OB lecture 12 personality MBTI and five factor model

Lecture 12
Personality


Scope for Today
• Personality
• Myers Briggs Type Indicators
• Five Factors Model


Personality
Personality is the enduring patterns
of
thoughts, emotions and behaviors that
characterize a person
enduring !


Personality Determinates
• Heredity
Study of twins

• Environment
e.g. first born are more hardworking,
ambitious
less likely to break the rules, more
concerned with social acceptance.


First Born

Myers Briggs Type
Indicator (MBTI)


Myers Briggs Type Indicators MBTI

There are many different ways (or traits)
to
describe Personality. And this should be
Subject of a psychology course.
The most well-known is Myers Briggs
Type
Indicator (MBTI)


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Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Developed by Isabel Myers and her mother
Katherine Briggs, Myers Briggs Type
Indicator was published in 1962. It is the
most widely used personality test
The Theoretical foundation is from Carl Jung,
a contemporary of Sigmund Freud.

MBTI®

Isabel Myers and Katherine Briggs
The mother read a book by Carl Jung and passed it
to the daughter.


The 2 Famous Psychologists
1900-1920s..
Psychoanalysis
Subconscious
The Interpretation
of Dreams
Oedipus Complex

Sigmund Freud
Austrian
Carl Jung
German Speaking Swiss
Psychological Archetypes


Carl Jung’s Psychological
Types

But It was very difficult to understand
Te – Extroverted Thinking
Fe – Extroverted Feeling
Ti
Fi….

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MBTI
First Letter: E or I

Which is your most
favored Energy Source?

Second Letter: S or N

Which your most
favored Perceiving
Mental Process?

Third Letter: T or F

Which is your most
favored Judging Mental
Process?

Fourth Letter: J or P

Which kind of mental
process leads your
Outside World
Orientation?


There are 16 types

ISTJ

ISFJ

ISTP ISFP
ESTP ESFP
ESTJ ESFJ

INFJ

INTJ

INFP
ENFP
ENFJ

INTP
ENTP
ENTJ


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1. Extrovert or Introvert
How one gets ‘energy;’ from.

Extraversion are drawn to the
outside world as their elemental
source of energy.

Introversion draw their primary
energy from the inner world of
information, thoughts, ideas, and
other reflections.


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2. Sensing or INtuition
How you take in information

Sensing Perception favor clear, tangible
data and information that fits in well with
their direct here-and-now experience.
INtuition Perception are drawn to
information that is more abstract,
conceptual, big-picture, and represents
imaginative possibilities for the future .


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3. Thinking or Feeling
How you make decision
Thinking Judgment have a natural
preference for making decisions in an
objective, logical, and analytical manner
with an emphasis on tasks and results to

be accomplished.
Feeling Judgment make their decisions in
a somewhat global, visceral, harmony and
value-oriented way, paying particular
attention to the impact of decisions and


4. Judging or Perceiving
How you deal with other world
Judging rely upon either their T or F
preference to manage their outer life, to
‘change’ it
Perceiving rely upon either their S or N
preference to run their outer life. This
typically results in an open, adaptable,
flexible style of relating to the things and
people found in the outside world. The
drive is to experience the outside world
rather than order it; in general lack of


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MBTI
2 Mental Orientation
Extroversion/Introversion
Judging / Perceiving

2 Mental Process

Sensing/Intuition
Thinking/Feeling


Distribution of MBTI
Me

CEO
Managers


ENTJ

Former CEO
General Electric


I am a INTJ

Introverted
Intuitive
Thinking
Judging


anmetrics.c
om/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

or

Google
MBTI Test


Does Personality Affect
Performance
e.g.
Introvert is not suitable for sales , at least
not the ‘hunter sales’
Hunter, farmer


Personality in Work Place
1. The higher ones goes in management
the greater the amount of intuitive –
Thinking
2. Sensing - detailed types of job
Biase due to application form


At stress
Feeling types in nursing, social work,
teaching, become depersonalized
and uncaring for others
Thinking more likely to become more
critical and less ambitious, yet more
personal with colleagues and clients