The Big Five Personality Factors describe an individual’s extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience:
- Extroversion. The degree to which a person is outgoing, sociable, assertive, and comfortable with interpersonal relationships.
- Agreeableness. The degree to which a person is able to get along with others by being good-natured, likable, cooperative, forgiving, understanding, and trusting.
- Conscientiousness. The degree to which a person is focused on a few goals, thus behaving in ways that are responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented.
- Emotional stability. The degree to which a person is calm, enthusiastic, and self-confident, rather than tense, depressed, moody, or insecure.
- Openness to experience. The degree to which a person has a broad range of interests and is imaginative, creative, artistically sensitive, and willing to consider new ideas.
Reference: The New Era of Management.