Organizations engage in several activities that may affect individuals' career development, including employee staffing, training, formal mentoring programs, and career counseling. Assessing employees on the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality may be one way to improve each of these activities so that both employees and the organization benefits. The FFM consists of emotional stability, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Possible future directions for research and practice using the FFM for each of the mentioned activities is discussed. Several key issues include assessing motivation levels, identifying areas for training and development, and enhancing employee fit with work demands and within work relationships.
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