Personality Inventories are tools used to assess individual differences as an aid to more effective personnel selection and team building

1. Personality Inventories
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Personality Inventories are tools used to assess individual differences
as an aid to more effective personnel selection and team building. As
such, they are directly relevant to Human Resource Management and
a key indicator of individual differences. When projects and teams
bring together diverse groups of people who may not know much
about each other or have worked together in the past, conflicts and
dysfunctions are common. Understanding the factors that “make
people tick” can be very helpful in promoting effective team
dynamics.
Myers-Briggs (the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory or MBTI) is
probably the best known and most widely used of these techniques.
However, two other approaches are based on solid psychological
theory and research and have been extensively validated for use in the
workplace. DISC is based on a four factor theory of personality that is
similar to but not identical with MBTI. The Big Five is a more recent
construct that is widely taught in HR and OB courses although I am
not sure that it is widely used in industry.
You can access a free self-assessment at the links below. You should
take the test and use it to identify the aspects of your personality and
work behaviors that seem most distinctive. You will also be able to
incorporate the results into your personal mission statement.
“BIG FIVE” PERSONALITY INVENTORY
SELF EVALUATION USING THE BIG FIVE TOOL FOR
ASSESSMENT OF INDIVIDUL DIFFERENCES
Link to the test: http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-
bigfivequiz1.htm
DISC PERSONALITY INVENTORY

2. Link to the test: http://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/
MYERS BRIGGS TALENT INVENTORY
(MBTI)http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html
Once you have taken these tests, you can reflect on what they say
about your own personality type. See if you think that the
interpretation they provide is accurate and if it might be helpful to you
in evaluating how you fit into a work group and manage your own
work. Put your ideas together in a summary essay of about two pages.
Feel free to draw some conclusions as to how helpful these
assessments might be in the process of HR selection.