What Do Managers Need to Know About Personality?
11-3 Describe different personality theories.
Many colleges use roommate compatibility tests to assign rooms in on-campus housing.22 If you’ve ever shared a living space with someone else (family or nonfamily), you know how important it can be for roommates to be compatible and to get along with each other. This compatibility is affected and influenced by our own and by other people’s personalities.
Some of us are quiet and passive; others are loud and aggressive. When we describe people using terms such as quiet, passive, loud, aggressive, ambitious, extroverted, loyal, tense, introverted, or sociable, we’re describing their personalities. An individual’s personality is a unique combination ...
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