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Personality Traits and Personality Tests Subscribe

One area of controversy is how well you can accurately assess the personalities of employees or potential employees. One popular way is through various questionnaires.

For your first post, give the following information:

How would you rate yourself on each of the Big Five personality traits based on only the description of the trait? Would your friends agree with your self-ratings?

After your own self-ratings, do a search in Google or other search engines on "big five personality test" and find an online personality test that will tell you how you rate on the Big Five dimensions. Take the test and compare your results with your initial self-ratings. How do you feel about the personality test you took? Was it accurate or not very helpful? Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.

Compare your results with those of your classmates, and try to find a classmate with opposite traits as you as well as one with very similar traits.

Module 2 Discussions

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Emotional Intelligence and EQ Tests Subscribe

The discussion for this module will include two issues for you to address:

How would you rate yourself on each of the four dimensions of emotional intelligence? Would your friends agree with your self-ratings?

After your own self-ratings, do a search in Google or other search engines on “"emotional intelligence test" and find an online EQ test that will give you an EQ score. Take the test, and compare your results with your initial self-ratings. How do you feel about the EQ test you took? Was it accurate, or not very helpful? Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.

This information should be in your first post. Compare your results with those of your classmates, and try to find a classmate with opposite traits as you as well as one with very similar traits.

Module 3 Discussions

Hierarchy of Needs Subscribe

Based on what you learned about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which of the needs in the hierarchy is most important for you at this time for your career?

Once you answered question above, do a search on “hierarchy of needs test” and find an online survey that measures your hierarchy of needs. Report what you found. Were the results surprising or what you initially suspected? Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.

Compare and contrast your results with those of your classmates.

Module 4 Discussions

Groups and Teams Subscribe

Okay, one more questionnaire. But first explain whether or not you think you are a team player or more someone who works better alone. After your own self-rating, go online and do a search for “team player quiz.” Report your results and compare with your initial self-ratings. Also, provide the link to the test you found in case any of your classmates want to use it.

Finally, take a look at the Modules 1-3 discussions and the responses from your classmates and assess whether this class has a diverse variety of different personalities and other characteristics, or if you think your classmates generally have similar characteristics. If you and your classmates were all to work at a company for the same manager, do you think this manager would have any easy or hard time managing this group?

Module 5 Discussions

Rate your Organizational Culture Subscribe

For your Module 5 SLP, you rated your organization along the following dimensions: detail-oriented, team-oriented, innovative, aggressive, outcome-oriented, and people-oriented. Give a brief overview of how you rated your organization on these dimensions.

Then do a search in Google or another search engine on “Quiz: What Is Your Corporate Culture” or similar search terms to see if you can find an organizational culture quiz. Take the quiz and report your result. How does it compare to your ratings from your SLP? Does it better describe your organization than the ratings of the five dimensions you used for your SLP? Are the cultural dimensions you took from the quiz more useful than the standard textbook dimensions that you read about in the background readings?

Module 6

Given the readings and assignments in the course, identify and briefly discuss two important concepts that you feel are most applicable to your professional discipline.

Please reference and cite scholarly sources in your comments.

[This Discussion is designed for you to respond to the above question/topic during the first week of the module. During the second week of the module please read through responses by peers and post a second response addressing one or more of the shared ideas. Please bring in new ideas/comments and research that haven't been mentioned yet.]