Briggs Personality Types

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Meyers Briggs Personality Types As They Relate to Behavior In The Workplace

Gloria Brown

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What are the Myers Briggs Personality types and indicators and how do they relate to behavior in the workplace? What dimensions does the test measure and how does it come in to play in the workplace?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was designed by Isabel Myers-Briggs and Katherine Briggs in the 1920’s, based on Carl Jung’s psychological types. The general aims of type theory involve examination of self and others and self-development. The first aim of type theory is “to provide an economical summary of central aspects of personality, one which increases self-understanding and implies certain ways of behaving more than others” (Bain 1995). The second aim is to help individuals value those people who are of a different type. The third aim of type theory is to encourage people to value their type and to highlight areas of personal development.

The test measures four different dimensions of human preferences through a self-evaluating questionnaire that can usually be completed in 15 – 20 min. The first dimension, extraversion (E) versus introversion (I), indicates whether a person gets their energy from the outside world of people (preference for extraversion) or from the inside world of thoughts and ideas (preference for introversion). The second dimension, sensing (S) versus intuition (N), represents whether a person prefers the details of a situation (sensing preference) or the overall picture of an experience (intuition preference. The third dimension, thinking (T) versus feeling (F), indicates the way people make their decisions. People with a thinking preference tend to make their decisions based on logic, facts, and fairness, while individuals with feeling preference tend to focus on the effect that their decisions will have on the...