The Measurement of Personality in Employee Surveys - Which Personality Inventory fits best?

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1,0, LMU Munich (Institut fur Human Capital Management), course: Betriebliche Personalforschung (Seminar), language: English, abstract: Investigators from different areas of research focus on personality and its impact on different aspects of life. Especially in work related contexts, literature shows increasing research interest regarding personality and how it affects issues in human resource management such as leadership, job performance, and organizational citizenship behavior. Hereby, the five-factor model of personality achieved popularity in a meanwhile. In this seminar paper, different personality inventories are analysed regarding their usability in the context of employee surveys. A recommandation based on the analyses is given.