By Statistics Solutions Team
Employee personality refers to an employee’s emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral traits. An employee’s personality is important as it affects the work culture, and drives potential for burnout, performance, managerial attributes, turnover and organizational commitment. To the extent that personality is stable, management can measure an employee’s traits and help make informed decisions about hiring, and the possible implications for employees’ productivity and loyalty.
There are several measures of personality…but what do companies do with this information and what other information can be garnered? Predictive analytics can do more than describe employee personality traits—rather, based on these traits it can predict other factors critical to your organization’s business success such as performance and organizational commitment.
There are practical implications for companies to study and analyze personality; the employee personality studies can reveal important outcomes of their traits.
