Tom and Jerry have had similar educational backgrounds, share the same interests, and work in the same organization. Tom systematically exhibits an assertive character that may be hostile and aggressive,

while Jerry is a patient, calm, and relaxed individual who is also an organized, methodological professional. Describe the personality characteristics in the Big Five model, and analyze the personality traits of both Tom and Jerry.  
What will be an ideal response?

Personality refers to the structures and propensities inside a person that explain his or her characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. The Big Five personality dimensions include conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience, and extraversion. Conscientious people are dependable, organized, reliable, ambitious, hardworking, and persevering. Conscientious employees prioritize accomplishment striving. They have a built-in desire to finish work tasks, channel a high proportion of their efforts toward those tasks, and work harder and longer on task assignments. Agreeable people are warm, kind, cooperative, sympathetic, helpful, and courteous. They prioritize communion striving. They focus on "getting along" and not necessarily on "getting ahead." Extraverted people are talkative, sociable, passionate, assertive, bold, and dominant. Of the Big Five, extraversion is the easiest to judge in zero acquaintance situations. Extraverts prioritize status striving. They care a lot about being successful and influential and direct their work efforts toward "moving up" and developing a strong reputation. Neurotic people are nervous, moody, emotional, insecure, and jealous. Whereas extraversion is synonymous with positive affectivity, neuroticism is synonymous with negative affectivity. Openness to experience is the final dimension of the Big Five. Open people are curious, imaginative, creative, complex, refined, and sophisticated. This dimension is also referred to as inquisitiveness or intellectualness or culture. It appears from the descriptions that Tom scores high on neuroticism and extraversion, while Jerry scores low on neuroticism and conscientiousness.