Are there any legal, ethical, or privacy issues In utilizing Personality Assessment?
Not really, but there can be some problems with how it is used. There are no issues when it is used to help facilitate effective communications, because it simply involves an interpretation of information being provided by the other person. Written test can be a different matter. One of the dangers of a written test is that it tends to create a snapshot of the person’s personality. This is normally not a problem, but I have seen very rare cases where written tests were administered to people who were experiencing a family crisis, and the results indicated they were having difficulty with stress, which was assumed to be coming from their work responsibilities. The individuals were either demoted or released from employment, because of the inappropriate use of the testing results. I do not recommend this kind of testing or follow-up. How can Personality Assessment be used to lower turbulence in a team? We tend to interact with other people in our own style because that is what is natural
