Organizational Culture: Personalities and Temperaments
1. Instructions
Principles of Management - Unit I Essay (Individual Personalities and Temperaments)
Visit the CSU Online Library and locate a minimum of two recent articles on individual personalities and temperaments.
Look for articles that discuss how personalities and temperaments affect management styles and/or organizational culture. Discuss each article and summarize the author’s key points.
The body of your paper should be a minimum of one page in length, not including the title and reference pages. Cite and reference the sources appropriately.
2. Reference and Sources
Articles 1: Manage-Lead-Administer
Authors: Kern, Roy C.
Source: Training & Development Journal. Nov 66, Vol. 20 Issue 10, p30. 9p.
Document Type: Article
Articles 2: personalities into teams.
Authors: Wilde, Doug
Source: Mechanical Engineering. Feb 2010, Vol. 132 Issue 2, p22-25. 4p.
Document Type: Article
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE: PERSONALITIES AND TEMPERAMENTS
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Apart from the different types of skills and expertise that people bring into the working environment, they also introduce a wide range of personalities that may affect the workplace in one way or another. Different people also harbor different problem-solving approaches, and the proper application of varying characteristics can be as productive as the combined technical knowledge at the team’s disposal. According to Doug Wilde, teams perform better when they are made up of people with a diverse range of personalities even though it may take a considerable amount of time before such a diverse team can establish a smooth communication and meaningful cooperation (Wilde 2010). Personalities in a team range from intuition and thinking to...