Big Five Personality Types
Isaac J Latsko
BSGE1IEW33
September 21, 2015
Gregory Lucht
Big Five Personality Types
Self-Assessment Review
In my Big Five assessment I scored highest in Openness to Experience with a score of 10, followed closely with Emotional Stability, at a score of 9. Agreeableness and Extraversion were close runner-ups with a score of 8 and 7, respectively, and the lowest score, 3, was in the Conscientiousness category. According to this our textbook, the results of our assessment determines that I am intellectual, imaginative, open-minded, relaxed, and unworried. It claims I lack in responsibility and dependency (Kinicki & Fugate, 2016). Overall I have to agree with the assessment as I fit the category pretty well. However, I do not believe the assessment is entirely accurate. I wholeheartedly believe that personality types can be adapted to different situations, and assessments like these only capture a current ‘picture' of someone's personality. If I were to retake the assessment at work when I am supervising a group of people, I probably would have scored higher in the Conscientious category. But I think the overall relaxed and open minded attitude results give an accurate description of my overall personality.
My Strengths
The strengths of my individual personality include having the ability to keep calm in stressful situations, balance out the conscientiousness personalities, increase the quality of a product, and have better accuracy in identifying issues. In every work environment stress can be a huge factor in productivity and morale, and can lead to major health issues over time. A relaxed and unworried worker can wade through the proverbial sea of stress and find a reliever. This attribute can be a huge benefit in a work environment when everyone else is becoming overwhelmed. We can also balance out high strung coworkers by reminding them what is truly important and what can lead to further issues. This...