LEADERSHIP

Leadership

Leadership

Introduction

Today there are many organizations that want to improve their company or their employees. Many options are available for both the employee and organization. Organizations can provide personality tests to help find more about an employee. This paper will discuss three articles that discuss personality tests, transformational leadership, and assessments. The articles selected for the purpose of this assignment are listed in the reference section.

Section 1

Article one is on personality and how it is measured in organizational research. This article is framed as a series of seven questions. The seven questions address personality and multidimensional models of performance, personality taxonomies and the five-factor model, the effects of situations on personality performance relationships, the incremental validity of personality over cognitive ability, the need to differentiate personality constructs from personality measures, the concern with faking on personality tests, and the use of personality tests in attempting to address adverse impact.

Article two is regarding transformational leadership. In the past two decades transformational leadership have evolved into one of the most popular approaches to understanding leader effectiveness.

Article three is in regard to understanding and predicting human behavior in the workplace. Assessments are aimed at characterizing or describing the status of individuals, collections of individuals and organizations.

Section 2

Article One

Personality tests can aid in improving creativity, innovation, and job performance. Personality tests can predict if an employee's absenteeism, team performance, task performance, and much more. Personality tests are used to help determine how ones personality relates to his or her career choices. (Hough & Oswald, 2008)

Every person on the face of this earth has a certain personality. But not so certain that every person has a unique personality. Personalities can be broken down into groups ranging from one extreme to the other. Psychologists have helped aid a person in finding what personality type they are by using personality test. Finding one's personality can be very hard when the person does not know whom they really are. To fully understand and analyze your personality type you have to first know who you are and exactly what you do or would do in situations. I plan to take several different personality tests to see if they are consistent.

According to the first personality test I took told me I was an ESTJ, which stands for Extrovert, Sensor, Thinker and Judger. A summary of an ESTJ can be described as a person that is responsible likes to take charge, they are very good at organization and at seeing what will not work, they like to get things done and focus on results, and they are realists. The second personality test believed I had an ENTJ personality, Extrovert, Intuition, Thinker and Judger. A brief statement about ENTJ is a person that may not get enough praise, enjoys helping others, is an excellent leader, is hard working, speaks very well, may be workaholics, likes to learn and is great planners. The last personality test I took returned with the same results as the first, ...