...This paper will discuss in detail the historical use of objective and projective terms in personality testing. This will include potential problems and reference to specific tests. There will be a specific personality test chosen in comparison to that of Meyer and Kurtz’s discussion on personality descriptors. A specific referral question for personality assessment will be chosen. There will also be demographic information of a potential client included as well. This will also define background data of the client and their current level of functioning pertaining to the presenting problem to be assessed. The literature review of 3 peer reviewed journals will also be provided to help as supporting material for the effectiveness of the chosen...
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...MEMORANDUM TO: Executive Management FROM: Michelle Collins DATE: May 26, 2014 SUBJECT: New Company Department and Team Leadership CC: Board of Directors As the organization grows, it depends more and more on the employees and the management they receive. As such, the use of teams seems like the best course of action to achieve the goals and vision of the company. Of utmost priority is the productivity of the employees on the team and therefore, the personalities of the team members must be reviewed to ensure they function in the roles that best match their outlook. To measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the employees, or their productivity, each should be reviewed with regard to their level of comfort with others; are they internal processors or external processors (Robbins, S., & Coulter, M., 2012, p. 373)? Additionally, are they more intuitive or more observant? As each person’s personality plays a crucial role in a team, the correct job for each must be decided in order to keep the team member engaged and interested in the long-term goals. A challenge to the group dynamic is the development of the group. The normal stages of development include the forming stage in which we are currently engaged. The next expected stage is that of the storming stage where conflict may arise as the hierarchy of the group comes into view. The final three stages include the norming stage, the performing stage and finally the adjourning stage. Working with...
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...an online test that proposes to find your talents best suited for development. Another personality test in a sea of others, Strengths Finder does little to distinguish itself. Through poor wording, ambiguity, and no fact checks available, Strengths Finder 2.0 does not seem to cross the finish line. Abstract Strengths Finder 2.0, an online test that proposes to find your talents best suited for development. Another personality test in a sea of others, Strengths Finder does little to distinguish itself. Through poor wording, ambiguity, and no fact checks available, Strengths Finder 2.0 does not seem to cross the finish line. Stengths Finder 2.0 Finding Strengths or Exposing Weakness? Stengths Finder 2.0 Finding Strengths or Exposing Weakness? Summary Ready to leap tall buildings with a single bound? You need to find your strengths and focus your improvement efforts on them. By gaining insight on your strengths you can accelerate your improvements and gain the inside track on advancement. You need Strengths Finder 2.0! Tom Rath’s Strengths Finder 2.0 promises all that and more. The book is really the “box” for Gallup’s home grown personality test. By purchasing the book you gain access to Gallup’s Strength Finder online test. The box serves as a vessel for the access code used to take the test and provides an explanation for its results after you take it. The book is broken down in to two sections. In the first you are given the many reasons for why the test is good and...
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...to suggest him what should be the steps he should follow (roadmap) to be a successful life coach recognized internationally. He would also like to develop a personality test which covers multiple areas and help people find their unique talents, strengths and passion. There are some existing tests in this area, such as MBTI, DISC, Big 5, Strengths-finder, Lumina Spark, Six human need test, etc. However, each of them is limited to particular areas and doesn’t give an overall picture. So, the individual has to take all the tests one by one and hence, faces lot of difficulty in combining and understanding the results. He wants to combine existing tests and would like to create a super-test which will help the individual get an overall picture about him in several areas. He has some ideas in mind, but looking for more suggestions. Make a "working" business plan, which must include the following: a) A powerful Mission statement and vision statement b) Product Details • What are the different offerings / programs / products (online or offline) that he should offer and a brief write-up on each of the programs in terms of its purpose and what are the things that he should cover in that program • Which personality tests should he combine and how he should name the final parameters / personality traits that are generated from the test? • Unique Selling proposition (USP) c) Marketing plan • Best Target Market and potential customers who can benefit from his training • How should he position...
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...Professional Presence and Influence Professional presence is something of a nebulous concept. Before this course, I honestly never considered what it was and how my nursing practice was defined by it. During my journey through this course I discovered what it truly meant. “Presence is an intersubjective encounter between a nurse and a patient in which the nurse encounters the patient as a unique human being in a unique situation and chooses to spend her/himself on the patient’s behalf’’ (Wingate, 2007). Presence defines how a person interacts with those around them, and particularly in the healthcare field, it’s incredibly important. A1. Two models of health and healing In the history of modern medicine, practitioners have evolved their methods in which they treated patients and their illnesses. With achievements and advancements in science came advancements in medicines and treatments for disease. With this advancement also came the advancement on how we, as medical practitioners, treated people as human beings. We gained a greater understanding throughout history of what it means to be human and have changed our medicine and care-giving practices accordingly. One of the first models that that we used in medicine and nursing was the physical body model of health. At this time in history, health, disease, and illness were thought to be totally caused by something physically wrong within the human body. If someone was ill, everything had a physical cause, and therefore a physical...
