Individual Differences: Pesonality and Ability

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES: PESONALITY AND ABILITY

Ya-Hsin Chen

Introduction

Bill Gates (2003) has said: If you take the most important twenty persons away, Microsoft will turn into a company without any importance and will drag the company into the gutter. In the Hi-Tech industry, the ability to development is a source of creating the competitive advantages. The research indicates individuals are core resources of company. If I am an investor, I will judge company's good and bad important reference standard from their research and develop personnel's quality and quantity. Outstanding research and development talents mean the company has better prospective and creativity. It indicates that employee is the property of company and their qualities results whether a company is successful. Basically, for a company, how to distinguish out employees’ key quality early and to manage effectively is vital for an enterprise to strengthen its organization. In addition, when discussing the individual differences and the way they affect the performances and behaviors of employees, we are also concerned not about their personalities but also about their abilities. Organizations should strive to ensure the people they hire are strong enough to use their abilities on the job and effectively utilize their abilities effectively. In organizations, human resources apartment plays a role to select individuals who have the abilities needed to suit different kinds of job and task, and trains employees to enhance their abilities levels.

Theory Analyze

Personality

According to Holland (1985) personality-job fit theory, he considered people whose personality traits and work with the characteristics of consistency that were relevant to job performance. The personality traits represent individual consistent behaviors, in other words, different personalities result different behaviors and performances.

Holland’ s book " Making Vocational Choice " in 1985, it divides the personality traits...