...1. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 2. The Big Five Personality Model 1. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) What is “Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)”? To keep the answer really simple, I would like to explain this approach as: “The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI is a systematic assessment process which involves a 100 questionnaire designed to assess the perception of people about the world and the mental capabilities by using the results of the answers by the interviewees about the decisions they make in some given particular conditions and situations” On the result of the above questionnaire, a person is classified as one of the following: · Extroverted or Introverted (E or I) · Sensing or Intuitive (S or N) · Thinking or Feeling (T or F) · Judging or Perceiving (J or P) Brief explanations of the above classifications are given below: Introverts are usually shy, timid and quiet. 1. Extrovert and Introvert 1. Extroverts are usually action oriented people and generally focuses on taking actions more frequently while introverts are usually thought oriented people and prefer to take actions with less frequency as extroverts. 2. Extroverts like to do more interaction as compared to introverts. Introverts are inclined towards the ‘substantiality’ of the interaction rather than the ‘frequency’ of the interaction. 3. Extroverts like to spend more time with people and in socialization as compared to introverts, who usually like to spend...
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...Mieke Christiani (01120119287) Everybody have different personalities. What is personality? The word personality is derived from a Latin word “Persona” which means mask. About 2000 years ago Greek actors used to wear mask in theatres so that they may resemble characters whose roles they used to enact on the stage before the audience. Thus, according to the concept of mask, personality was conceived to be the effect and influence, which the actors wearing a mask left on the audience. Nowadays, the term of personality has been defined in various ways by the psychologists who had worked on the problem of personality and the variables influencing its development. "Personality can be broadly defined as the total quality of all individual behavior” (Russell 222). “In the words of Boring, personality is the integration of those systems of habits that represent an individual’s characteristic adjustments to his environment” (Goldberg 224). “Personality is an individual of is the entire mental organization of a human being at any stage of his development. It embraces every phase of human character: intellect, temperament, skill, morality, and every attitude that has been built up in the course of one's life." (Harris 333). Personality is the characteristic patterns thoughts, feelings and behaviors that make a person unique and different with others. The various definitions of personality state above can be grouped into categories of definitions that are related to social value, summatic...
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...1a. The concept of workforce diversity is focusing on the differences of people in an organization. Mainly surface level diversity such as gender, race, and age. Deep level diversity such as values, personalities and work preferences. (Robbins. Judge, 15th Edition. 2013) Example is the recruit of foreign talents from regional countries. Advantages 1. Experienced staff to guide the young workforce 2. Understanding of the respective local markets 3. To create and explore new business opportunities 4. Upgrade of technical skills by foreign expertise 1b. There are 4 different types of teams: 1. Problem-solving teams A temporary team that is set up to solve issues that have risen. 2. Self- managed work teams A team that can plan their own schedules, tasks, responsibilities, and make decisions and actions. They have little or no supervision at all. 3. Cross-functional team a team made up of employees with different job functionalities but on the same level to accomplish an objective. 4. Virtual team Team that maximizes the use of advanced communication and technology to perform their task remotely. (Robbins. Judge, 15th Edition. 2013) 1c. The type of team currently implemented in ESA is the self-managed team. Based on their recent work assignment in the Phuket, Thailand, they are able to deliver their work effectively in the absence of Edward. And, they received a good compliment from their client. 1d. Challenges of work diversity - Newly hired may...
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...given the large number of women that have entered the accounting profession over the past few years. Based on the results reported in the cognitive and ethical reasoning literature the research explores two hypotheses as follows: 1. There is no significant difference between the P-scores of male and female staff accountants. 2. The dominant cognitive style among staff accountants is ST. The study employs the Myers/Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a well-known measure for assessing cognitive styles and the Defining Issues Test (DIT) for assessing ethical reasoning of newly recruited auditors from Big-Five firms. Based on MBTI adapted from Fisher and Ott and descriptions of the cognitive styles, the authors deduce a third hypothesis that order for P-scores is SF, ST, NF and NT (lowest to highest). The research uses a sample of 90 consisting of 47 female and 43 male newly recruited auditors. Although not randomly selected, the sample is assumed to be representative of the population of new auditors in Big-Five accounting firms. To test the hypothesis that there is no significant difference between the P-scores of male and female staff accountants, a two-sample t-test is...
