Problem:
One of the instruments most widely used in business for profiling personality is called the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory. To access an online version of a short form of the MBTI, referred to there as the "Jung Typology Test". It will only take you about 10 minutes to take the test, and it will be scored for you online and your personality profile presented.
You have completed the assessment, to the degree that you are able to, think about it for a bit; then prepare a paper discussing the following points:
A brief summary of your experience taking the assessment
The degree to which your personality type as indicated by the assessment fits your self-image, or constitutes a surprise in some ways
What you can infer from this assessment about your particular strengths in the workplace
Any areas in which the assessment suggested that you might have work problems to overcome
What specific steps you could take to strengthen your overall managerial competence, based on the new insights that you have gained from this assessment -- be as specific as you can, in the interests of getting the most value from the exercise for yourself
Your overall opinion of this instrument as a measure of things related to personal managerial competence -- what it seems to measure well, anything that you believe it does not measure well or at all.
You are expected to deal with these issues in an integrated fashion, rather than treating them as a series of individual questions to be answered one by one and left at that.
You will be particularly assessed on:
- Your completion of all the steps in the exercise
- Your inclusion of the actual instrument or results, where requested
- Your understanding of the purpose of the assessment, both what it tells you and what it does not tell you
- Your ability to interpret the results of the assessment in terms of your own experience, either to confirm or to question the results
- Your ability to derive from the exercise ideas about improving your managerial understanding and/or skills
- The clarity and quality of your writing