By Knowing More About Employees' Personalities, Does It Help Managers to Manage Them?

By knowing more about employees’ personalities, does it help managers to manage them?

Introduction

In this paper, I am going to find out how the managers can have a better management by knowing more about employees’ personality? First of all, some key words need to be clearly defined. Personality is a person’s characteristics in psychological view which influence someone responds, communicates with people. Traits are some particular quality in person’s character and fundamental characters are parts which important to make up of personality. Consequently, we should know someone personality by beginning investigating and analyzing their basic traits. Then, we can have deeper understanding about those persons.

Why we need to study personality when doing management?

Personality is important psychological elements which influencing how staff act in an organization. “Managerial performance is largely composed of task completion and relationship building (e.g. Conway, 1999). Both of these performance dimensions have intuitive links to various attributes of persons, such as personality traits.” Which stated in a journal from American Psychological Association of applied psychology. This journal stated the how important knowing personality of employees in management.

Measurement of personality

Personality or personality traits theories are explained in many journal and publications. Then, I discuss about personality from two different theories, which are the humanistic approach theory and the Big Five Personality Model theory.

We have to know how personality developed when we discuss about personality. According to the humanistic approach theory from a humanistic psychologist Roger, “development of a person personality is mainly affected by their childhood experience.” Hence, from Roger’s opinion, “persons’ personalities vary with different amount of parents’ love received by each of them.” There is an example that if a person receives love and support from parents only when the person complies to their parents’ prospects in his/her childhood, the person will feel not confident in him/herself and comparatively insecure in getting along with others.

A person’s personality can be clearly identified by Big Five Personality Model. “The five factor model is related to the overall performance of job by employees.” which from Sean P. Neubert of Rochester Institute of Technology. The Five Factor Model divided personality into 5 aspects that are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. Firstly, a person who gets high scores in this aspect means that the person is imaginative, independent and receptive to new concept and idea. Secondly, a person who has are more conscientiousness means he