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.
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I agree that these kind of tests are very helpful in the work environment. I am not sure though if they should be used for hiring managers and create work teams; although it is becoming a fashion now. I believe that relying on such tests are a bit arbitrary, and they should be used more to have an insight about people's tendencies instead of being used to categorize each person into a set pattern that may jeopardize someone's opportunity to step ahead.
Hi Anthony,
Sry, I'm really bad with names- did I work with you on the group assignment for choosing the top 5 survival items?... and we had law 3102 together?
So do you think your results reflect your personality? In one of your earlier entries, I read that you're a manager @ Modell's, so do you think you're a dominant manager?
I wish I knew if I'm writing to the right person- b/c then i'll be able to give you my input based on our group project...
I agree with you when you say that the test should be used in dividing up teams, having each personality represented would give you a broad spectrum of positive traits and would probably ensure the highest efficiency for the group. It also reveals a lot on a strictly personal level, because it teaches us who we are and what we will probably never be, in terms of personality traits.
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