Understanding differences in personality helps to know what people’s aptitudes, points of views, procedures and behaves are. As is well known within organizations are a common culture that as explained by Thusman (1996): even if each person represents a unique personality, the culture acts as glue among the entire structure that holds it together. Therefore personality plays an important role when choosing staff, psychological, skills and personality tests could allows to create a map of what person could fit easily with the values of each company, or the role that it can plays; or could be implemented as a tool by the time of conforming team work groups in order to structure one, that integrate employees playing different functions.
As in a society, pluralism or multiculturalism could be found in multinationals; it’s important to understand that the presence of different personalities could have a positive approach and be seen as an opportunity for businesses because discrepancies among people creates multiples points of views and perspectives that permit several solutions leading to create value. Working with people that have different personality or background also reinforce values as tolerance, and generate more open mind managers and employees willing to learn from others.
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