Personality Differences and Impact on Workplace Culture
Every corporate organization and workplace has a distinct nature and essence of its own. Many a times employees are asked what is it that makes them wanted to stay employed with a particular organization. In many scenarios, they have stated that the organization and workplace culture suits their personality and vice versa. The relationship between employees’ personalities and workplace culture is deep and amongst the most keenly researched subjects. This particular essay aims to delve into the different personality types and how each one contributes or extracts from workplace culture. Furthermore, this assay with make an attempt to do a compare-and-contrast between the personality types, what are the implications that personality differences pose to workplace attitudes and cultures as a whole.
Cultural and personality differences are known to exist in every workplace, and this particular fact has been well-researched and documented in literature too. Personality, for one, plays a fundamental role in employees’ career strategy as well as also influences the level of employability which they possess. An individual may be an existing employee or a jobseeker or an entrepreneur for that matter, personality plays a pivotal part in determining how far an individual will be able to exist in a business relationship paradigm on the whole. This process, scholars suggest, begins by asking and exploring the question “Who am I?” Employees have different personalities, and in order to be able to know and gauge others from an outwardly perspective, an individual needs to begin by decipher themselves from within. In order to understand what this phenomenon is and what all it entails, it is important to have adequate knowledge about personality and one’s own individuality. Study of personalities is deemed to assist very significantly in this regard.
The term ‘personality’ does not have a fixed or universal definition, Hippocrates however did suggest that it was possible to define and discern personalities from four temperamental facets – choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic (Strelau, 1998). Furthermore Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind is also believed explicate about personality; countless endeavors have been executed at trying to comprehend the abstract phenomenon which we all know as ‘personality.’
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