Chiou Paul Z, Mulder Lotte, Jia Yuane
Department of Clinical Laboratory and Medical Imaging, Newark, NJ, USA.
Department of Organizational Development and Leadership, ASCP, Chicago, IL USA.
Am J Clin Pathol. 2021 Sep 8;156(4):625-633. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaa257.
The specific aims of the study are to analyze relationships between the personality traits of laboratory professionals and choice of profession and preferred work settings.
Data from practicing laboratory professionals were collected via a web-based survey tool to gather information about personality types, choice of profession, and work setting preferences among medical laboratory professionals.
Results of the survey showed that INFJ (Introversion, Intuition, Feeling, Judging) is the most common medical laboratory personality type across the various laboratory work settings and that there are no significant differences between the practitioners' personality type and the choice of profession within pathology. The study revealed laboratorians from higher-volume laboratories were 1.2 times more likely to prefer Judging than lower-volume laboratories, and younger medical laboratory practitioners were 2.3 times more likely to gravitate toward Perceiving than their older counterparts.
The results of this study shed light on how employers can build on the personality preferences of the laboratory workforce to improve personal job satisfaction and laboratory productivity, quality, and work culture. The research implications are useful for laboratory recruitment and retention.
本研究的具体目标是分析实验室专业人员的人格特质与职业选择及偏好的工作环境之间的关系。
通过基于网络的调查工具收集在职实验室专业人员的数据，以获取有关医学实验室专业人员的人格类型、职业选择和工作环境偏好的信息。
调查结果显示，INFJ（内向、直觉、情感、判断）是各类实验室工作环境中最常见的医学实验室人格类型，且从业者的人格类型与病理学领域内的职业选择之间没有显著差异。该研究表明，来自高工作量实验室的检验人员比低工作量实验室的检验人员更倾向于判断型人格的可能性高1.2倍，而年轻的医学实验室从业者比年长的同行更倾向于感知型人格的可能性高2.3倍。
本研究结果揭示了雇主如何基于实验室工作人员的人格偏好来提高个人工作满意度以及实验室的生产力、质量和工作文化。该研究结果对实验室人员的招聘和留用具有重要意义。
