Personality

Nature approach to personality refers to innate qualities, in other words to those qualities that are intrinsically part of the human behavior, humans born already having these qualities; the nurture approach of personality consist in all that we gain from personal experience, from the beginning of our life we are always involved in experience new situations, which contribute to form our personality. There is still an important debate about which approach forms our personalities, for someone is inherit (nature), for others evolve due to environmental conditions (nurture). The nomothetic approach, which is really close to the nature one, represent a measurable perspective and identify main traits of the human personality such as a collection of characteristics, which are describable and measurable; nomothetic approach is an important source of information for managers involved in the selection and training of individuals. The idiographic approach, really close to nurture one, identify the main traits of the human personality such as a consequence of environment experience, and consider the development of the personality a process of changing; it judge that people characteristics can not be compared because are not measurable. I feel my personality as an innate factor, I think main traits can be compared and characteristics measurable.

Here some articles about the debate:

- www.psychology.iastate.edu/~dgentile/Psy101_notes/nature%20or%20nurture.htm

- folk.uio.no/roffe/faq/node11.html

Taking the two tests, Framicon and What I am Like, results were: on the hand, on Framicon, I resulted as a sensitive and sociable person, who really cares about relations with other individuals and consider really relevant the emotional aspect of an human being; on the other hand, on What I am Like, was underlined my lower level of conscientiousness, meaning of a lack of constance and perseverance in achieving results, but also was marked the high level of neuroticism, extroversion, and agreeableness, these result mean that I care, as said in Framicon, about other people feelings, and that I, sometimes, feel anxious or tense.

I agree completely with the results of this tests, they showed my personalities in the way I consider it, underlining the importance I give to feelings and emotion, and illustrating how sometimes I can become tense or anxious and how I have some difficulties to gain expected results.

I do not consider these tests useful for a selection process, this because user answer in order to them in order to reach certain results, that means that these tests can be invalidate easily, prejudging the real results and objectives of the questionnaires. They also cover just a inconsiderable part of the human personality, and can not provide complete informations.

Personality play a considerable role in the management system, managers can influence the environment with their characteristic and qualities, and, especially through personality, managers can influence other individuals and member of the company. Personality is still a complex aspect that has not been yet deeply analyzed, and differing by individual to individual, is always a source of changing;

References:

---Mullins, L. (2007) Management and Organisational Behaviour. 8^th ed. Pearson Education Limited: Harlow