[DevelopingPotentialUK]

Hi,

I am conducting some research in how practitioners can support the application of personality type more effective in the work place. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I have put together a short survey which can be accessed at www.surveymonkey.com/s/YNS9H6K Please feel free to forward the link to others that you know - it would be great as large a population as possible.

Many thanks,

Dan

[McRumi]

ISTPs do not like workplaces.

[Grey]

Please do not spam the forum with threads that can be best consolidated into one. I've taken your survey and moved it to the Myers Briggs Forum, but keep this in mind for future threads you make.

[DevelopingPotentialUK]

Thank you, apologies

[snail]

I just took the survey, but I must say it assumes a lot about the kind of job I would be willing to take. I've never worked in an office setting or had to deal with meetings and group projects. I'd usually avoid those kinds of professions.

[Kevinaswell]

I don't want them to support it in the work place.

Sure, it can help. If you're the type that fits the job you're looking for....

....but you got 15 other types they could be looking for.

And I don't really like those odds.

[DevelopingPotentialUK]

Thanks Snail,

Any reply is a good reply. It is all information that I can use to identify trends and usse as a starting point.

Thanks again for taking the time to answer the questions,

Dan

[DevelopingPotentialUK]

@ Snail again - on an INFP level, I understand - I run my own business for that very reason, and mostly work outdoors with young people...i love to have my meetings in the middle of a lake in a canoe, love to be coached by only those i deeply respect

@ Kevinaswell - an interesting comment. Can you share some more of where that comes from? Do i sense some previous negative experiences in relation to the ethical use of type in the workplace?

[Kevinaswell]

@ Snail again - on an INFP level, I understand - I run my own business for that very reason, and mostly work outdoors with young people...i love to have my meetings in the middle of a lake in a canoe, love to be coached by only those i deeply respect

@ Kevinaswell - an interesting comment. Can you share some more of where that comes from? Do i sense some previous negative experiences in relation to the ethical use of type in the workplace?

Nothing specific in relation to MBTI, but that's because as you said, it's not the MOST prominent thing.

My experience is with those stupid fucking tests some employers make you take asking stupid ass ethical problems that are ultimately trick questions. I just see no possible way that a system like this could increase the fairness of the hire OR the overall fit of the job to the person.

Also, MBTI itself is pretty.....in-credible. I would feel most uncomfortable if this was the system that got coorporations to hire me or not >.< I mean, why the FUCK would I EVER get a job over an INTJ?!?!?!?! To a person who doesn't know that much about MBTI (which includes how ultimately meaningless it is--a fact I'm sure they wouldn't take into proper consideration from a hiring perspective), it'd be a much wiser decision to go with the INTJ. Especially when money, legalities, etc., are on the line.

If this sort of thing got implemented super hardcore into hiring processes, I think a large amount of those being hired would experience the anxieties of consciously knowing such an important decision in their life is being influenced by an ambiguous unrealistic personality "test".

[Nitou]

I took the survey, and this is my first post. But I am in agreement with Kevinaswell. Ideally the MBTI could be used to help make people happier and more productive at work. But in reality, many businesses are managed by self-important windbags whose main job is to sit in an office and think up dumb, morale-reducing ideas. The MBTI would inevitably be used for nefarious ends. I am one who never passes these stupid discriminatory personality tests and I have known intelligent people to be screened out of even applying for a promotion while the person who is dumber than a box of rocks gets the job. It's frustrating.