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...Professional Presence & Influence Janene Mills Loga Western Governor's University Professional Presence and Influence C351 Professional Presence & Influence Introduction In these days of HCAHPS scores, and patient satisfaction being tied to reimbursement, it can be vitally important for the success of a healthcare facility, to have nurses who strive for quality relationships with their patients because this can influence the perception of the care received. A very important part of this is the professional presence the nurse conveys. A nurse’s professional presence is uniquely personalized; it is influenced by their own views on health and medicine, individual personality traits, how mindful they are in their practice, and in the type of healing environment in which they may be practicing. Professional Presence Models of Health and Healing Dr. Larry Dossey, MD describes his theory of Western Medicine as having three Eras’. (Dossey) Era One, which he states to have started in the 1860’s and continued to the 1940’s. Era Two, which he proposes to have begun in the post World War II period to recent times. Era Three is the most recent which he states is an emerging shift to a new focus which he calls “Transpersonal Medicine”. In Era One, Dr. Dossey describes the practice of medicine as being only physical in nature. He equates this era as focusing on the body and mind, and their functioning only in a physical way, not related to one another. He describes...
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...* Personality is “an individual’s unique constellation of consistent behavioral traits”. * A personality trait is “a durable disposition to behave in a particular way in a variety of situations”. * Common personality traits include: * honest * moody * Impulsive * Friendly * Sum total of the qualities and characteristics of a person as shown in her manner of walking, talking, dressing, and her attitudes, interests, and ways of reacting to other people * The unique, relatively enduring internal and external aspects of a person’s character that influence behavior in different situations Theory * General principle formulated to explain a group of related phenomena * A model of reality that helps us to understand, explain, predict, and control that reality * Is an integrated set of general principles designed to explain, predict, and even suggest ways of controlling certain phenomena Personology * the study of personality * The point of view that all behavior should be studied in relation to the central core of personality Personologist * One who is skilled in the science of personology * One who is trained to analyze a person’s personality on the basis of the structure and form of his / her body. Aspects of Personality PHYSICAL ASPECTS * Refers to the body built, height, weight, texture of the skin, shape of the lips MENTAL ASPECTS * Refers to the range of ideas a person expresses...
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...the proper testing in order to evaluate all candidates in a proper fashion (www.selectivehiring.com). The organization used in this assignment is a particular judiciary system within the United States. This system employs thousands of employees. Due to this testing for candidates must be concise but must also not affect any legalities that could appear due to improper testing methods. The first thing that is done is separating the various positions into separate categories (www.selectivehiring.com). I will recommend 3 different avenues for testing possible candidates. These are cognitive, physical, and personality. These types of testing can prove to be very important to any hiring manager and/or authority within an organization. 1. The first form is known as cognitive testing. This type of testing is important in order to test candidates on their...
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...Psy/250 Version 6 Professor Wilkerson Personality Reflection Personality cares for the important, strong measures of a human being’s psychological vitality. Traits relates to an individual being merry or depressed, active or care less, brilliant or ignorant. There are many different definitions about personality. Most definitions are on mental system which is a cluster of mental pieces implicating purposes, feelings, and thinking patterns. The meanings alternate a little as to what those pieces may be, it comes to the concept that traits have patterns or worldwide operation mental systems. Let’s read a few of systems: "Personality is the entire mental organization of a human being at any stage of his development. It embraces every phase of human character: intellect, temperament, skill, morality, and every attitude that has been built up in the course of one's life." (Warren & Carmichael, 1930, p. 333) (In an acknowledged overstatement...) "Personality is the essence of a human being." (Hall & Lindzey, 1957, p. 9, characterizing statements by Gordon Allport) "An individual's pattern of psychological processes arising from motives, feelings, thoughts, and other major areas of psychological function. Personality is expressed through its influences on the body, in conscious mental life, and through the individual's social behavior." (Mayer, 2005) When first reading the assignment on writing a paper about key personality, many thoughts came to mind. More question...
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...Describe Last week, Ms Soon asked us to do personality test to see which respective role we are in. After doing the test, the result told me that I am a thinker. Today we were asked to form team of fives with each of every role in the team. After forming the team, we were asked to do the task assigned by our tutor. Interpret The objectives of doing all these is to make sure that all the team have the gender balanced so that we can understand each other well. This is also to prepare us in the future where we can easily work in groups. Team is crucial because it engages in some goal-oriented activity while also striving for good social relations and a general state of well-being (Tyson,1989). Evaluate I felt quite shocked after knowing that I am a thinker which I think it is quite true. Besides, I was quite satisfied with the team selection process because I am able to team with people that have different knowledge and also gender balanced. Plan My plan is to tell my group to work in accordance to their purpose because people working in accordance with their purpose are far more likely to seek to contribute something greater to the world through their work (Frehse,2003). I also plan to forgive everyone after knowing that they did wrong because we are working as a team. References Tyson, T , 1998, Working with Groups, 2nd edn, Macmillan Education, Melbourne. Frehse, W, 2003, Manage Your Own Career-Reinvent your job, Pearson Prentice Hall, Frenchs Forrest,...
