Impact of Employees' Personality Traits on Learning during Training and Job performance

Abstract

This research paper explores the benefits provided to employees during training and learning, and how personality traits contribute towards organizational goals and how these traits impact on learning process. Training submits to passing on specific task and knowledge. When these training change an individual's behavior, is called learning. Training and development contributes towards job performance. Personality builds need for growth and achievement.

Introduction4

Personality5

Measuring Personality5

Personality traits6

Extraversion6

Neuroticism6

Openness to Experience7

Agreeableness7

Conscientiousness7

Training8

Learning9

Job performance10

Conclusion11

References12

Impact of Employees' Personality Traits on Learning during Training and Job performance Introduction

An individual carry a number of diversity to work-place. They got a different type of values, attitudes, and personalities. When they come into an organization, their constant or changeable traits influences as how they perform, work and behave. Furthermore, when companies recruit people then they expect that employees are with certain abilities, skills, values and personalities. Bring to mind that learning about the principles of management in the course of Planning, Organizing, Leading and Controlling. Planning, organizing, leading and controlling are a frame work regarding employees attitudes, personalities, and behavior at work which affect the how manager handle and approaches the dimensions (The Principles of Management, 2010).

For instance when a manager conducts environmental scanning at some stage for planning procedure then his observation colors the information in a row that is processed and absorbed. Aspect of organizing may be a work of persons' values and personalities and preferences for job enrichment and for job design. Leading require effective understanding of employees values, attitude and personalities traits, like absenteeism can confront manager's ability to monitor and control the performance and costs. For that reason, it is very important to understand and get insight of employee's characteristics for both manager and employees behaviors.

Personality

Personality includes an individual's comparatively constant feelings, behavior pattern and thoughts. Every individual is unique and is with a unique personality that makes a distinction from other people. Understanding the other person's behaviors and personality provide us clue that how that person will likely to take action and feel in different situations and conditions.

To organize and manage employees/people effectively is very useful in order to understand diverse employees and having done so, it will be very easy for an organization to place the right person for the right job and they will be trained accordingly. Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness and neuroticism are the five big personality dimension on which organization do training usually. Important traits are monitoring, proactive nature, social, self esteem and self-efficacy.

Measuring Personality

Certified and trained professional measure personality on three criterion. Projective test, this requires an individual to explain what he or she sees in the picture or in any stimulus. Second measure is personality inventories; this requires an individual to answer the question which expresses the respondent personality. Third one is Simulation, stress interviews and role playing exercises. In this way, people's behavior in specific situations is observed such as dominance, assertiveness and adaptability.

Researchers have revealed that much attention in assessing ...