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There are many applications of personality assessment in life, specifically in the workplace. Personality assessment can provide details about how employees tend to view certain situations, how they may approach certain tasks, and their preference for communication style. With different approaches to understanding personality, there are multiple options for personality assessments.
Imagine your team has been asked to determine a theoretical approach to assessing the personality of employees at your organization. You must create a presentation for your human resources department to explain the theories and propose a theoretical approach to assessing employee personality.
Create a 2-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation on the theories presented this week. Your presentation should include:
slides 8-9
- A proposal of one theory as the chosen theoretical approach and rationale for proposing this approach over the others. (2 slides) With speaker notes.
Include a minimum of 1 source other than your textbook. Feist, J. (2017). Theories of Personality, 9th Edition
Format any citations within your presentation according to APA guidelines.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
Theoretical Approach
Jesse Patrick, Jessica Rankin, Rylin Gonciarz,
JIll Murphy, Tonia Darion
Gordon Allport’s
Approach to Personality
Theory
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Emphasized the uniqueness of the individual.
Categorized thousands of personality traits into three levels.
Believed motivation comes from present drives rather than the past.
Believed personality is both organized and influenced by the
environment.
Gordon Allport’s
Dispositions
Cardinal Disposition
Central Disposition
Secondary Disposition
Rarest disposition
5-10 traits that best describe
the individual
Least dominating of the
dispositions
Easily recognized by those
closest
Changes by situation
Sam receives 3 letters of
recommendation that all describe
him as “hardworking, honest,
friend...
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