeah from your blog we understand how important personality tests score is and looks like your group agree with the test right?Emm but
every single thing has pro and cons isn't?hah think think

FULLSTOP!! said...

it is ok but try to make it more simple so we can see your opinion clearly. nice job.