Explain the impact of an individual's personality on work performance
One’s individual personality has a great influence on the work performance. Different personality factors have a direct influence on one’s job performance. Factors like extroversion versus introversion, self-esteem, conscientiousness and stability influence one’s execution of learnt skills. Some personality factors result in undesirable tensions between employees in the organization. Such tensions are costly when interpreted in the context of superior-subordinate relations, employee-employer relations and peer relations. These organizational conflicts cause low turnover and job dissatisfaction (Barrick & Ryan, 2003).
Different personality types have different features. Some of these features arouse different reactions in different people. For instance, ...