Orgaanizational Behavio

Strong personality is indeed helpful especially in discipline . But this was not the case with Fiorina . Though she definitely have a strong personality , but it was not too strong as there seemed be no such thing . Her problem was that she was overwhelmed by her qualities and by her personality that made her perhaps a conceited CEO

Do you think gender had anything to do with Fiorina 's firing

No , I don 't think so ! The fact that she was hired for that position ruled out gender discrepancy . Instead , her enormous good qualities

and her strong personality drove her to become egoistic and overconfident Her actuations were apparently influenced by this attitude that put her at odd with HP employees , even with some HP board members , and ultimately , to the son of the HP co-founder . Thus there were obviously valid reasons why Fiorina was fired as CEO of HP that has nothing to do with her gender . The most obvious was that she failed to deliver the performance expected of her because of her laps in judgment

Does this suggest personality testing has little value

The 900-question personality test in two hours by no means is easy . It is certainly important because it reveals who the person is , how smart how intelligent , how capable , and how fit is he or she for the position It is also helpful in screening the candidate especially those that are potentially problematic . In this particular case , Fiorina was acknowledged as one of the best known CEOs which mean that her failure at HP has nothing to do with the result of the personality tests . The tests were simply an instrument to thoroughly identify a person , but it is not the sole instrument for decision making . Thus , I believed that what had happened with her...