Question

How understanding of personality helps in enhancing organization's effectiveness?

Answer 1

Understanding of personality types in an organization helps one in the following areas, to assign the best suitable employee for the role

- Leadership
- Communication
- Influencing
- Collaboration
- Business Negotiation
- Management of Stress

It can help us in understanding others, their potentials and drawbacks, to coach them and optimize the organizational productivity.

Answer 2

Effectiveness of an organisation depends on the people who head it and those who work in the different departments or sections of the organisation.

The Human Resources department of an organisation plays a very important role in ensuring that the right kind of people are recruited to work in the different departments. Key managers of the organisation should be involved in the recruitment process and the right method of evaluating a candidate adopted.

A level of psychological evaluation at time of recruitment, helps to understand the personality of candidates. Existing staff should be kept motivated for ensuring optimum output from them. Recruiting and allocating people with the right personalities to do a specific job is paramount to the success of any organisation.