Individual Differences in The Workplace (Essay Sample)

Individual Differences in The Workplace
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Individual Differences In The Workplace
For this project, I will seek to apply the concepts I have studied from the background materials to my own personal workplace experiences. I will be looking on my two current coworkers Tracy and John who have unique personalities. These are two people that I have worked with closely in the human resource department of a project management company. I am close enough to my coworkers that I have been able to get a good idea of their personality traits and workplace attitudes. The background materials that we have been using in class touches on personality traits and attitudes. This paper will discuss how these personality traits and attitudes apply to my two coworkers.
I will use a Big Five Personality test to describe how each of my coworker’s personality fits into the five different human personality dimensions described in Chapter 3 of Understanding of individual behavior textbook. The first dimension discussed is openness to experience which displays that high scores are apt to originality, complex, creative and curious while low scorers tend to be uncreative, conventional, narrow interest and down to earth.
Tracy scores about 80 to 95 in developing innovative experiences and looking things in different ways (Reaume, 2009). The second dimension is responsibility and consciousness reflected by Tracy’s score that can range from 85 to 95. This is because she portrays a personal trait of great reliability and she is the most well organized person that I have ever interacted with. Because of being responsible, she is able to take psychological ownership of what she says and does. She also reveals commitment to steady values such as loyalty and honesty (Means, et al. 2011).
The third dimension of the Big Five Aspects of Personality is Agreeableness which is a trait best portrayed by John. I can score to John 93 down to 85 for this trait. He portrays this trait because he is a supportive person, courteous, has high ability to consider the feelings of others as well as he has such a good nature in viewing things. This also contributes to his attitude about his work a subject that will be discussed in the next question. The fourth dimension is futuristic where John scores 95 while Tracy score 90. This is because John portrays stronger futuristic theme. The fifth dimension is belief where both of my coworkers scores highly above 90 because they both demonstrate unchanging core values in their work (Aswathappa, 2010).
My coworkers Tracy and John have a positive workplace attitudes including job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Tracy and John are self-motivated and often displays attitude of high self-value in the company. This makes it easy for them when they ar...