The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tells a story about your personality or the personality of your colleagues. It can be a useful tool for identifying your personality traits, in both your work and personal life.
For this Discussion, you will take a simplified Myers-Briggs assessment and relate it to your organizational leadership style.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review the Learning Resources for this week.
Complete the following self-assessment.
Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory
When you've completed the self-assessment, review your personality type.
Post your personality type to the Discussion area (e.g., INFP, ESTJ).
How does your Myers-Briggs personality type relate to your leadership style?
What leadership theory do you think you would apply to leading an organization or department? Why? Be sure your answer relates to your Myers-Briggs personality type.
Below are some of the leadership theories you studied this week.
The great man theories
Trait theories
Contingency theories
Behavioral theories
Situational leadership theory
Transformational leadership
Provide two examples of situations that you might encounter in an organization and how, with respect to your score and one of the above theories, you would be likely to handle the situation.
RESOURCES
Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T. A. (2017). Essentials of organizational behavior (14th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Chapter 12, "Leadership"
The authors compare the terms leadership and management. They also present various leadership theories and the types of leadership.
Methods for selecting and creating leaders also are addressed. Additionally, the authors describe circumstances when leadership may not be necessary.
Chapter 13, "Power and Politics"
This chapter contrasts the terms leadership and power. It explores the bases of power and power tactics, the causes and consequences of political behavior, and the ethics of behaving politically.