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This Week’s Assignments
Paper: Big Five Personality Types
Due December17, 5:59 PM
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Complete the "What Is My Big Five Personality Profile?" self-assessment.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you address the following:
Do you agree with the results of your assessment?
Based on the results of your assessment, what do you see as your strengths and weaknesses?
How might your personality type influence your job performance?
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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Job satisfaction has a moderately strong, negative relationship with turnover.
This finding suggests that managers are well served to reduce turnover by trying to enhance employees’ job satisfaction. This recommendation is even more important for high performers.
Practical steps employers can take to tackle a turnover problem. Managers can reduce voluntary turnover if they
Hire people who “fit” within the organization’s culture.
Spend time fostering employee engagement. Engaged employees are less likely to quit.
Provide effective onboarding. Onboarding programs help employees to integrate, assimilate, and transition to new jobs by making them familiar with corporate policies, procedures, culture, and politics by clarifying work-role expectations and responsibilities.
Recognize and reward high performers because they are more likely to quit than average performers.
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Requirements Checklist (from grading guide)
Explains self-assessment and addresses five personality types.
The paper includes strengths and weaknesses.
The paper includes a discussion on how personality types can influence job performance.
The paper is 1,050 words in length.
Example Outline
I Introduction
A. What is the Big 5 Personality Traits Test?
B. Thesis: Based on my experience and research, the Big 5 test is accurate, but may fail to recognize the effects of environment and mood on certain traits.
C. In this paper I will discuss my own observations about the relationships between Big 5 test scores and personal strengths, with a specific focus on the how the trait of extroversion can vary across different settings.
II My Big 5 Scores
A. Extroversion
1. My score and what it means
2. How my score relates to my real-world strengths and weaknesses in this area and the implications for job performance
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B. Agreeableness
1. My score and what it means
2. How my score relates to my real-world strengths and weaknesses in this area and the implications for job performance
(Same format for all the following scores)
C: openness to experience
D. conscientiousness
E: emotional stability
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III. Criticisms of Big 5
A. Researchers have noted that certain traits are more variable than others (support with reference)
B. In my own experience, I have seen that I am more extroverted in some settings than others . . . for example . . .
IV. Conclusion
A. The Big 5 test can be a useful instrument for understanding ones strengths and weaknesses
B. However, the test has some limitations, and therefore should not be used by organizations to "pigeonhole" a person into a certain role forever
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References
1. DON’T cite Wikipedia, but . . .
2. DO use Wikipedia to find references from primary and peer reviewed sources
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