Self-Assessment Using Myers-Briggs Profile, Costa & McCrae Big 5 Personality Traits, McClelland Needs Analysis And Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Assessment

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and its impact on my personality

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In order to be an effective manager, one requires a great deal of self-awareness, observation, constant development and growth. This assignment sheds light on self-awareness in order to evaluate my future scope of being an efficient manager. The purpose of this assignment is to analyse my personality critically. In this course, some of the self-assessment activities have been followed like Myers Briggs Profile, Costa & McCrae Big 5 Personality Traits, McClelland Needs Analysis, and Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Assessment. With these four self-assessment activities, I have tried to look for pros and cons in relation to my future leadership skills. Based on those findings, an action plan has been developed in this assignment.

Myers -Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has no exception in order to understand self personality. MBTI is an self discovery questionnaire in order to detect psychological components of an individual person (Lloyd 2012). The result of MBTI result is based on four dimensions - extraversion or introversion, sensing or intuition, thinking or feeling, judging or perceiving (Kim and Han 2014). I have submitted MBTI test whose result is shown below.

As per the result of MBTI, I am only 19% extravert. However, for being a good manager, it is essential for one to have an excellent extravert mind (Atay 2012). It helps one to deal with cross-cultural people. Extraversion stands for a person's energy expression for the outer world. However, introversion signifies energy expression of a person about his individual world. Hence, Introversion is a barrier to be a good manager in an international organisation. I am 12% intuitive according to MBTI (Humanmetrics.com 2018). Intuition is about sensibility of a person with which he targets information. Intuition makes a person to be a practical person. I have only 12% power of thinking, which is not good in order to be a good manager (Sternberg and Zhang 2014). The power of thinking helps people to understand the value of a situation in the most effective way. According to MBTI, my power of perceiving is 19%. In order to judging what is right from wrong, it is necessary for a person to have a greater power of person. These four psychological components of MBTI classify human personality into 16 types. With the first letter of Extravert, Intuitive, Feeling and Perceiving, the 16 personality types are indicated.

In order to develop personality, people need to have knowledge about Costa & McCrae Big 5 Personality Traits. The contemporary psychologists of personality development claims that “Big 5” personality traits are universal in terms of establishing bond with cross cultural environment (Barlett and Anderson 2012). The five dimensions of ‘Big 5’are - extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism (Wang et al. 2012). According to traits of Big 5, it is essential for a person to be extrovert in having a progressive journey of expatriate (Brown, J.D., 2016). An extrovert person is considered as the most social, communicative, assertiveness and high level of emotional intelligence in order to deal with people from different cultural and geographical background. In order to execute menagerie role, a person needs to have a creative mind and a good power of imagination (Credé et al. 2012). In this case, being a open minded person is necessary to be a good manager.  Conscientiousness for a manager is the most vital thing in order to lead a project in avoiding risks in the most desired way. In order to show interest for a good opportunity, a manager needs to have agreeableness in his character (Duffy and Lilly 2013). In order to develop loyal relationship from the others, it is important for a person to be of agreeable character. Neuroticism traits refer to the people who are moody and emotionally unstable. This kind of person gets upset easily and generally takes a lot of work pressure.

McClelland’s Human Motivation Theory is regarded as Three Needs Theory (Sartori,  Tacconi and Caputo 2015). Understanding of this theory helps a person to identify by which factors a person is motivated the most. As per McClelland’s, three motivational needs of a person are - needs for achievement, need for authority and power, need for affiliation (Cosby 2014).

In order to be a good manager, a person needs to deal with various kinds of conflicts and grievances of the people (Odetunde 2013). In this reference, a person needs to have a better understanding about Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument. As per TKI, a conflict situation is those in which two persons are found incompatible. As per TKI, there are two dimensions in the behaviour of an individual person - assertiveness and cooperativeness (Trippe and Baumoel 2015).

Understanding of Myers Briggs Profile, Costs & McCrae Big 5 Personality Traits, McClelland Needs Analysis, Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument help me to discover my basic personality. According to me, in order to be an effective manager, a person needs to have outstanding skill of communication with the cross-cultural people. On the other hand, personality development is an ongoing process. Self-awareness is necessary in order to understand strength and weakness of self-personality. In order to avail a better opportunity in career a person need to have a sensible mind. In this case, intuition is extremely necessary. I think that at the present I may not have effective skills of manager. However, I can develop my skill in order to be an effective manager within an organisation. From the given test of Myers Briggs Profile, I came to know that I have extraversion. It is strength of my character. I am a good power of comprehension about a situation. It is another positive side of my career. However, I am little emotional. It is one of the negative points of my character. It is because; in general, emotional person takes a lot of stress from the professional life. On the other hand, I am well intuitive. It will help me to cope up in the most competitive environment. I am a practical and sensible person, which is one of the key potentialities in order to be an effective manager. One of the key aspects of leadership is to developing a most integrated team. The Myers Briggs Profile has 16 number of personality types. Among them, my personality is described the best by ENFP (Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving). It is because ENFP is considered as the best personality in order to solve problem. Risk mitigation is one of the key responsibilities of a manager (Humanmetrics.com 2018). It indicates that I can be a good manager and can handle situation in the most sensible way towards fulfilling targets. ENFP types of personality are considered as the most optimists. The people of this type of personality cannot give up hope easily.

