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When managers can't do their jobs cor rectly, the cause for their failure may seem to be insurmountable issues of "style" , irreconcilable differences in personality or ingrained behavioral traits. And yet, argues psychologist Robert Benfari, while it is true that all managers bring different strengths and weaknesses to the table, these styles are not set in stone. Most managers, with proper instruction and effort, can adapt their managerial style to any particular culture, and in some cases completely shed the flaws which make that style less effective than it could be.
Using the Myers-Briggs behavioral classification system, Benfari describes the six- teen personality types that populate the workplace, from the introverted, sensory-oriented thinker to the extroverted, intuition-oriented emotive. Benfari supplements these categorizations by describing fifteen characteristic needs (for domination and autonomy, change and order, introspection and aggression, and so forth), all of which greatly influence a manager's style. Dangerous combinations of personality types and needs can have profound organizational ramifications, yet very few man- agers are even aware of their existence.
ISBN:9780029026359
