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Myth or Fact … Personality tests can improve workplaces

Myth or Fact … Personality tests can improve workplaces. March 24, 2000 John Reiners. Using Personality Tests … is it Magic. What’s personality history/theory traits vs. types Using personality tests to select employees what tests to use & why to improve performance team-building MBTI

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Myth or Fact … Personality tests can improve workplaces

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  1. Myth or Fact …Personality tests can improve workplaces March 24, 2000 John Reiners

  2. Using Personality Tests …is it Magic • What’s personality • history/theory • traits vs. types • Using personality tests • to select employees • what tests to use & why • to improve performance • team-building • MBTI • test your self

  3. History of Personality • What’s personality • unique & stable patterns of behavior, thought, feelings • Personality theories • historic temperaments • traits theory • psychodynamics • Freud & Jung • social & humanistic learning • Personality tests • traits vs. types

  4. Using Personality Tests at Work • Selecting employees • types of tests --cognitive ability, physical ability, work sample, personality, assessment center • which one? JOB RELATED • Improving performance • again, JOB RELATED • team-building, communication

  5. Types of Personality Tests • Personality inventories • MMPI, CPI • pathology based • Personality traits • 16 PF model (Cattell) • big five model • extraversion, stability, agreeableness, openness, + conscientiousness • Personality types • MBTI

  6. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator • Isabel Myers & Katherine Briggs (daughter & mother) developed in 40s-70s • based on Jungian archetypes • 4 basic life processes: SN and TF • 2 orientations to life: EI • MB added orientations to outer world: JP • 16 basic MBTI • Keirsey variation on web

  7. MB Types in Real World • General population -- most common is ESTJ • Es => mktg, insurance, sales, PR • Is => engineers, chemists, librarians • Ss => steelworkers, police, farmers • Ns => writers, psychologists, actors • Ts => sales mgrs, system analysts, auditors • Fs => preschool teachers, clergy, nurses • Js => engineers, nurse admins, judges • Ps => journalists, carpenters, actors

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