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...other Type A’s, his competitive drive leads to stress and an achievement driven mentality which is evidence by his belief in monetary incentives and rejection of the “warm and fuzzy” HR style. His tendency for stress as evidence above is also indicative of a negative emotional stability which can also be linked to Type A personalities. Similarly, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) model (Robbins et al, 2010) Luke’s personality can be described as being more of an ESTJ type in that he has a very practical and matter of fact approach to work. His lack of interest in socialising with others or desire for staff to socialise with others is indicative of his desire to achieve results in the most efficient way possible, a trait which is commonly associated with this personality type. Laura’s Behavioural Profile Like Luke, Laura also exhibits a somewhat negative emotional stability in that she also appears to suffer from stress. This is evident in her weight loss, sleeping trouble and tense and anxious feelings when Luke bursts his temper. However, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) model (Robbins et al, 2010) Laura’s personality can be described as more an ESFP personality in that she enjoys working with others and is sociable and willing to organise social events. She is flexible and can readily adapt to new...
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... which of the following is the least predictive set of criteria used to eveluate employees traits if a manager uses critical incidents as a method of performance evaluation, then ____ the focus of the evaluation will center on key bahaviors. ____involves evaluations ones performance against the performace of one or more others Foreced comparison The concept of____can be applied to apprasials to increase the perception that employees are treated fairly. Due process Which of the following is true with reguard to leadership? It focuses on downward influence of followers. ____is the only tactic effective across organizational levels. Rational persuation to avoid poiticking during peroformance evaluations, and orginazation should_____ use objective criteria reactive and protective behavions to avoid action, blame, orcahge are termed____ Defensive bahaviors Mintzberg's managerial four roles entrepreneur role, disturbance handlers, esource allocators, negotiator role The ability to understand, communite with, motivate and support other people, both individually and ind groups, may be defined as____ human skills (human skills- the ability to work with, understand, and motivate other people, both individually and in groups) conceptual skills The mental ability to analyze and diagnose complex situations. According to fred luthans and his associates, managers involved in traditional management activities undertook which...
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...Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to review and assess the teamwork and chemistry within the newly formed Team Equity. Specific objectives of the report are to overview data gained from the various psychometric indicator tests of each member and to analyse them for any possible interpersonal conflicts which may arise during team activities and offer strong recommendations to the Human Resources Officer to alleviate those conflicts. Conflicts were found relating to how the team would progress through the needed tasks which lead to the completion of the project, differences in acquiring and sharing information, professional conduct, personality differences and differences in mindsets. Recommendations are provided in the report which are presented in order to alleviate the problems and to better the work efficiency of Team Equity of Intelligent Financial Solutions Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd. Table of Contents Contents Executive Summary 1 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 1.1 Terms of Reference 3 1.2 Main Points 3 1.3 Personal Effectiveness 3 1.4 An overview to the Evaluation Tests 4 Psychometric Tests and Results 5 Discussion 10 Overall Analysis 12 Problems and Conflicts 13 Conclusion 14 Recommendation 15 Reference List 16 Appendix 1 17 Appendix 2 24 1. Introduction 1.1 Terms of Reference * As the Human Resource manager Mr. Ranjan Ferdinando of Intelligent Financial Solutions Consultants has requested to investigate...
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...personality theories, types and tests personality types, behavioural styles theories, personality and testing systems - for self-awareness, self-development, motivation, management, and recruitment Motivation, management, communications, relationships - focused on yourself or others - are a lot more effective when you understand yourself, and the people you seek to motivate or manage or develop or help. Understanding personality is also the key to unlocking elusive human qualities, for example leadership, motivation, and empathy, whether your purpose is self-development, helping others, or any other field relating to people and how we behave. The personality theories that underpin personality tests and personality quizzes are surprisingly easy to understand at a basic level. This section seeks to explain many of these personality theories and ideas. This knowledge helps to develop self-awareness and also to help others to achieve greater self-awareness and development too. Developing understanding of personality typology, personality traits, thinking styles and learning styles theories is also a very useful way to improve your knowledge of motivation and behaviour of self and others, in the workplace and beyond. Understanding personality types is helpful for appreciating that while people are different, everyone has a value, and special strengths and qualities, and that everyone should be treated with care and respect. The relevance of love and spirituality - especially...
