personality assessment. The MBTI is one of the most popular personality instruments used by management to enhance employee communication patterns and understanding. The MBTI is primarily concerned with valuing differences in people that result from where they like to focus their attention, the way they like to take in information, the way they make decisions, and the kind of lifestyle they adopt. The MBTI will help employees identify their strengths and help them to better understand and appreciate the valuable diversity of others. Employees can use the information to better understand themselves, their motivation, their strengths and competencies in the workplace, and potential areas for growth. The MBTI also enables managers to examine organisational type profile and how employees will work most effectively within this culture. Employees will gain great benefit from an understanding of their own and other's personality type. It has helped people worldwide in their choice of career, understanding of how they react and work in both social and job situations, what makes them comfortable and uncomfortable in their interactions with others and what they can expect in their personal development as they mature.THE BIG FIVE MODEL OF PERSONALITY The Big Five (Five-Factor) Model of Personality is an emerging new personality paradigm that is not a radical departure from the MBTI, but rather more of an evolution from it. The new model involves five dimensions of personality, a normal distribution of scores on these dimensions, an emphasis on individual personality traits (the type concept is gone), with preferences indicated by strength of score.The Big Five Model of Personality is based on the and is model based on experience and evidence, not theory. If you classify people as low or high on each dimension, 25 separate types of personality exist.Originally developed by Tupes and Christal during the 1950's, redefinition by Costa and McCrae ...
