Sometimes understanding differences in employees’ personalities helps managers understand how to motivate them. Find out about your personality by going to the Human Metrics Web site ( www.humanmetrics.com ) and take the Jung Typology Test (based on Carl Jung’s and Isabel Myers-Briggs’s approaches to typology).
After taking the test to see your personality type, do a Google search to gain more information about your type.
1. What is your personality type, according to the Jung Typology Test?
2. What are some characteristics of your personality type? How can this help you understand your motivations?
3. Do you feel as if this personality type accurately reflects you?
4. What do you see as some possible weaknesses with this personality type?
5. The text states “personality tests may be used to assess an applicant’s potential for a certain kind of work and his or her ability to fit into the organization’s culture” (Ferrell, Hirt,