Personality And Organizational Leadership Tests

Researchers correlate effective organizational leadership with certain characteristics. McHugh (2009) stated that “there may be no other feature of American life that contains as much bias toward extroversion as leadership.” This means that debate still exists whether or not introverts may be effective as leaders compared to extroverts. Some researches would argue that introverts are more reserved and prefer to work alone without the aid of anyone else. Introverts are also believed to appear helpless and have a tendency to be submissive (Costa & McCrae, 1992, as cited in Bernerth, Armenakis, Field, Giles, & Walker, 2007). Furthermore, because of an introvert’s desire for independence, this would indicate that

2 of Understanding and Managing Organizational Behavior: Exhibit 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 MGT 312 WEEK 2 Personality Impact Paper

Everyday we ask ourselves, “Did I make the right decision?” Whether it is in regards to family, friends or co-workers we constantly do self assessments. Self-assessment is defined as a process through which individuals gain knowledge about themselves. This includes information about their likes and dislikes as well as their reactions to specific situations. By knowing more about themselves, individuals can be able to determine the work situations and occupations that are most appropriate for them. There are several lessons that can be learnt from self-assessment in relation to individual decision making. This research paper will examine reveal the lesions learned from self assessment. We will observe of the influence of the American

For this assignment, I have decided to use the leadership trait, skills and style questionnaires. For this questionnaire, I asked 5 different people that know me in different contexts in life, such as personal, school, and work environments. For the majority, I rated myself higher on the traits than my fellow colleagues. On some of the traits however, I was rated higher than what I thought. Overall, I averaged a 4/5 which means that everyone agreed with the traits that were given. For the style questionnaire, I found out that I place more emphasis in building relationships rather than completing tasks. Finally, the skills questionnaire, my leadership skills are in the high range for technical skills, and my human and conceptual skills are in the moderate range.

As I reflect back on my Air Force career, especially my current duty position as the Section Chief of the Small Air Terminal at Hill Air Force Base. I realized that I am a Management by Exception-Active (MBE-A) this came to me after I reviewed my Electronic Self-Assessment of Leadership behavior. At my current assignment I keep my subordinates and processes in control and I enforce all the Air Force standards as well as local policies in my organization. When it comes to the mission I avoid unnecessary risks and always ensure the mission is complete. My goal for the next three to five years is to improve my leadership effectiveness and become a transformational leader using the five most valuable concepts I learned in Course 15. These concepts are avoiding conflict, cognitive flexibility, communication, subordinate-centered communication and mediation.

During this past week, I completed my leadership traits assessment and tallied the results from my friends and coworkers. This process was interesting because it has been several years since I have completed an activity like this one. My results were as follows, I received my highest ratings in being persistent, determined, trustworthy, dependable, friendly, diligent, and conscientious. On the other hand, my lowest scores are in self-confident, self-assured, and perceptive. These results were not surprising to me because they are developmental opportunities that I have been working to overcome. It was good to see that what my results are consistent with what I already knew.

It is virtually impossible for a team to be truly effective or successful without the individual personalities that make up the team taking the time to develop the best way to work together. Our textbook defines organizational behavior (OB) as “a field of study that investigates the impact that individuals, groups, and structure have on behavior within organizations, for the purpose of applying such knowledge toward improving an organization’s effectiveness” (Robbins & Judge, p. 10). The benefits and deficiencies of personality that each person possesses should all be determined and strategically positioned to best suit the team or task at hand. As stated by Dr. Kahlib J. Fischer, “So it is important that you understand your own behavioral tendencies and the behavioral tendencies of other individuals if you really want to understand how organizations behave and how they should behave according to God’s purpose” (Fisher, 2006). For the purposes of this paper, we will take an in depth look at my personal inventory assessment results and provide recommendations for growth in corporate, spiritual and personal areas.

During my self-assessment of my working style, I found it difficult to choose statements that related to how I viewed myself. It was most likely difficult because I did not really understand myself in the first place. After

In the following assessments: DISC Index and the Jung Typology (Myers-Briggs) Personality was available for me to test my personality and my behavioral traits. Within these results your limitations on life and the way you perceive certain values in life are determined and presented to the user through a substantial questionnaire. The DISC Index is more of a ranking type of questionnaire of a scenario while the Jung typology test is a 50-50, yes or no answer. Within these tests they can predict your traits as a leader and how you can improve your skills within any kind of setting. In reflection, this paper will go over the results of my assessment in both tests and trying to determine what they mean based off

Looking at data form the 2011 Canadian Election Study, this essay discusses the impact that leader traits and issues opinions have on evaluations of the three major party leaders. Bases on previous research, we expected to find that traits would have the largest impacts on leader evaluations, while issues would also have an impact, but a smaller one. Also based on previous research we expected that while there would be issues impacting the leader evaluations, the issues that mattered would vary between leaders. Using three multivariate regression models, we compared the relative impacts that of the issues and traits, while also controlling for ideology, being a Quebecer and if the

This paper is based upon the personality traits of Krispy Kreme’s and Pearson’s Chief Executive Officers; also known as CEOs. The two CEOs that will be discussed are Scott Livengood, who served as CEO of Krispy Kreme and Marjorie Scardino who served as CEO of Pearson. The two CEOs personality traits are explained in depth due to the importance of these traits. Personality traits are hereditary and also altered by the environments people associate with. These traits are important because they affect the way an individual acts when put into various situations. Studying the personality of a CEO allows us to predict their behavior and attitude towards their performance within the business. With that being said, this paper will explain how the personality

This paper will incorporate four of the self-assessment I completed (Leadership, 2004). They are as follows; social motives in the work setting, my leadership styles, emotional intelligence, and team excellence. I will also identify and discuss my leadership characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses. We must first understand what leadership means. To lead, nonetheless, is to excite, to impact, and to inspire. Successful leaders move others to draw in incredibleness, to stretch out themselves and to go past their perform work necessities by producing innovative thoughts. It has been said that directors are individuals who do things right and leaders are individuals who make the best choice." This refinement is to some degree exaggerated since successful leaders do a considerable measure of overseeing and compelling chiefs need to lead.

After completing the Assessment for Leadership and Personality on pages 16-19 of the Bell (2009) text, comment on the following: What roles of leadership did you find surprising and why? After reading your profile, what tasks of leadership do you think you will find easier? What will you find more difficult? Why?

There are many leadership styles and is important to know which style you are. There are many ways one can learn their leadership style, for example, through assessments. Knowing your leadership style will help you become a better leader. Although there are many leadership assessments our text discussed four assessments that can give insights into building blocks of personality most commonly identified by peers, subordinate employees, and supervisors (Ledlow, et al, 2014). These assessments include: Hemisphere Dominance assessments; Jungian assessments; Vark test; Struder Group; Price Group; and many

Self-awareness can be beneficial to the structure of an individual’s personal growth, their relationship with others, and a fulfilling career within an organization. The multiple self-assessments located on the McGraw-Hill Connect website provides a series of questions related to numerous topics throughout the textbook that will permit me to know more about myself. This report will identify unique personality tools that will measure the extent of my character to aid in self-growth and possibly expand my career performance within my organization. And after answering these questions, as honestly as possible, I have gained further insight as to who I have become as an individual, how my personality affects my relationships with my