Psychological Side

Money is not always the main cause of job satisfaction. When employees spend a majority of their waking hours in the workplace, they need more than a paycheck to satisfy them. Using their talents, engaging them in challenging projects, offering incentives, and creating a friendly and respectful environment with low stress are among the reasons your staff will be glad to show up each day to contribute to the company's ultimate success. Culture When employees like their co-workers and find commonalities among their peers and supervisors, they tend to be more satisfied at work, according to Richard Harmer at the Australian Catholic University School of Psychology. When employees connect with co-workers and develop personal relationships they usually are happier at work. Overall job satisfaction also correlates with how well employees get along with their direct supervisors. Hiring managers and small business owners should look for employees with similar backgrounds and taste...

How many personality traits are there? How do we even know? In every language, there are many words describing a person’s personality. In fact, in the English language, more than 15,000 words describing personality have been identified. When researchers analyzed the terms describing personality characteristics, they realized that there were many words that were pointing to each dimension of personality. When these words were grouped, five dimensions seemed to emerge that explain a lot of the variation in our personalities.  Keep in mind that these five are not necessarily the only traits out there. There are other, specific traits that represent dimensions not captured by the Big Five. Still, understanding the main five traits gives us a good start for describing personality . A summary of the Big Five traits is presented in  Figure 3.4 .           Figure: 3.4:  Big Five Personality Traits Openness  is the degree to which a pers...