To what extent does personality predict employee performance?IntroductionThe trait-spirit approach to organizational performance is the idea that employees possess personality characteristics stable that significantly influence their attitudes towards and social relationships. reactions to organizational contexts. People with specific traits tend to be moderately consistent in their attitudes and conduct over time and across conditions. Managers appear to inherit a strong belief in the authority of personality traits to predict workspace behavior. If managers thought that situations determined behavior, they would hire individuals almost at random and assemble the situation correctly. But the employee selection procedure in most companies attaches great importance to how candidates perform in interviews and examination through which a person's personality can be achieved and the distribution of tasks can be very simple by varying depending on personality type (Robbins, Odendaal, & Roodt, 2001) From a cognitive perspective, these behaviors can influence how individuals understand the characteristics of their job, as is the situation in which individuals with a self-evaluated optimistic basis understand the intrinsic characteristics of the job more completely, even controlling the real complexity of the job. At the affective level, these personalities could stimulate job satisfaction through their outcomes on mood or mood within the organization. Finally, employees who are emotionally stable, extroverted, and conscientious may be better off at work because they are more likely to achieve lasting results at work. Part of this achievement can occur through the presentation of work, such that conscientious employees perform better and are more satisfied with their work because of the inherent… middle of paper… 2nd Edition. United States: Psychology PressKrausert, A (2008). “Performance Management for Different Groups of Employees.” Germany: Physica-Verlag. 178.McQuerrey, L. (2014). "How personality affects the workplace". Available: http://everydaylife.globalpost.com/personality-affect-behavior-workplace-7367.html. Last accessed 19 February 2014.Mishra, M. (2009). “Organizational behavior”. 2nd ed. India: Vikas Publisher. 90-114. Murnoe, S. (2014). "How personality influences work behavior". Available: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/personality-affects-wor-behavior-45940-html. Last accessed February 18, 2014. Robbins, S., Odendaal, A., & Roodt, A. (2007). “Organizational Behavior: Global and Southern African Perspectives.” 7th edition. South Africa: Pearson Education.Schinder, B, & Smith, B. (2004). “Personality and organization”. United States: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.