Fundamentals of Management 6th Edition by Ricky Griffin

Exercise 16

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
Conclude by responding to the following questions:
• How easy is it to measure personality?
• Do you feel that the online test accurately assessed your personality?
• Why or why not? Share your assessment results and your responses with the class.