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...MGMTMBA 202 Liqing Chen SID20923085 To: From: Lisa Barron, Ph.D., MBA Liqing Chen (MBTI TYPE ESTJ) CC: Kim McCarthy STATEMENT: BASCOM GROUP IS A GOOD BUT NOT A PERFECT FIT FOR MY INTERNSHIP I think Bascom Group is a good fit for my internship because the flexibility and strong interpersonal relationship it manifests are both in line with my values as long as potential incongruities are mitigated. 1. The high degree of flexibility at Bascom Group is in line with my values as long as the work is predictable and well planned. 2. Strong interpersonal relationship at Bascom Group is congruent with my personality. However this may also becomes an obstacle for me to integrate into the company if the strong culture does not welcome new entrants. In order to better fit in Bascom Group for internship, two initiatives must be taken: 1. Make sure my one-to-one mentor at Bascom understand that I prefer to set a plan for my internship in advance by communicating with him/her directly. 2. Gain the trust from future coworkers at Bascom by promoting the mutual understanding before internship starts. HIGH DEGREE OF FLEXIBILITY High Degree of Flexibility is Enjoyed by Employees: According to my analysis, the flexibility that employees enjoy at Bascom Group stems from three reasons. 1) Project-based job responsibility. Being a boutique private equity real estate investment company, Bascom Group focuses on acquisition transaction as its core businesses and outsources...
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...HENRY FORD : THE GREAT INNOVATOR Henry Ford : The Great Innovator Henry Ford, the man who gave America wheels, the creator of the first automobile assembly line had humble beginnings. At the age of 16, he ran away from his home in Michigan and changed quite a few jobs. He was a gregarious and well liked. He loved exploring and tinkering with devices. Henry Ford displayeddedication and conscientiousness. He put up a huge amount of effort and persisted with his dream of an automobile. He had a larger amount of drive and passion within him to realize his dream. Also by the implementation of the assembly line and then the moving assembly line shows us how organized and how good a planner Ford was. On the Myers-Briggs type Indicator (MBTI), individuals are classified as extraverted or introverted (E or I), Sensing or intuitive (S or N), thinking or feeling (T or F) and judging or perceiving (J or P). Henry Ford is believed to be an ISTJ which stands for introverted, sensing, thinking and judging. Introversion is how he directed his energy and related to his employees and also the world around him. Sensing is how he focused on the details rather than thinking about abstract information. Thinking is how he made his decisions based on logic thinking and not on personal feelings. Judging is how he oriented himself with his organization and employees and how he planned things out well in advance. He experimented with petrol driven engines and horseless carriages for years...
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...one that is reliable and valid. A reliable test will work the same each time it is administered, and a valid test measures what it intends to measure. Although ethical issues exist, many psychological testing is both valid and reliable, and is a benefit for the employee and organization when used appropriately (Spector, 2008). Psychological Testing in the Workplace “A psychological test is a standardized series of problems or questions that assess a particular individual characteristic” (Spector, 2008, p. 110). These tests are often used to evaluate an individual’s knowledge, skills, and abilities, and include items that specify his or her characteristics of interest. Multiple items on the test provide better reliability and validity compared to single-item tests (Spector, 2008). Psychological tests are typically easy and quick to apply and can assess several characteristics in one test (Spector, 2008). Ability Test An ability test is similar to the aptitude test, in which it tests an individual’s capacity to do or learn a specific task (Spector, 2008). This test covers both cognitive abilities and psychomotor abilities. Both of these abilities are important, depending on the nature of the task. Some tasks may require more cognitive abilities like writing a report, whereas, some tasks might rely more on psychomotor abilities like mopping a floor (Spector, 2008). Cognitive abilities are...
