Personality I: Measuring differences in organizations

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Personality IMeasuring differences in
organizations
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Road Map for Course

• Personality

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• Relationships

• Group

• Context

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Measuring Personality

• Specific Mach, Type A

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Measuring Personality

• General Big 5

• Openness

• Conscientiousness

• Extroversion

• Agreeableness

• Neuroticism

• General Myers Briggs Type Indicator

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Work Styles
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Work Styles
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Communication Styles
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POPULATION DISTRIBUTION
Extrovert gt 4 lt Introvert
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20
31
Sensing gt 4 lt Intuiting
22
37
41
Thinking gt 4 lt Feeling
49
31
20
Judging gt 4 lt Perceiving
61
19
20
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Personality differences in organizations

• Working relationships
• Source of personal bias
• Blinders
• In groups
• Conflict and misunderstanding
• Complementary perspective, flexibility,
  creativity
• Group projects
• Achieve balance

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Limitations

• Cognitive only
• Few dominant on all we can do both
• We can behave and change against type
• Simplified, Static, Imperfect
• Good for
• Self awareness
• Managing relationships
• Making groups work

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Key Themes

• Preferences in work styles and communication
• Source of conflict, but also key to high
  performance
• Application getting the right mix
• Other differences race, gender, age