Developing Leaders

Research and Applications in Psychological Type and Leadership Development

Author: Fitzgerald, Catherine, Kirby, Linda K.

Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-891060-82-6

£35.00

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Quick Overview

Comprising an essential reference for professionals in organizational psychology, management, and human resources, the seventeen chapters collected in Developing Leaders provide accessible, reliable information on how the MBTI© personality inventory can be used in leadership and management development.

Publication Date: Jan 25, 1997

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Discover cutting-edge applications in leadership development. Comprising an essential reference for professionals in organizational psychology, management, and human resources, the seventeen chapters collected in Developing Leaders provide accessible, reliable information on how the MBTI© personality inventory can be used in leadership and management development. This volume provides a literature review, shows how the MBTI can be used with other assessments to evaluate leadership style, offers current information on psychological type distribution among management groups, illustrates the connections between type and decision-making styles, and demonstrates how the MBTI can be used by executive coaches and trainers. Specific chapters discuss the correlation between MBTI scales and commonly used instruments, show how the MBTI© can be used to improve communications, apply the dynamics of type development to leadership development, and illustrate the connections between psychological type and feedback, transition management, problem-solving styles, and strategic planning.

Preface

Part 1: Overview

1 Introduction: Psychological Type and the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator

2 The MBTI and Leadership Development: Personality and Leadership Reconsidered in Changing Times

Part 2: Research on the MBTI and Leadership Development with Implications for Practice

3 Using the MBTI in Management and Leadership: A Review of the Literature

4 The Relationship Between the MBTI and Measures of Personality and Performance in Management Groups

5 The MBTI and Leadership Skills: Relationships Between the MBTI and Four 360-Degree Management Feedback Instruments

6 Type, Leadership Feedback, and Willingness to Change

7 The MBTI and Decision-Making Styles: Identifying and Managing Cognitive Trails in Strategic Decision Making

8 Co-Workers’ Perceptions of Eight MBTI Leader Types: Comparative Analysis of Managers’ SYMLOG Profiles

Part 3: Applying the MBTI to Management and Leadership Development

9 Applying Type Dynamics to Leadership Development

10 Type Development and Leadership Development: Integrating Reality and Vision, Mind and Heart

11 Enhancing Leadership During Organizational Change

12 Using the MBTI With Management Simulations

13 Using the MBTI Step II With Leaders and Managers

14 STJs and Change: Resistance, Reaction, or Misunderstanding?

15 Integrating the FIRO-B With the MBTI: Relationships, Case Examples, and Interpretation Strategies

16 Strategies for Using Psychological Type to Enhance Leaders’ Communication

17 Type Flexibility in Processes of Strategic Planning and Change

Contributors

Index

Catherine Fitzgerald, Ph.D., provides consultation and executive coaching services to public and private sector organizations. She is on the faculty of the National Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland. Linda K. Kirby, Ph.D., is a trainer, speaker and writer, and is coauthor of The Challenge of Change in Organizations.

“Developing Leaders provides cutting edge information, ideas, and application on the MBTI and leadership. It gives important insights into such critical topics as MBTI and midlife, the link with the 360-degree feedback instruments, and strategies for helping executives deal with organizational change.”

-- Patricia Stocker, Ph.D., Associate Dean and Director of Executive Programs, Maryland Business School, University of Maryland

"Drawing on the best of the MBTI research, Fitzgerald and Kirby have given us an excellent tool for our management studies. It is thought provoking and rewarding. An excellent book."

--William Bridges, author of Transitions, Managing Transition, JobShift, and Creating You & Co.

"A superb integration of theory, research, and practical application. This volume sets a new standard of excellence in its depth of presentation of type theory, its careful use of empirical research to explore theory and application, and its superb presentation of case examples to illustrate the conceptual frameworks presented."

--Naomi L. Quenk, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist and author of Beside Ourselves and In the Grip

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