Human beings lie in the continuum of relatively healthy and unhealthy in their mental and psychological disposition.
Sigmund Freud
Organizations should recruit and hire relatively healthy individuals whose needs, desires or wants for achievement, growth, and fulfillment and to find meanings in life are relatively high. They are potentially good performers who can take their organization to greater height of success. KYKO classify this group under the self-actualizing dimension. Those who are highly self-actualized are known as the normal personality while those who are lowly self-actualized are known as the neurotic personality.
Below is a description of the patterns of behavior of the self-actualization dimension
Normal Personality Type
High Self-Actualizing individuals are relatively healthy mentally and psychologically. They have a high need for achievement, growth, and fulfillment and to find meanings in life. Being achievement oriented, they are hardworking, responsible, committed and chase after goals and results. They believe that success can only be achieved through hard work. They have boundless energy and will not mind spending long hard hours to get the job done.
High Self-Actualizing individuals seek fulfillment and get satisfaction out of doing a good job. They enjoy and strive to perfect the art of what they are doing. They have high drive, and are self-motivated, energetic and enthusiastic about their work. Their motivation is single minded self-satisfaction and sees their responsibility and commitment as a direct relationship to the result they will achieve.
High Self-Actualizing individuals have high growth needs. They are trainable and accountable for their mistakes and see them as an opportunity for learning and growing. They strive consistently by continually updating their knowledge and skills to become more competent and effective in becoming a professional expert and see learning and growing as a continuous life long process.
High Self-Actualizing individuals seek to reach the peak of human development, become fully functioned and to find meanings in life. They have high integrity and are reliable to get things done. They understand that success requires the attributes of fairness, integrity, honesty, and ethics and last but not least trustworthiness.
Normal-Neurotic Personality Type
Average Self-Actualizing individuals moderate need for achievement, progress, self improvement and to find meanings in life. They are not very conscientious and committed to achieve their life goals. They work accordingly to their moods and sentiments. They perform inconsistently in carrying out their duties and responsibilities. They perform well when they are happy. In times when they feel bad they are likely to work half-heartedly at their own pace. They are not passionate in acquiring skills and knowledge. They seem indifferent in developing and improving themselves to progress in their career. They leave their success to fate. They have a moderate respect for values and ethics. They live by their subjective moral codes of conduct. They are fair in their thinking and logical skills. It explains their lukewarm approach to their responsibilities and commitment. In face of pressure, they are likely to lose their senses and become stress and tense.
Neurotic Personality Type
Low Self-Actualizing individuals have low need for achievement, progress, self-improvement and to find meanings in life. They are not sure of what to do with their life and tend to take things as they come. They work to keep themselves alive. They are not bothered about working, learning, growing and to find meanings in life. They are not committed and do not put in enough effort to what they are doing. Their life is not going the way they have expected. They are currently stressful and in pains and despair. They are quite frustrated with life and tend to drift along aimlessly.