Discussion on MBTI Type

Please read the uploaded documents (Chapter 3) and expand your critical thinking about the differences in people and how to appreciate and effectively manage these differences in the workplace.

1. Take the abbreviated (and less accurate) Myers-Briggs test. Reveal your MBTI type in your response and describe the following scenarios:

a. An organizational situation (job function, event, team assignment, etc.) where your personality type could be at a disadvantage (real world or hypothetical)

b. A situation where your personality type might be an advantage (real world or hypothetical)

c. Based on your MBTI, how you learn best?

2. Respond to the following two questions about negative effect and self-monitors:

a. Imagine that you have a person with negative affect in your organization. What might be a positive contribution that this person could make in a group where

everyone else has positive affect and similar backgrounds?

b. What contributions can high self-monitors make in organizations? Low self-monitors?

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According to the results of the Myers-Briggs tests, my personality type is the Protagonist (ENFJ-A). According to these results, I am more extroverted than introverted. The findings imply that I like spotlight being shown on me at all times…