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Comparing the Usefulness of Conventional and Recent Personality Assessment Tools

Playing the Right Music with the Wrong Instrument?

Taran Patel is Professor, Strategy and Management Department, Groupe ESC Rennes, 2, Rue Robert D'Arbrissel, Rennes 35065. France.

This conceptual article explores different personality assessment tools like the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) tool and the Five-Factor Model and compares them with a relatively new instrument called PerformanSe. We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each of these instruments commonly used for personality assessment. If understanding and predicting behaviours of people is important to academic and practitioners alike, it is equally important that they understand the strengths and weaknesses of the different personality assessment tools available to them. Understanding the limitations of the tools available curbs their perfectionist impulse and encourages them to treat these tools with a critical eye. This understanding will not only prevent practitioners from taking wrong decisions in recruiting or promoting employees, but will also save them from legal disputes.

Global Business Review, Vol. 7, No. 2, 195-218 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/097215090600700202


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