| A personality profile is a knowledge management tool that is used to evaluate an employee's personal attributes, values and life skills and maximize his or her job performance and contribution to the company. Questions in a personality profile test are designed to seek out information about an employee's temperament, decision-making methods, communication style and general attitude towards work and recreation. The information is used to match the right employee to the right project or task, especially when group work is involved. There are two accepted categories of personality profile tests, trait and type. Trait personality profile tests, such as Orpheus, 16 PF and OPQ, operate on the assumption that personality is made up of many characteristics. The goal of this type of test is to document the employee's characteristics and match the characteristics to appropriate roles within the company. This type of personality profile is often used to identify who might make a good manager. Type personality profile tests, such as Myers-Briggs, Insights Discovery and the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, propose that personalities fall into distinct categories. The goal of this type of test is to identify which category or categories an employee aligns with. This type of personality profile is often used to teach team members about the value that each personality type brings to the table. Advocates of personality profiling claim that it's a valuable reality check when viewed in the context of an employee's job performance. Critics argue that the advent of sophisticated knowledge management technology can put too much emphasis on the process involved in gathering and mining employee data, instead of using face-to-face communication and continuous assessment to judge an employee's strengths and weaknesses.
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