Personality Combination

Question: Discuss the upsides and the downsides of the pattern of the five dimensions or traits of your personality. Answer: Personality is a combination of traits as described by the trait theorists. Conscientiousness, openness to experience, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism are the five traits of Big Five Personality Traits, which helps a person to know their personality (Leutner et al., 2014). I took the personality test based on this theory, and the scores reveal the reflection on my emotion, thought, behavior and habitual patterns. The score for the trait openness to experience" was 24, which shows that I am an open-minded person, who loves variety in all things, I love to dare things, quite imaginative and adventurous toward life. Conscientiousness was my first lowest score and this trait s all about being more responsible, reliable, organized and careful. The score shows that I am very messy and do not organize my things well. I could cite an example to this is that I always keep papers in my books and bags and could not find at a time. Extraversion was my second lowest score and this trait is more about being sociable, friendly, and mostly people oriented. The fourth trait agreeableness had my second highest score which showed that I am very good by heart, kind nature, considerate and cooperative. The last trait Neuroticism had my highest score which revealed that I am very emotional, anxious, and highly temperamental. Clarity is one of the strengths of this theory. Following this, objectivity is the other s trength which makes this theory a demandable one. This theory could not predict the persons behavior in future as it cannot address the development of the trait. Unlike other personality traits, this theory mainly focuses differences between people. This factor led to the downfall of theory. Conscientiousness, Openness, and extroversion traits are involved in effective leadership. According to my personality score on the above three traits, it was seen that I could become a capable leader and can manage my team efficiently. To have the good team with these traits, then I would be looking for employees' personality which would fit into the company culture, I would also look for employees who could pair up with the exiting one (Cogliser et al., 2012). In the work, these trait leads to job satisfaction, and it also influences job performance, it motivates people towards their job and also improve the cognitive ability. These traits in school strongly influence personality and academic sessions. By exploring the literature, it has been seen that these traits strongly affects the environment in the school. References: Cogliser, C. C., Gardner, W. L., Gavin, M. B., Broberg, J. C. (2012). Big five personality factors and leader emergence in virtual teams relationships with team trustworthiness, member performance contributions, and team performance.Group Organization Management,37(6), 752-784. Leutner, F., Ahmetoglu, G., Akhtar, R., Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2014). The relationship between the entrepreneurial personality and the Big Five personality traits.Personality and individual differences,63, 58-63.