Facebook CEO Management Evaluation

• Facebook CEO Management Evaluation
• How would you evaluate Zuckerberg in terms of the Big Five personality dimensions?
• How would you evaluate Zuckerberg in terms of core self-evaluations and emotional intelligence?
• How will Facebook’s mission, values, and culture affect the three components of employees’ attitudes and workplace behavior?
• What are your thoughts about Facebook’s diversity statistics?
• Are you concerned that 44% of Facebook’s employees are experiencing high stress?

How would you evaluate Zuckerberg in terms of the Big Five personality dimensions?

Overall, Zuckerberg would be a high scorer in most, if not all, five dimension traits. Going from characteristic to characteristic, let’s start with Zuckerberg’s extroversion; quiet and reserved. Zuckerberg doesn't like to show his hand when it comes to his business or his personality for that matter. Next, we deal with his neuroticism; which is calm, collected, and comfortable. So far, Zuckerberg is a low scorer. Consequently is Zuckerberg’s conscientiousness, which he scores high on due to his hard-working nature, organization, and punctuality. Then, is his agreeableness; which is a low score due to his critical nature and ruthless business tactics. Lastly, is the openness to experience. One on one, Zuckerberg is considered “condescending”. When he is in private conversation, he is as original as it gets. Without those qualities, Facebook would not be as dominant as it is today.

How would you evaluate Zuckerberg in terms of core self-evaluations and emotional intelligence?

His self-evaluation is strong. Breaking it down, Zuckerberg believed he could control his own destiny. That is an internal locus of control. He believed in his power of accomplishing a mission to bring people together, also known as self-efficacy. He had high hopes about himself and his venture, which showed true to his high self-esteem. Lastly, he experiences neuroticism by meeting his deadlines.

In regards to emotional intelligence, Zuckerberg has one of the best social awarenesses. For example, he has had a lot of nerve to drop out of America’s most renowned University and pursue his own passion, Facebook. Self-management is also his strong suit because of his adaptability in particular. For instance, Facebook started out as a social media outlet for people to get to know each other better and to connect with friends. Now, it is the main platform for human intelligence. He is achievement-oriented by setting the correct goals for his venture. He doesn't always offer a positive outlook, moreover a realistic one. Social awareness is lesser of the two mainly because he comes off as arrogant and superior to a lot of people. He does possess organizational awareness due to his everlasting role with his company. Lastly, he is a stellar relationship manager, as his profession dictates communication. It would be an oxymoron if he didn’t know how to deal with his relationships.

How will Facebook’s mission, values, and culture affect the three components of employees’ attitudes and workplace behavior?

Facebook’s missions will affect the components of employees’ attitudes and workplace behavior because he is striving for connection and openness for people. He will achieve this by having active, social employees. Facebook’s values affect the three components because the values are in line with the needs of employees: simplicity and complexity. Simplicity in regards to its short value statements, and complexity in the general nature of the meaning of his values. Facebook ultimately is looked well upon in the work world, as 96% of employees reported high satisfaction.

What are your thoughts about Facebook’s diversity statistics?

According to the text, it states that “Facebook’s diversity report showed 68% male and 32% female. Ethnicity data for its U.S. workforce revealed 55% white, 36% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% two or more races, and 2% black..”

With all of that being represented, I would like to make an assertion that more than two-thirds of the users are of the male population. This tends to come with men making more aggressive moves on Facebook than women, which shows the need for security. The numbers of the Asian population of Facebook users surprise me; for I would’ve thought that they would use other forms of social media. I would have thought for the information to look a little more like this: “50% Male/female. 50% white, 20% Spanish, 10% Asian, 10% Black, 10% other”. That would be a more fair representation of the users of this social media platform.

Are you concerned that 44% of Facebook’s employees are experiencing high stress?

It depends on the type of stress, the stressor (what is causing the stress), and the impact on the individual employees’ performance. First, if the stress is insignificant, it is actually helping the employee achieve personal goals and professional goals. However, if it is stress-overload, then we might want to split that employees’ tasks up into sections for more than one employee to work on. Next is the stressor: what is causing the initial stress? Is it ordinary stress associated with the task at hand? Whatever the case may be, we sure know that most stressors are normal and help the worker grow. In Facebook’s case, they seem to actually give inspiration to employees. Last is the impact the stress has on the employee. If it is a small stressor but has a huge impact on daily performance, then it looks like there is a need for change. Whatever the result may be, stress is good in moderation.