Plan for Positive Influence

Plan for Positive Influence

Christina Powell

LDR/531

November 15, 2010

Catherine Meyer

Plan for Positive Influence

Through various behavioral assessments employers can determine best practices to improve employee motivation, satisfaction, and performance. Measurement tools can include assessments of employee personality traits and characteristics, work behaviors and attitudes, and job involvement and satisfaction. By using the information gathered from these assessments, employers can develop comprehensive plans to improve relational processes to bring together different individuals to work together in productive ways. For example, employees who have differing values, personalities, and emotional intelligence can learn new behavioral patterns to successfully collaborate in the workplace.

Team members completed several example assessments to determine behavioral factors such as predominant personality style, emotional intelligence, and attitudes regarding job satisfaction, involvement, and workplace diversity. Employers can use personality assessments to determine how employees will work in some areas (Robbins & Judge, 2007). For example, personality styles of the team were dominant and interactive; indicating that team members would be complimentary when dealing with clients. According to data outlined in the DISC Platinum Rule Behavioral Style Assessment, individuals with interactive personality styles possess skills that are influential with developing relationships to accomplish goals and are more relationship-oriented then task-oriented (Alessandra, 2006). Conversely, dominant personality styles are task-oriented, focused on problem-solving, and have expressed goals. The combination of the two personality types can work together to build relationships (interactive influence), then stay focused to accomplish successful outcomes (dominant influence).

Although employers can use personality style as a predictive indicator in some...