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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Juhász, Márta

Titel

Influence of personality on Teamwork behaviour and communication

Ist Teil von

• Periodica polytechnica. Social and management sciences, 2010, Vol.18 (2), p.61

Ort / Verlag

Budapest: Periodica Polytechnica, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Job characteristics of the operator teams of the Nuclear Power Plant are complex and highly controlled in which there are considerable demands and pressures to behaviour conformity and a person is restricted in the range of own behaviour. Thus, individual differences in personality characteristicsare more likely to influence the specific behaviour a person adopts. Thistype of environment determines and regulates the communication flow amongteam members that consist of quantity and quality information exchanges. Allthese circumstances lead our focus on analysing the relationship between theemployees´ communication and observable behaviour and their personalitytraits.We video registered 17 operator teams (N=90) in a Simulator Centre of aHungarian Nuclear Power Plant and analysed the correlation between the teaminput (operator personnel´s personality traits) and team process(communication hidden patterns, traceable teamwork-oriented social skillsand task-oriented professional skills), and ultimately team output (teamperformance evaluated by instructors).This study reveals some relationships between personality traits and team-oriented communication utterances. Extroversion and Openness toexperience personality factors show positive correlation with Politenessand Relation communication indicators, but contrary to our expectation theAgreeableness personality factor negatively relates with theseindicators. The Team-performance has several relationships with personalitytraits. First of all Professional knowledge and Coordination behaviourmarkers show correlations with Neuroticism and Conscientiousnesspersonality factors. Team-performance as an output of the team process isdirectly influenced by the Conscientiousness and the Extraversionpersonality factors.