Question

criticisms of big 5 personality model

Answer 1

In big 5 personality describe five major dimensions of personlality which is also known as traits . These are openness to experience, conscientiousness( efficient/organized), extraversion, agreebleness, ( friendly , compassion).Big five personlality theory are used to sceren candidates for team building, besides job analysis , training program etc. It has greatly improved and having least chance of error.But many psychologist critically review this theory gives controlled responce and unable to draw out genuine responce from candidates. Because candidates sometimes take helps internet to find out the positive response of multiple choice questions and easily give favarouble responce on the basis of requirements criteria. So this test is not free from partiality and having controlled responce.

In various selection process, it is assumed that candidates character will be as natural as it is natural world. But personlality is fantastic abstract entity which always dynamic , it can be controlled, improve, refine, .so critics stated that big five personality theory fail to measure the all aspects of personlality.its give inconsistent result because of unstable personlality of candidates which doesn't suitable for job.some psychologist claim that this is neither based on theory nor empirical .instead , it was the result of challenge that allport threws to his contempories. The original builder will think all natural language can explain personlality .but language it's self is barrier in certain situations while needs translation.so it's a lexical hypothesis.in another way big five personlality also enhanced self respect by understanding own strength and weakness and affect profile of personlality.it is also viewed that personality does not much effect on empolye performance rather than healthy work environment and reward can also change their behaiour for better performance.