Meyers Briggs Type Indicator

Each individual has their own unique

Personality

The Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator

Introduced by Carl Jung in 1920s In early 1940s, Katherine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Meyer extended this personality test 100 item personality test

Basic Model

Mental Processes

Mental Orientation

Mental Processes
Which way of Perceiving or understanding is most "automatic" or natural?
Sensing Perception Mentally live in the Now Practical Improvise from past experience Concrete Specific Intuitive Perception Mentally live in the Future Imaginative Theoretical Guess

Mental Processes
Which way of forming Judgments and making choices is most natural?
Thinking Judgment Objective Head Rules Justice

Feeling Judgment Subjective Heart Circumstance Mercy

Mental Orientations
Which is your most natural energy orientation?
Introverted Quiet Concentrating Thinks, then speaks Reflective

Extraverted Outgoing Interacting Speaks, then thinks Gregarious

Mental Orientations
What is your "action orientation" towards the outside world?
Judging

Structured Time oriented Decisive Organized

Perceiving Flexible Open minded Exploring Spontaneous

Usage

Apple Computer AT &T Citigroup Hospitals Educational Institutions

Criticism

No in-between Unrelated to job performance no criteria for selection of candidates