Improvement of Execution Time According to the Type of Character

of the Engineering Personnel in an Ecuadorian Oil and Gas Industry

Marcos Cevallos

, Fausto Calderon

, Wilson Arias

and David Zaldumbide

EP Petroecuador, Quito, Ecuador

Universidad Politecnica de Santa Elena, La Libertad, Ecuador

Centro de Estudios Heinsenberg, El Pangui, Ecuador

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Portoviejo, Ecuador

Keywords: Personality Characteristics, Temperament Types, Decision Making, Efficiency, Oil, Characterology.

Abstract: As part of the continuous improvement process of the Facilities and Construction Department of an Oil and

Gas company, the analysis of the impact of character distribution of the engineering personnel was carried

out and the correlation in the times of construction processes and decision-making was understood. The

Characteristic TEST prepared by Mtra. Mariel Martinez Dueñas, with the authorization of Professor Jorge

Huerta Bleck, MBA. Below are the results as of June 20, 2019, it was performed on 16 people, distributed

Men - 7, Women - 11. The engineering team has a tendency to sanguine, followed by phlegmatic and choleric.

(Calhoun, N. R. (1946)).

1 INTRODUCTION

The changing scenario of the Oil industry, not only at

a global level but particularly at a national level,

forces us to take better advantage of and optimize all

resources, as is the case of Oil companies. (Tsiga, Z.,

Emes, M., & Smith, A.(2016)). Being able to

implement on time the necessary projects for the

proper functioning and development of the oil fields

assigned to Oil companies implies that the best

practices of the industry are implemented, as well as

the cutting-edge technology available. (González, M.

C. C. G. (n.d.)).

The oil industry adopts state-of-the-art

technologies at a technical level, to increase the

effectiveness of the operation and within this

optimization of resources it is also necessary to

optimize the engineering processes to be applied to

the construction projects of oil facilities. (Montero V,

J. C., Díaz R, C. A., Guevara T, F. E., Cepeda R, A.

H., & Barrera H, J. C. (2013)

In the experience of being part of this type of

projects, it has shown that one of the relevant factors

that affects execution times and adequate decision-

making is the technical preparation, the

administrative training of the engineering personnel,

as well as knowing, according to the type of character

of each person, the most appropriate tasks and the

potentializing of the capacities of each member of the

team. (Florencio Carrera, M. (2011))

The engineering staff in charge of construction

projects is highly trained, motivated and has the

appropriate software and tools to carry out the work,

but from the analysis of the year 2018, which was

carried out on the number of projects executed as well

as the times it took conceptualize them and achieve

the contractual documents, it was observed that

improvements could be made.

There have been administrative theories

(Alhassan, M. A., Zulkipli, G., & Nizam Isha, A. S.

(2014)) that have been implemented focusing on

improving productivity by achieving relative success,

but one variable that I want to focus on in this article

is knowledge of the types of characters (Raza, A., &

Capretz, L. F. (2011)) possessed by the engineering

staff in order to optimize the functions of the

equipment. Jara, M., Olivera, M., & Elmer, Y. (2018).

Carl G. Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and

philosopher concluded that we are all born with four

psychological functions, four distinct ways of

knowing and interacting with the world around

us.(Personality Type (Lenore Thomson)(z-Lib.Org),

n.d.)

Greek medicine classified people in terms of

bodily secretions: phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric, and

melancholic, as well as Neoplatonic, Tarot,

Cevallos, M., Calderon, F., Arias, W. and Zaldumbide, D.

Improvement of Execution Time According to the Type of Character of the Engineering Personnel in an Ecuadorian Oil And Gas Industry.

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Astrological.(Personality Type (Lenore Thomson) (z-

Lib.Org), n.d.).

Figure 1: Different types of personalities.

Figure 2: Jung defined four distinct ways of interacting with

the world around us.

In the study of Personality dimensions and

temperaments of engineering professors and

students carry out by Raza A. Carpretz it´s noticed

that although all personality types contribute

towards problem solving one way or the other, it

states that software engineering discipline attracts

people of all psychological types, even though

certain personalities have more representation than

others in this field. According to the survey analysis,

both the professors and the students tend to be

introverts. Similarly, in both the samples the

dominant personality type is a combination of

Introversion, Sensing, Thinking, and Judging (ISTJ).

Another popular indicator is The Myers-Briggs

Type Indicator (MBTI) and is one of the most popular

tools used in organizations for the classification of

personality types.

The number of definitions of personality is

probably only equalled by the number of books and

articles on the subject. according to William Walter

Farquhar(UMI Number: EP72888, n.d.)

In our study we will refer that there are types of

phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric, nervous, passionate

characters and each one has characteristics that

benefit the tasks that must be carried out.

2 METHODOLOGIES

In this article, the Descriptive methodology was used,

in which a survey was built based on the

Characterological TEST prepared by the Mtra. Mariel

Martinez Dueñas, with the authorization of Professor

Jorge Huerta Bleck, MBA, to know the types of

characters of the engineering staff, it was applied to a

population of 16 engineers from the Department of

Facilities and Construction distributed as follows: 7

men and 11 women, in order to collect the

information, the survey designed to be filled out by

each person was provided and the data was processed

and tabulated to know the different types of

characters (phlegmatic, sanguine, choleric,

melancholic).

Figure 3: IESE Article: Family business: a sum of

personalities. Published in Expansión magazine 2014.

The personnel were grouped by character type and

compared against the functions they had been

performing and the rjnesults of the number of projects

successfully completed in 2018 were compared. With

the knowledge of the individual characters, a

redistribution of functions and tasks was carried out

and measured the number of successful projects

carried out from January to June 2019, a distribution

of projects by year 2018 and 2019 was made,

observing the percentage of increase.

Figure 4: Typology of Heymans-Le Senne.

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In order to determine the types of temperaments, a

survey was carried out based on the following

questionnaire.

Figure 5: Emotional dimension.

Figure 6: Answer sheet.

3 ANALYSIS OF RESULTS

The survey was carried out on each person,

instructions were given and 30 minutes were given to

answer it.

From the application of the survey to FIC UIO

(Facilities and Construction engineering team) the

following results were obtained: Sanguineous 6,

choleric 4, phlegmatic 4, passionate 1, nervous 1.

Figure 7: Type of personnel characters.

4 CONCLUSIONS

As a Facilities and Construction team, there was a

tendency towards phlegmatic and sanguine

personnel. From the results we obtain that the group

of engineering technicians dedicated to preparing the

technical information of the contractual processes 4

phlegmatic people who tend to be organized,

practical, efficient, 4 sanguine who also tend to be

warm, friendly, talkative, enthusiastic and 1

passionate who also tends to be a peacemaker,

efficient, when it comes to support staff to prepare

and review pre-contractual administrative

documentation, we had 4 choleric who are willful,

productive, tend to be leaders, result-oriented, 2

sanguine as well very attentive, enthusiastic and 1

nervous result-oriented, warm.

By distributing the work according to the type of

character trend, it was possible to improve the

performance of 70% of the work team, that is, the

number of successful projects completed was

increased compared to those of the year 2018.

Improvement of Execution Time According to the Type of Character of the Engineering Personnel in an Ecuadorian Oil And Gas Industry

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