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Go to library or a bookstore Go to Google.com, search on personality tests or on individual tests like locus of control http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html http://www.personalitylab.org/ http://www.personalitytest.net/ipip/ipipneo300.htm http://www.psychologytoday.com/pto/self_tests.php
http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/
Cognitive style
Cognitive Styles
Large number of factors relating to how people perceive, interpret, and respond to information. Many dimensions exist to define cognitive styles Keirsey Sorter or Myers-Briggs two of the best-known
Designed by mother-daughter team, based on work by Jung (1923) Four pairs of attributes leading to a matrix of 16 personality types
Performers ESFP
Cognitive Style
Overwhelming amount of information; we develop strategies for reducing and interpreting it About 80 % of people develop (mostly unconsciously) preferred informationprocessing strategies Here will focus on two major dimensions of relevance for managerial behavior
Holistic view; commonalities, generalizations Have preconceptions about what information is relevant; they look for information consistent with these preconceptions Tend to be convergent thinkers
Focus on details or specific attributes of each element of data, rather than on relationships among the elements rational; tend to examine data to see what patterns there are Sensitive to uniqueness of information and tend to be divergent thinkers
Views of a sunset
Develop from reliance on particular problem-solving patterns Thinkers evaluate information with a plan and follow systematic, sequential steps Appropriate methods and logical progressions Fit problems within existing theories or frames; defend their approaches
Key implications
Sensors focus on details: more subject to info. overloads & personal stress. Too much detail Intuitors handle additions of detail more easily However, when diversity and aberrations exist, intuitors likely to have more difficulty than will sensors (who do careful analyses of data)
Thinkers less effective with creativity/innovation (problems with no apparent solution) Thinking managers better where information suggests a clear-cut computational solution; feeling managers propose too many solutions or even solve wrong problem Thinkers dont do creativity and feelers dont do engineering
Intuitors: reading, integrating, concepts Sensors: memorizing,debating,identifying facts Thinkers: logical reasoning, outlining, writing out Feelers: Creative thinking, diverging, trial-anderror Student intuitors do better in conceptual courses and learn through reading. Exams with one right answer easier for them than for sensors.
In Summary:
Regardless of the type of problem, most individuals use their preferred style to approach it: thinkers implement rational procedures and computer-based systems, for example. Knowing cognitive style can help managers or students in: selecting career options choosing appropriate business environments and managerial assignments such as teams capitalizing on academic strengths