Use of Personality Assessment as a Class Activity to Integrate and Apply Organizational Behavior Topics

KEYWORDS: Personality Assessment, Classroom Activity, Organizational Behavior , Leadership

In this session participants will complete a personality assessment and analyze their personality preferences as a way to learn how to facilitate the use of personality assessments (MBTI, Keirsey) to teach organizational behavior, principles of management, or leadership concepts at both the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as in consulting settings. An integrated model of individual differences will be presented, and participants will learn how personality assessments can be applied to the Individual Difference Model to teach topics including person-job fit, leadership, communication patterns, team dynamics, and conflict resolution.

Author(s):

Vicki R. Whiting
Westminster College
vwhiting@westminstercollege.edu
United States