Self Assessment Library Personality Results

This paper focuses on my Prentice Hall Self-Assessment Library personality results. My Jungian personality reveals I am extrovert, intuitive, feeling and judging “ENFJ”. The personality test has been integral part in shaping my workplace behavior and interactions with others. After completing the self-assessment, I realized several traits about my goals, personality values, and communication. Also, the results conveyed how I can develop my weaknesses to grow into a better professional, leader, and friend in my daily work life and activities. Becoming a better listener allows for managers to clearly understand their personnel and aids in developing a cohesive relationship. One way a manager succeeds through their team is by delegation.

According to Self-Assessment Library, “conscientiousness is someone who is responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented. High scores indicate that you pursue fewer goals in a purposeful way” (Self-Assessment Library 1.1, 2008). As I review the results in part one, the results support my goal-oriented trait. During my senior year of high school, I established short term and long-term goals for reaching retirement at an early age through budgeting, real estate investing and contributing towards my retirement account. Per the results, I am described to have a type A personality, which describes me as “strong need to get a lot done in a short time period and difficult to get a long with because they are so driven” (Self Assessment Library 1.3, 2008). I agree with the type A personality at work because I prefer to stay busy with a lot of tasks rather than just have a few. Also, I feel a stronger sense of accomplishment by having more tasks and completing the tasks as soon as I can. At work I supervise a team of nine members, and this has allowed me to have the privilege of developing my leadership skills and become a mentor to my

Understanding my strengths and weaknesses is a useful tool to manage personnel. According to Fischer, “organizational commitment has some relation to performance” (Fischer, slide 7). I learned specifically that I operate too fast on projects because of my type A personality. Operating too quickly on projects contributes towards failing to make critical decisions and brainstorm the most effective way to execute a task. This is important because if you are leading people, then there is risk of allowing unnecessary work. For managers it is important to understand the organizational behavior of a workplace. According to Wicker & Breuer (2013), “the results showed that human, financial, infrastructure, and cultural resources were important drivers of organizational problems” (Wicker & Breuer, 2013, p. 481). Based on the research, there are several factors that contribute to organizational problems. By understanding ones personality and workplace culture this will help mitigate these types of problems to become a better