Personality In Professional Life

Many exhibit attributes traits that seem to define them. Some many like the color green other red or perhaps green. Some may like to eat okra while others find it slimy and hard to take. There might be people who like to sing and dance and others who prefer to read and plan. These attributes can be all a part of one’s personality. Someone’s personality might be the biggest contributor to the quality of life. Personality may have more of an impact on the way some live than anything. What impact does it truly have? Many might agree that personality might have effects on their professional life. How does personality relate success and progression on the job? Someone’s personality type has negative aspects in their relationships and can someone

One might be told that their personality isn’t good and needs to change in order to fit a certain group, relationship or even a job. An individual might even agree with the criticism a venture out to change their personality only to revert back to who they truly are. Is it even possible to change a personality to “Fit in” or to be more excepted in society or relationships? What if someone’s personality contributes to addictive and/or abusive behavior? There must be a difference in changing one’s self to fit in and attempting to overcome aspects of someone’s personality that may affect their quality of life. Perhaps this might be where there are rehabilitations programs and reformation standards in place to not necessarily change a personality but to redirect behavior that causing a decline in one’s life. Even after rehabilitation some might lapse into the normal behavior that might be deemed as damaging to themselves in some ways or another. Could the revisits of destructive behavior be due to a personality disorders? Personality disorders can for sure be a contributing factor in the negative behavior and experience negative life events than someone without a personality disorder (Timothy, Walsh, Shae, Yen, Ansell, Grilo, & Gunderson, 2017). The lapse might be proof that change is not always something people are able to do or adapt to. Once someone enters treatment for addictive or abusive behavior, they must contend with routine change. A part of the treatment is changing behavior and requiring individuals to create new strategies’ on how to not allow their personality to produce harmful behavior. Most alcoholics will never say they are cured of alcoholism due to the fact they are aware of their own behavior and have to focus on not going back to the one object that was harmful in the past. Maybe treatment is not an effort to change a personality but in and of itself to find more productive