Personality-Type

Background
The SLP for this class involves constructing a personal inventory of your management skills, and a plan for improving those skills. In each module, you will complete an assessment of a relevant set of skills, focusing on your strengths and identifying any weaknesses that may have been revealed through the assessment an/or your personal experience. You will then be asked to create a plan by which you can “grow” your strengths and shore up your weaknesses. By the end of the project, you will have a personal management profile and action plan.

Your values and attitudes interact with your personality to have a strong effect on your work life. The fit between an individual’s personality and and a company’s “style” is essential to job satisfaction. Someone who was risk averse, for example, would probably be very unhappy at 3M, a company that has a strong reputation for innovation and risk taking. Understanding the impact of your own personality on others is also essential to building productive work relationships with co-workers, bosses and subordinates alike.

Required Reading
Refer to the required and optional readings for this module, and any other readings which will help you in understanding personality styles and how they affect organizational effectiveness.

Click here to access a site with the Jung Typology personality test. Be sure to click on the interpretive links when you have finished so you can best interpret your score.

Assignment
When you are done, prepare a 2-3 page essay that addresses the following question:

How does my personality-type affect my career and effectiveness at my job?

Keys to the Assignment
The key aspects of this assignment that should be covered in your paper include:

Completion of the assessment according to the guidelines and interpreting the results.
Include the actual results.
Review the sections on Self-Awareness and Personal Growth, as well as Career Choices and incorporate this information in formulating your responses.
What did the test reveal about you?
What can you infer from this test about your strengths and weaknesses?
How does what you know about your personality type affect your motivation? Is this specific to a limited type of situation?
What specific steps can you take to increase your strengths and build up areas of weakness?
Assignment Expectations
Your paper will be evaluated on the following points:

Precision – Does the paper address the question(s) or task(s)?
Clarity – Is the writing clear and the concepts articulated properly? Are paraphrasing and synthesis of concepts the primary means of response to the questions, or are excessive use of quotations how thoughts are conveyed?
Breadth – Is the full breadth of the subject, i.e., the keys to the assignment, addressed?
Depth – Does the paper address the topic in sufficient depth, and include the background readings and other background resources as references?
Organization – Is the paper written well? Does the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary appropriate to graduate level work? Are headings included in all papers greater than 2 pages?
Referencing (citations and references) – Does the paper use citations and quotation marks where appropriate? Are the references from the background readings and assignment used and properly cited? Are all references listed in the bibliography used and referred to via citation?
Application – Are the concepts of the module appropriately applied to the subject organization?
Tips and Suggestions
Please note the following tips or suggestions:

Include a cover page and reference page, in addition to the 2-3 pages of analysis described above.
Include headings for all papers greater than 2 pages (basically all papers), but do not use headings as “space fillers.”
Cite AND reference all sources that you use in your work, including those that you do not quote but paraphrase. This means include citations and quotation marks for direct quotes of more than 5 words, and citations for that information which you have “borrowed” or paraphrased from other sources.
Follow TUI Guidelines for well-written papers. (Click here if you are unsure of what those guidelines are).
Submit your analysis to CourseNet by the end of this module