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...for and against the use of personality tests in management. Personality testing is a tool used by many national and international organisations in evaluating candidates for the Selection and Hiring processes. Some Managers use them as a tool to evaluate the types of employees they have within the company, which employees they want more of and some companies even go as far as using these personality tests in promoting people. The number of companies that use these personality tests as part of their Human Resource functions, especially when the validity, reliability of results obtained by these tests is questionable, is alarming. Studies have shown that personality is unrelated to job performance, which shows personality can make no constructive contribution to management. When research can prove that these tests are not useful predictors of performance, why then do companies insist on using them? I suspect because administering psychological assessments give the assessor a feeling of power, control and importance. In contrast some studies have stated personality is likely to influence behaviour in weak situations which occurs when there is ambiguity in the meaning of the situation, where incentives for a particular response are unclear or absent. Strong situations are those that lead people to act in more or less the same way due to expectations and reward systems. Organisations are mainly strong situations, meaning the influence of personality on behaviour is nonexistent...
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...Personality In my own words, I would say that personality is made up of the characteristic patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make each and every individual their own unique person. In addition to this, personality arises from within the individual and remains fairly consistent throughout life. Some key personality features that define me, would be Honesty, Responsibility, Loyalty, Being Open-minded, Very Compassionate, Dedicated, Adventurous, Independent, and I love to cook and spend more time alone then around others. I can say that I ‘am an antisocial person at times. I love to make sure that everyone is happy and treated equally. Expressed sensing personality type, slightly expressed feeling personality type, and moderately expressed judging type. I suppose these are key concepts or construct’s that * are used to explain my personality. I believe myself that I ‘am observant, cooperative, * * responsible, informative, and expressive. If I had someone under my care such as * * children or a husband I believe that my main focused and concern will be on their well- * * being, their health and welfare. * * * My personality features are consistent majority of the time; if they were to change it * * would in fact have to be according to the situation I find myself in. My personality is * * ideal and unique in its own way, I find it that I have my own sense of style and...
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...HELEN UECKERMANN STUDENT NO: 45492832 PYC4807: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT ASSIGNMENT 05: Assessment in an industrial context Closing date: 11 July 2011 CONTENTS SECTION A 1. Introduction 2. Competencies 3. Core competencies of successful accountants 3.1 Skill-related competencies (SPEEX) 3.2 Personality-related competencies (16PF) 4. The role of situational, personality and interest measures in establishing the core competencies of interviewees 4.1 Situational tests 4.2 Personality tests 4.3 Interest tests 4.3.1 The Self-Directed Search (SDS) 4.3.2 The MB-10 5. Approaching the process to appoint a suitable candidate 5.1 Components of the selection process 5.1.1 CV Screening 5.1.2 Reference checking 5.1.3 Short-listing 5.1.4 Competency based interviewing 5.1.5 Psychological assessment 5.1.6 Second interview 5.1.7 Appointment SECTION B References SECTION A 1. Introduction The aim of this essay is to critically discuss the importance of a job description by highlighting five important competencies that are relevant to the job description of an accountant, the use of various types of measures in the industrial context, and the process followed in selection, placement and development of employees. The modern work environment is competitive and employers need to be strategic in their hiring strategy. According to Bennie and Huang (2010) it is important for organisations...
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...Personality Reflection Paper Ronald Aliangan PSY/250 September 13th, 2014 My personality can be defined as an amiable person that really cares about others. I am outgoing, sensitive, emotional, and direct. I have been known to put other people’s needs in front of my own. I am not usually short on things to say. Also I love being around friends and family, but also really love to have my alone time. I have two older sisters that ironically have very different personalities then mine but they are both very similar to one another. All of my life I have been a popular person that excelled at athletics, and have been a bit defined by that sadly enough. I also have a creative side. I like painting, drawing, and playing the guitar. As I know, this is a vast way of defining my personality, but I feel this is the best way that I know how. My key personality features are that I am outgoing, charismatic, friendly, loving, and impatient. Some concepts that people may use when explaining me would be, “bull in a china shop”, and “hard on the outside but soft on the inside”. Generally I different around everyone. There is a significant difference in the way I act around my friends and family opposed to the way I would act around a person that had quite a bit of age on me, at least in the topics I would discuss and the way I would discuss them. I would be lying if I said that I didn’t act different around the oposite sex then when I am just hanging out...
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...Worksheet: Part 1 Your task is to find and take at least three personality inventories. You can easily find these types of inventories online. You can also find these types of inventories in many different popular magazines. If you choose to search online, here are some ideas of verbiage to type into a search engine: • Personality inventories test • Personality inventory color analysis • Big five personality test • Dessert personality test • Emotional intelligence test • TV characters personality test • Assessing Your Real and Ideal Self-Concept (in your textbook, Module 30) • Life Orientation Test (in your textbook, Module 31) After you have taken at least three personality tests, analyze your results. Answer the following questions: • Which test was the most interesting to take? The most interesting one I took was a personality test, telling me what I already know, but it added a twist. • Which test best assessed your personality? I couldn’t find it again on google, but it broke down what I liked to do in my free time and how I would react in a group of people. • Were any of the tests you took completely wrong or inaccurate? One of the test that I took, it asked what my sign was and when I put in Aries, every other question was based off of my sign and when I got the results, I would say that everything was on point. • Were any of the tests you took silly or only for fun? Did those tests give you anything serious to think about or reflect on? I tried...
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