Personality And Employee Job Performance - 1277 Words

Topic: Personality and Employee Job Performance Introduction MARS Model indicates that motivation, ability, role perceptions and situational factors generally determine an individual’s performance. With the personality testing, such as Myer Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), being used widely by organisations in pre-employment, the relationship between personality and job performance seems stronger, comparing to the MARS Model era. In accordance with Penny et al.’s research (2011), however, the relationship between personality and performance is complicated. Earlier in 1990, Blinkhorn and Johnson’s research suggested that there was little evidence to ensure the higher personality testing score a person obtained, the better job performance†¦show more content†¦The conclusion that 50% of the variations were generic was not generally acknowledged because of the ascription that much of the greater similarity of monozygotic (MZ) twins compared to dizygotic (DZ) twins was the consequence of environmental effect. This ascript ion was widely accepted by the psychologists at that time (Thomas Bouchard 1994). In 2000, McCrae and his colleague concluded a notion that personality was more influenced by human biology (nature). Kandler’s research (2012) indicates that heritability appears more and more stable with the increase of age, leading to personality formation from childhood up to young adulthood. The most possible explanation of this phenomenon is that people form self-concept gradually when getting older (McShane, Olekalns Travaglione 2013). The researcher also claims that the development of personality will be shaped by external environment (nurture) to larger extent (Kandler 2012). After years of debates, most experts are now reaching an agreement that personality is affected by both nature and nurture, although the weight of each has been being studied and argued (McShane, Olekalns Travaglione 2013). People’s possession of personality traits is one of the most essential elements of personality theory. As the most widely recognised model of personality traits approach, the Five-Factor Model (FFM) has been transformed over a few decades, from a 17,000-word description in Roget’s