The Candidate Has a Great Personality!
From the Eye on the Workforce Blog
by Joe Wynne
Workforce management is a key part of project success, but project managers often find it difficult to get trustworthy information on what really works. From interpersonal interactions to big workforce issues we'll look the latest research and proven techniques to find the most effective solutions for your projects.
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Is high job satisfaction what leads to a high-performing employee? Not necessarily, according to Nathan Bowling, Ph.D., psychology at Wright State. His recent study shows that satisfaction and performance are correlated, but high job satisfaction does not cause high performance.
Bowling says that both are the result of personality characteristics. Examples of personality characteristics are:
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self-esteem
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emotional stability
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extroversion
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conscientiousness
So in your selection process for any job, make sure you evaluate personality characteristics as they apply to the day-to-day work in that job. And, if you have to find someone from elsewhere in the organization to take a job in your project, check with the previous manager and coworkers to confirm the candidate's personality characteristics are compatible with your job.
Posted on: February 12, 2009 10:13 PM |
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People tend to make a name for themselves in their organisation, the good people standout, the word goes around of their competencies and friendly faces. Moody, aggressive and even a subdued personality can hinder progress, I do agree that evaluating personality characteristics prior to giving a person a job in projects is ideal, however, we may not have a choice - this person has excellent skill sets but may not mix well nor work well with others, what is the answer? do we refuse? do we request external resource? or do we lead and manage them? the latter is my preference.
From a psychology point of view [I am not a psychologist, learned through life experiences] some people tend to adapt their personality characteristics to fit-in with others, to be liked. Bad experiences can change people too that may lead to low self-esteem perhaps through bad management experience, anything can trigger off a personality change during one's life time. Job references is a very good example, no decent company will provide a bad reference, nor do they go into detail of personality as is damming that could end up in court.
So in our selection process the interview is key - you will either be impressed or not - some personality will come out during the interview session from body language and speech. My question - Is what you see is what you get?
Thank you
Vasoula
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