Essays on Conscientiousness

It is not a secret that our set of mind and character traits directly influence the state of our health. Jokela et al. study the connection between the Big Five personality traits that include extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness and coronary heart disease and heart stroke mortality (Jokela et al., 2014, p. 882). According to the authors, the higher risk of mortality from coronary heart disease is associated with lower conscientiousness, lower agreeableness, lower extraversion, higher neuroticism, and lower openness to experience; at the same time, the higher risk of stroke mortality is associated with lower ...

The concept of coworking was brought about by Engineer Brad Nuberg in early 2005. It can be defined as a membership-based workspace where a diverse group of freelancers, remote workers, and other professional individuals work together in a shared communal setting. A majority of these spaces consist of different people working remotely for a range of companies and projects. Coworking has become popular due to the fact that most people prefer to work in group settings as they tend to be less bored and more productive. When choosing the type of coworking space one wants to enlist in, one ...

Literature Review

Overview The research question is essential for any study; as it will enable the researcher to focus on a particular subject to do research. The research question for this study is the effect of direct communication between the CEO and the employees when it comes to Job satisfaction. The question allows the researcher to focus on the concept of job satisfaction, internal communication the roles of both the CEO and the employees, and the factors that influence communication enhancement. Internal communication is the frequency of interaction between the upper level of management and the lower level of management (Bloom, ...

Steve Jobs was a highly controversial but extremely successful leader of one of the largest and most successful companies in the world. Jobs dazzled the business world and the general public with his drive for excellence, but annoyed at even angered many of his executives and employees with his single-minded vision. Jobs was remarkable and visionary, and he helped to revolutionize personal computers and the digital industry as a whole. Thanks for this, Apple enjoyed massive sales any time a new iPhone, iPad or iPod hit the market. All of this convinced the world in general and business circles ...

The trait theory determines the type of personality an individual comprises with, particularly when exhibiting the roles in an organization. The Big Five-Personality Traits (BFT) includes “openness to experience” that signifies the intellectual and imaginative mind in personality exhibition. Second, an “emotional stability” signifies the relaxed and calm personality of an individual. Third, the trait of “conscientiousness” refers to the dependable and achievement driven personality of an individual. “Agreeableness” indicates that an individual is trustworthy and cooperative towards work and “extraversion” states that an individual is extremely interactive and assertive by nature (John & Srivastava, 1999). Based on the scores, ...

Introduction

The thesis statement for this annotated bibliography is “Team Members Are More Successful with A Transformational Leader Versus the Transactional Leader”. The sources that have been chosen will be useful and will allow an effective research process with information being added to the body of knowledge relative to the specified subject. To gather a clearer understanding of the thesis there must be an understanding of the transformational leader and the transactional leader. Leadership carries with the title the responsibility of understanding different methodologies and/or theories that can be used in order to ensure the success of the department, team, ...

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The Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) that I took allowed me to understand myself better from my own perspective and from the perspectives of the people who I constantly interact with. Below is an overview of what I have found out: As seen from the table above, I asked the help of my mother and my childhood best friend, who also happens to be my cousin, so that I would have a better understanding of my own personality. I believe that both of them provided helpful insights because they have known me for a very long time, and ...

Personality tests have been in existence since the 1920s. The validity of personality tests is questionable and a single individual may get multiple results from different personality tests. The subject of this paper is the result of a personality test taken using the International Personality Item Pool Representation known as NEO PI-R. This test focused on five generalized personality traits of individuals such as extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism. These character traits are also known as the big five and successful individuals have high scores on these five traits. This personality test included ‘sub-personalities’ that build ...

Parenting strategies need to change depending on the social, political, and economic circumstances so that children can one day live as adults according to the demands of contemporary circumstantial factors. However, parents face three significant parenting challenges in the modern world, and those challenges include changes in parenting strategies over time, the evolution of family structures, and conflicts with their children during adolescence. Although some of those challenges could be interpreted as consequences of changes in social attitudes, parents need to develop parenting abilities and self-confidence in their abilities to raise children. If those two criteria are met, contemporary ...

A career in sales and marketing requires a distinctive set of skills and responsibilities. Some of the needed skills are acquired through classroom studies while others are natural. To understand my strengths and weaknesses, a series of tests were carried out. These tests were meant to assess the extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness-to-stability. The other test was intended to assess the emotional intelligence. In this paper, I will evaluate the results and discuss methods that will be used to ensure that my career aspiration is achieved.

Careers Aspiration

I am a junior student, pursuing business marketing and entrepreneurial studies ...

One of the more controversial stereotypes that have stuck with most people is the role the order of one’s birth has on his or her personality (and life). Whether a person is a first born, middle child, baby or only child seems to have a lot of assumptions about how that individual behaves and responds to life. The questions remains, what difference does birth order make, and how true is it that birth order can even have an impact? Looking at the various studies regarding birth order, most of which have looked at or used the example of ...

The Big Five test is a model that allows people explore the most important aspects of any individual`s personality. In the basis of this test there is an idea that any personality is characterized by the individual differences in adaptation to the social environment, taking into account the biological properties of the individual, of course. According to the Big Five test`s model, there are five common and relatively independent features in the human personality. These are extraversion, emotional stability, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to new experience (intellect with imagination). This essay is a reflection paper, which was ...

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The Five Factor Theory of Personality

The Five Factor Theory of Personality is a framework that most psychologists use to identify and analyze personality attributes. Psychology experts and professionals began to recognize and accept the importance of this theory starting in 1980’s (McCrae and John, 1990). Based on this theory, personality traits have five basic dimensions: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. These five dimensions are popularly known as the Big Five Personality Traits.

For each dimension of the Big Five Personality traits, also known as the Five Factor Model, corresponding characteristics are associated.

Extraversion The first dimension is Extraversion, and this is associated with warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement seeking, and positive emotions (McCrae and John, 1990). Using a ...

Psychology theories

1 Identify the main ideas of major theories of intelligence.

Intelligence can be one of the most complex subjects of discussion and has been in existence for several years. It is mainly debated within psychology but there is no general definition to be used precisely on what intelligence constitute. Some scholars have proposed that intelligence is a general, single capacity, while other states that intelligence entails a wide range of aptitudes, talents, knowledge, and skills. Historically, the way people think of intelligence has changed over the years, whereby Spearman suggested that intelligence was common (g factor) and emphasized steadiness in people ...