An empirical study on measuring the impact of personality type on employee capabilities


N. Sha’bani, S. Salajeqe, M. Fallah, S.E.Najafi and N. Shahsavari PourDepartment of Management, rafsanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran


Personality is a stable set of characteristics and tendencies, which specifies similarities, and differences of people' psychological behavior. Personality is normally a permanent behavior through time and may not be comprehended easily or recognized as immediate or direct situations due to some environmental and social stresses. In this paper, we study the relationship between employees' personality and ability types. The paper identifies that there are some relationships between employees' personality type and their ability. There is also a relationship between introvert, extrovert, sensitive, emotive, thoughtful, considerate and judging personality type and employees' ability.


DOI: j.msl.2010.03.003

Keywords: Personality type ,Employee ability ,Empowerment ,Big fives ,

How to cite this paper:

Sha’bani, N., Salajeqe, S., Fallah, M., S.E.Najafi, S & Iran, N. (2011). An empirical study on measuring the impact of personality type on employee capabilities.Management Science Letters, 1(2), 181-186.


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