An Assignment on

"My Personality Assessment by Using the Myers-Briggs Type

Indicator and Determining Occupations Suited to My Personality"

PROGRAM NAME: EMBA

SEMESTER: SPRING - 2020
SECTION: C
COURSE CODE: EMBA 509
COURSE TITLE: ORGANIZATI
ONAL
BEHAVIOR

SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO:

Abdullah Al – Mahmud Md. Rubel

ID: 20193053 Assistant Professor
Major: HRM Department of Management Studies
Batch: 25th
Department of Management Studies

SUBMISSION DATE: 28TH AUGUST, 2020

Acknowledgement
 
 
First and foremost, praises and thanks to the God, the almighty, for His blessings
throughout my assignment work to complete the assignment. I would like to
express my deep and sincere gratitude to my course teacher Md. Rubel,
Assistant Professor of Department of Management Studies in Jahangirnagar
University for giving me the opportunity to do assignment and providing
invaluable guidance. This assignment is on ‘My Personality Assessment by
Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Determining Occupations Suited
to My Personality’. I have given my best effort to make this assignment. At last
I want to say that if I have made any mistake, kindly forgive me.
 

Thank You.
Table of Contents

01 Concept of The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) 4

02 Summary of My MBTI Results 6

03 About INFP (The Mediator/The Idealistic) 7

04 How My Type Affects My Career Choice 7

05 Most Popular Occupations for INFP 9

06 Reference 11
 Concept of The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessment is a questionnaire designed to

measure the psychological preferences that shape how people perceive the world
and make decisions. The original developers of the personality inventory were
Katharine Cook Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Briggs Myers. They began work on
a questionnaire during World War II to help women who were entering the
industrial workforce as part of the war effort to understand their own personality
preferences and use that knowledge to identify the jobs that would be best for them.
That initial questionnaire grew into the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which was
first published in 1962. The MBTI focuses on normal populations and emphasizes
the value of naturally occurring differences between people.

The Myers Briggs model of personality developed by Katherine Briggs and Isabel
Briggs Myers, is established on four preferences namely −

Types of social interaction Preference for gathering data

Preference for decision making Style of decision making

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With respect to the prescribed Myers Briggs type of indicator, preferences include
eight leadership styles −

The MBTI sorts psychological differences into four opposite pairs, or dichotomies,
resulting in 16 possible psychological personality types. None of these types are
good or bad; however, Briggs and Myers theorized that societies as a whole naturally
prefer one overall type. In the same way that writing with the left hand is hard work
for a right-handed person, people find that using their opposite psychological
preferences is difficult, even if they can become proficient by practicing and
developing those different ways of thinking and behaving.

We combine the bias to give our Myers Briggs personality type. Say for example,
our preferences are for E and S and T and J, so it leads to personality type of ESTJ.
In the same way, there are sixteen Myers Briggs personality types that can be
generated by combining these four letters together.

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When we put these four letters together, we get our personality type code, and there
are sixteen combinations. For example, INTJ implies that we prefer Introversion,
Intuition, Thinking and Judging (remember, this implies preferences only - an INTJ
also uses Extraversion, Sensing, Feeling and Perception).

Summary of My MBTI Results

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 About INFP (The Mediator/The Idealistic)

Focused on making the world a better place, INFPs are both idealists and
perfectionists. INFPs possess strong value systems, are future-oriented, creative, and
highly religious or philosophical individuals. Driven to meet the needs of others,
INFPs tend to choose creative or human service-oriented careers that allow them to
use their instinctive sense of empathy and remarkable communication skills.

Characteristics of INFP

Quiet Cooperative

Reflective Loyal

Strategic Flexible

Future-Oriented Curious

Empathetic Informal

How My Type Affects My Career Choice

The kinds of tasks and work environment that tend to be preferred by INFPs are
shown in the charts below. Working at these kinds of tasks and in this kind of
environment will help me feel more comfortable and satisfied in my day-to-day
work because I will have opportunities to express my natural preferences.

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Preferred Work Tasks

 Helping others develop or learn

 Working on projects that are personally meaningful

 Expressing creativity through writing or visual arts

 Focusing on future possibilities for a person or a situation

 Working at tasks that allow you to step back and see the big picture and
how all the pieces fit together

Preferred Work Environment

 Offers private time and space to concentrate for long periods without
interruption

 Emphasizes that the work has meaning beyond the paycheck

 Offers opportunities to work in harmony with others who share my

values

 Fosters cooperation and helping

 Trusts people to work autonomously without close supervision

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 Most Popular Occupations for INFP

INFPs typically do well in careers where they can express their creativity and vision.
While they work well with others, they generally prefer to work alone. 

INFPs tend to be very creative, artistic, and spiritual. They are often skilled with
language but may prefer to express their thoughts and feelings through writing rather
than speaking.

Because they have strong ethics and values, they also become passionate about
advocating or defending their beliefs. While they feel strongly about their own
values, INFPs are also interested in learning more about others and are willing to
listen and consider many sides of an issue.

Most Popular Occupations for INFP include

 Artist  Coach

 Writer  Journalist

 Counselor  Industrial Organization

Psychologist

 College Professor  Labor Relations Specialist

 Psychologist  Customer Relationship Manager

 Translator or Interpreter  Human Resources Specialist

 Social Worker  HR Manager

 Interior Designer  Editor

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Eventually, the occupations listed above that are most attractive to INFPs. They are
likely to find these occupations most satisfying because they will
 

 Have opportunities to express their preferences

 Be recognized and rewarded for using their natural gifts and strengths

 Face tasks and problems, they find interesting and challenging.

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Reference

 Robbins, S.P., & Judge, T.A. (2015). Organizational Behavior (Sixteenth Ed.).
Harlow, England: Pearson

 www.yourarticlelibrary.com

 www.myersbriggs.org

 www.bsu.edu

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