1 16 15 Lecture 2 Personality and Individual Differences What is Personality o An individual s unique and relatively stable pattern of behavior thoughts and emotions Comes from heredity and genetics not necessarily environment Personality Tests in Hiring Can t change personality o Benefits can reduce bias can help determine whether perspective employee is right for o Drawbacks wrong tests can increase bias or open up company to liability instruments the job are not that great Big 5 Personality Dimensions o Conscientiousness o Emotional Stability o Agreeableness o Extraversion o Openness to Experience MBTI o 4 dimensions Extroverted introverted Sensing intuition Feeling Thinking Judging perceiving to everyone and accepted o Has vanilla paragraph at the end general description of something that can be applied o Sticks you into one category or another even if you re in the middle of a category o Your perception of yourself will determine answers to test May get a lot of personal value out of it Criticisms of Personality Tests o Organizations read too much into results o Instruments can be easy to game o Often not correlated with high performance