Monday, April 14, 2008

Big D and Little c

For my personal diagnostic profile, my primary trait revealed that I showed Dominance while my secondary trait was conscientiousness. The test turned out to be accurate after I have given it a bit of thought. I always figured that I was more conscientious, yet the test showed me that I want to get everything done my way. While answering the questions I tended to pick more of the dominant characteristics, because that was what was favorable for me. Such as being more insistent rather than tactful. This is a decent balance for becoming a manager because decisions need to be made, while all variables should be analyzed closely. As for becoming another type, I can probably be more influential since conscientiousness just edged over influence.
Determining other people's management "type" is defintely useful either at work or even in class. Professors all have different management styles and students should try to evaluate which type their professor is so they know what to expect for class. As for work, recruiters would benefit from this test since they generally know how the company operates and generally want to get the right managers for the position. This test would also be good for dividing people into groups or teams. Each group should have one of each type of management style. This is good to prevent for example 3 dominant people in a group, which would probably lead to group conflicts.