The Big Five in Action: An Interactive Approach to Exploring Personality at Work

In this interactive exercise, students apply the Big Five personality framework to a workplace scenario, fostering their understanding of how personality influences work outcomes. Participants analyze an example personality profile to identify an employee’s likely strengths and challenges, later discovering the profile belongs to the instructor. This twist facilitates a discussion about navigating personality at work and sets the stage for a reflection assignment, where students take a personality test and evaluate their results. This exercise can be adapted across various teaching contexts, levels, and modalities, making it a versatile tool for exploring the role of personality in organizational behavior.