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Explain in 250 words how personality preferences might effect organizations? Describe a time when you feel your personality preference either helped or hindered an organization's effectiveness that you were a part of.

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This solution provides a review into industrial organizational psychology in order to determine the proper identification by personality preferences. The assessment of personality is shown to be an important part of determining leadership style, as well as the hiring stage. The solution provides an example of when personality preference helped or hindered an organization's effectiveness.

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Personality preferences effect organizations on the basis of leadership style or approach for reaching the targeted outcome. The personality preferences can reflect a key attribute in decision-making, along with leadership styles for influencing work teams of employees. Try and think of human resources methods in the hiring phase of selection for determining if the individual is a good candidate for the job and company's organizational culture. Therefore, the company hiring ...

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