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8 Benefits of Personality Assessment Work Groups and Team Dynamics [Continued…] It is acknowledged that behaviour in a team will be dependent on a number of factors, among which one is Personality. Therefore, it can be said that a Personality Assessment can help in determining a particular employee’s behaviour when placed to work in a group or team. The Human Resource Manager of Air Mauritius points out that it is important to determine whether a potential employee can adopt a team role while assessing the Personality of that particular employee at recruitment stage.
Furthermore, it is also important to provide the right mix of team roles [Plant, Resource Investigator, Coordinator, Shaper, Monitor Evaluator, Team Worker, Implementer, Completer, and Specialist]. To provide a clear illustration of what is meant by a wrong team composition, Mr. J.B. Sadien states the following:
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The Wrong Person in the Wrong Place = Regression
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The Wrong Person in the Right Place = Frustration
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The Right Person in the Wrong Place = Confusion
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The Right Person in the Right Place
= Progression
Therefore, Personality Assessment plays a crucial role in providing a right mix of team roles. This is so because Personality Tests provide Organisational Psychologists with the characteristics of employees so that these can be matched with the characteristics required to perform a particular team role.
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