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Essay on Business Efficiency: Factors Affecting Employee Efficiency
In reaction to poor performance issues, companies will sometimes offer their employees top-notch training that has little or no effect on the participants’ job performance. Management may blame the ineffectiveness of the training on the training program or the trainer, when in fact the training effort was not the correct resolution to the problem in the first place. If training is definitely not the answer, the trainer must identify the root cause (or causes) of the problem and pass this information on to management.
Personality
First, let's discuss the subject of personality. There is no definitive model for personality, but the model that comes closest is referred to as the "Big Five" dimensions of personality. Some authors refer to this as the five factor model of personality (Tessa, 1999). This model is not a new discovery, it can trace it's origin to an idea that Sir Francis Galton had in the late 1800's to identify the words people use to describe each other (Christopher, 1999).
The five factor model is a taxonomical model of personality. In other words, it attempts to catalog personality factors rather than determine their origin. In this model, the five factors of personality are:
- Conscientiousness
- Extraversion-Introversion
- Agreeableness
- Emotional Stability
- Openness to Experience
There are many taxonomical models of personality. One of the more common models is the model developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs based upon the theories of Carl Jung. Their resulting instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is still commonly used to help team members understand individual differences (Tessa, 1999).
In recent years, the five factor model has been used in an attempt to reduce the proliferation of models. Although there are still some problems with this model, it is useful to help understand individual differences. A number of research studies, for instance...........
