Personality & Work Performance. Evidence Based Analysis

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: Awarded, Yogi Vemana University (School of Business Management), course: Ph.D, language: English, abstract: The studies relating to personality factor confined that personality aspect is decisive on certain issues of individual performance. But the present study results spotlighted its incidence on individual performance is not so visible due to mix of different permutations concerning employee perceptions and realities. Individual performance is a multi-dimensional factor. Studies on individual performance revealed that the performances are always incoherent and aligned with typical situational elements. The reasons may be ever changing business equations, challenging tasks, multi-tasks and unfamiliar job assignments etc. It has been influenced by many facets including personality factor and work place dynamics. But the extent of impact is varying due to differences in employee perceptions, nature of work, organizational context and many occupational co-integrated variables. Self-evaluation of task performances, contextual measurement of the job performances, harmonizing workplace negativity, lessening professional psychological tribulations, scheming proactive communication system, encouraging innovations at workplace, limiting the area of self-rejections and creating unleashed structure of job influencing variables assessment are the core practical implications of the study which may possibly lend a hand in lining the individual performances.