Fundamentals of Management 7th Edition by Ricky Griffin

Exercise 25

Exercise Overview
Interpersonal skills refer to the ability to communicate with, understand, and motivate individuals and groups. This exercise introduces you to a widely used tool for personality assessment and shows how an understanding of personality can be of use in developing effective interpersonal relationships within organizations.
Exercise Background
Of the many different ways of interpreting personality, the widely used MBTI categorizes individual personality types along four dimensions, which were discussed earlier.
Using the MBTI, researchers use survey answers to classify individuals into 16 personality types-all the possible combinations of the four Myers-Briggs dimensions. The resulting personality type is then expressed as a four-character code, such as ESTP for extravert, sensing, thinking, and perceiving. These four-character codes are then used to describe an individual's preferred way of interacting with others.
Exercise Task
When you've determined the four-letter code for your personality type, you can get a handout from your instructor that will explain how your personality type affects not only your preferred style of working but your leadership style as well.