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...contract, had brought a suit against the NFL concerning the head injuries that they sustained on the field during their playing careers. (Anderson, 1). Given the outstanding popularity of football in the United States, these lawsuits have garnered the attention of national media, prompting debate, discussion, and research about the dangers of football-related head injuries and the future of the NFL. (Fenno, 1). The litigation has the potential to reach the scale of the Big Tobacco litigation of the 1990’s, but the NFL has thrown a substantial roadblock in the players’ suit with a federal employment law preemption defense. (Fisher, 1). The consolidation of all the lawsuits into the Multidistrict Litigation has created the ability for both parties to decide the legal issues presented by the players’ claims and the NFL’s defenses. This paper will examine the merits of those claims and defenses, offer insight into how the players applied rhetorical devices to further their case, address the link established between the NFL and Big Tobacco, and how the court could likely rule regarding the concussion litigation, if it makes it to court. To begin, the history of concussions in football has been an extensive one. As mentioned above, retired football players have been joining lawsuits at a tremendous pace. The game of football is changing, as exemplified by the number of rule changes that have been...
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...2015 Richard Samante Prof. Martinez 2015 Richard Samante Prof. Martinez Juvenile Delinquency in Manila Juvenile Delinquency in Manila CR-21 CR-21 CHAPTER I Introduction A. Background of the study Delinquents is from the legislatic point of view the minors committing criminal act are not called criminals but delinquents. The persons under eighteen who commit violations of law are called delinquents. The penal codes of almost all the civilized nations make special provisions for the treatment of delinquents in law courts. There is a consensus among criminologists that delinquents should be reformed rather than punished. Earlier, it was mentioned that, throughout most of the world, juvenile offending has been recognized for hundreds of years. It would be logical to wonder exactly how juvenile offenders in historical times were handled. For one thing, as indicated earlier, there were, however, juvenile institutions and other procedures for handling juveniles that were created in America during the 19th (Roseheim et al. 2002). Historical accounts of the development of the juvenile justice system throughout the world indicate that before separate institutions and proceedings for juveniles were established in the 19th, juveniles were often treated as if they were small adults. Even children of royal families in England, for example, were exposed to adult situations, such as sexual activity among adults, and were thought to be ready for adult roles in society if they...
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...DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY IPS 704 – 2012 PSYCHOMETRICS – ASSIGNMENT 1 LECTURER: Mr R Oliver DUE DATE: 26 April 2012 STUDENT 1: Jodine Hoffmann : 2038038 STUDENT 2: Nonstikeleo Mokoena : 3158789 STUDENT 3: Shafeeqah Jacobs : 2561402 STUDENT 4: Simone` Juganath : 3158797 PLAGARISM DECLARATIONI hereby declare that: | YES | NO | a. | I have perused and understood the relevant sections relating to plagiarism, citation and referencing; | √ | | b. | I know that plagiarism is wrong; | √ | | c. | I did not attempt to present the ideas of another as if they were my own; | √ | | d. | I did not attempt to represent the words or work of another as if they were my own; | √ | | e. | I did not utilize the ideas, words or work of another without acknowledgement; | √ | | f. | I did not use the printed text, electronic text, images, computer programme, sound, performance or creative works of another without proper acknowledgement; | √ | | g. | Where I engaged with group of student to create a particular piece of work, the work correctly reflected the contribution made (where a single piece of work is collected generated, all of the group carries the responsibility for that piece of work); | √ | | h. | I have not allowed, and will not allow, anyone to copy my work with the intention of passing it off as his or her own work. | √ | | i. | I have not copied another person’s assignment, essay or take-home test or any part thereof...
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...Understanding Student Differences bers into formulas but they don’t know how to think!” And yet, most engineering departments have one or more faculty members Department of Chemical Engineering North Carolina State University who manage to get many of those same students to perform at remarkably high levels, displaying first-rate problem-solving and critREBECCA BRENT ical and creative thinking skills. Skill deficiencies observed in engiEducation Designs, Inc. neering graduates must therefore also be attributable in part to what instructors are doing or failing to do. An implication of these observations is that to reduce enrollABSTRACT ment attrition and improve the thinking and problem-solving skills of engineering graduates, engineering schools should attempt to Students have different levels of motivation, different attitudes improve the quality of their teaching, which in turn requires underabout teaching and learning, and different responses to specific standing the learning needs of today’s engineering students and declassroom environments and instructional practices. The more signing instruction to meet those needs. The problem is that no two thoroughly instructors understand the differences, the better students are alike. They have different backgrounds, strengths and chance they have of meeting the diverse learning needs of all of weaknesses, interests, ambitions, senses of responsibility, levels of their students. Three categories of diversity that have been shown motivation...
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