McClelland’s Human Motivation Theory and its impact on my personality

The persons of this type of personality have a positive vive in personal as well as professional life. These type of persons are considered to have a strong determination in terms of facing challenges. On the other hand, these type of persons are genial as well as intellectual. Therefore, in order to influence people this kind of personality is considered a s one of the best. This kind of personality also has a great disadvantage. The persons of ENFP type of personality have a little patience. Therefore, sometimes, these kinds of people are found to take wrong step in hurry. It is true that I am a little impatient. This is one of the major weak points of my character, which will restrict me in terms of being an effective manager. In addition, losing patience disables me to maintain good relationship with the others. Myers Briggs Profile helps me to concentrate on weak points of mine. On the other hand, the person of ENFP categories is considered as the strongest person. They are found to take the right stand against any surprising situation. In addition, these types of person are spontaneous, demonstrative, empathetic and affectionate. Therefore, in order to develop relationship with the people, these type of persons has no exception. These types of persons are motivated by good relationship, performance appraisal more than money. Hence, emotional needs of these types of persons are necessary to be fulfilled in order to be satisfied. ENFP are considered as the most productive persons in terms of working in a group. On the other hand, these type of persons are considered the best in executing brainstorming sessions towards developing a project. ENFPs are found sometimes to be blindsided by their secondary feelings. It is one of the vital negative point of ENFPs, which is necessary to take into account.

ENFP type of persons has extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism in their character. In this case, from the aspect of Big 5 Personality Traits, ENFPs are considered as the most effective manager. However, Big 5 Personality Traits also claims that these type of persons are emotional. Therefore, sometimes these type of persons often gets hurt from the personal as well as professional life. However, Big 5 Personality Traits considers that ENFPs have a great deal of emotional intelligence. Therefore these type of persons are loved by all. In order to be socialised, these types of persons have no exception.

The importance of Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument in personality development

ENFPs are motivated by the achievement in general. They are also preferred to be affiliated with others. On the other hand, designation motivates these kinds of people more than money. Hence, these persons value authority and power in terms of being socially recognised. ENFP type of persons is considered as the most honest and dedicated person in terms of fulfilling job role. The theory of McClelland also claims that ENFPs are challenging in terms of fulfilling intended mission, vision and objectives.

As ENFPs are very much empathetic and affectionate in order to develop friendship with people, these types of persons have excellent skills of handling grievances of the people. In order to manage conflict and dilemma, these types of persons have no exception. Considering Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, I have strong potentialities to be an effective manager as I Belong to the personality category of ENFP.

From the above discussion, it is found that my weak points are - emotion, lack of patience, taking excessive work stress, risk taking mentality, loss of temper and taking anxiety. Based on weak points of mine an action plan has been developed.

My goal of life is to be a good manager within a multinational organisation. In this case, dealing with international clients is one of the important concerns of mine. I am an emotional persons and I become attached with the people very easily. However, it is essential for mine to control my emotional in order maintain a decent professionalism in my character. Moreover, in order to be aggressive in career, it is my first priority to ignore my secondary feelings. I would like to have an expatriate journey in order to lead my professional life. In this case it is necessary to me to increase my power of adaptability with different culture, language, ethnicities of different countries.

Under this section, it is necessary to take into account what is the most important factor to me in order to be motivated. My priority is to execute the most dedicated role within an organisation in terms of fulfilling mission, vision and objectives. In this reference, it is necessary to me to be enough confident in terms of achieving a greater success.

Setting a deadline is necessary in order to know what the right time to achieve my goal is. I think that I need to seek an employment after completing my study of management.

Being emotionally attached with people in professional life restricts one to achieve professional growth and development. On the other hand, inability of controlling emotion weakens people mentally for sometimes. Hence, sometimes people are restricted by emotion in response to the better opportunity in life. On the other hand, in order to execute leadership role it is the most important to me to hold patience. Otherwise, it will not be possible for me to evaluate a situation in the most authentic way in terms of taking the most justified action. On the other hand, emotional person often feel anxious in terms of taking work pressure. In this case, I lose my balance in order to think. Hence, I will hardly able to take the most right decision in terms of handling situation. In Spite of being of challenging character, I have an inherited tendency of taking risks. Due to this tendency, I may be unsuccessful in terms of fulfilling project. If anybody could recognise that I lose my temper easily, they can manipulate situation against me. These characteristics of mine can leave a negative impact in my professional life. In order to have a smooth professional life, it is essential for me to overcome my weak points. 

Due to loss of temper, I may lose my employment in the charge office violation. Therefore, I badly need to develop my patience level. Lack of orientation in job role is also considered as a major threat as I have a very poor ability to hold my patience. On The other hand, I may be victimised of organisational politics. However, as I am excessive emotional, I may get myself very difficult in coping up with organisational politics. Due to excessive emotion, lack of patience and short temper, I will also find me difficult in terms sustaining in a competitive environment.

Having meditation on daily basis will help me to increase my level of patience. On the other hand, it will be effective for me to take open conversation with my seniors and mentors about my weak points of character. It is hoped that their suggestion will be the most effective in terms of overcoming the drawbacks of my character.

I am thinking to consult with the career advisors in terms of moving forward in my career.

It is important for a person to ensure consistency of performance. In order to go ahead in my career, a person needs to be a spontaneous performer against all the hindrances. In order to measure performance level, one needs to set his own milestone for developing performance on daily basis. Self-development is a continuous process. In this course, I would like to hook with the latest technology in order to update myself with time. On the other hand, I need to take into account what I require to change in terms of improving performance level.

Conclusion

From the above discussion, it is concluded that self-awareness is the most vital aspect of human characteristics in order to develop performance level. On the other hand, without having self-awareness, one is unable to determine his mind in terms of setting a goal for career. On the other hand, self-awareness gives one a sensible mind in order to look into his negative sides of characters. Hence, people are able to develop his personality in terms of fulfilling the goals and objectives of career. It is further concluded that in order to be a leader and manager, one badly needs to have self-awareness.

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