The Personality Theory

The Personality Theory is the theory that I chose to be used by managers to enable a groups goals for achievement in the workplace. The Myers-Briggs method is a personality tool used to measure a person’s personality developed by a mother-daughter team, Isabel Briggs Meyers and her mother Katharine Cook Briggs, to help simplify the previous work started by Carl G. Jung in the early 1920s regarding personality types (The Myers-Briggs Foundation, n.d.a.). Jung wrote a book called Psychology Types and it dealt with personality theories that dealt with the psychological types of each individual. The book was too hard to understand by most people which made it difficult to put into use or comprehend. (The Myers-Briggs Foundation, n.d.a.).

Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs, combined their methods along with Jung’s to come up with a simpler version to help identify personality types to this day. They also developed a questionnaire as well called The

Personalities can be developed and improved without taking ownership over a person’s natural personalization. Many case have shown that how an employee performs at work is different from they are at home, or anywhere outside the workplace. For example, an extrovert individual in the workplace can show behaviors of confidence, relaxation and familiarity because as a part of their personality this is what they are used to but if the environment changes to unfamiliar territory a new environment with new experiences can cause a extroverted person to become introverted mainly because of being inexperienced in a new setting, like for example a once popular high schooler becoming a freshman at a new college. This is an important method to use especially when appointing new employees to a group or