Understanding Management (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305502215
Author: Richard L. Daft, Dorothy Marcic
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 10, Problem 1GL
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The different styles of management and systems managers can implement to enhance employees and rectify their errors about the Myers-Briggs Type indicator.
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The MBTI assessment measures a person’s preferences for introversion versus extroversion, sensation versus intuition, thinking versus feeling, and judging versus perceiving. Each of these types can have negative or positive consequences for behavior. The major two preferences that seem to be most strongly associated with effective management in a variety of organizations and industries are thinking and judging, However, managers with other preferences can also be good managers.
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