MBTI PERSONAILTY and types of personality and implication and limitation

1. MBTI
Myers Briggs Type
Indicator
Presenter: Kiran Tariq

2. HISTORY

3. • MBTI was developed by Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs
Myers.
• It was inspired from the theory of Carl Jung’s book
Psychological types.
• The MBTI handbook was published in 1944
Introduction

4. • There is extensive research that proves that personality
effects the behavior in various situations.
• The big question is how to measure or assess someone
personality?
• For this purpose, MBTI was developed as personality
assessment instrument.
• It has 100 questions to assess someone personality
across various situation.
Purpose of MBTI

5. • MBTI tool classify a person in four different categories
based on the answer given by them.
• The categories are –
• Extrovert or Introvert (E or I)
• Sensing or Intuitive (S or N)
• Thinking or Feeling (T or F)
• Judging or Perceiving (J or P)
MBTI TYPES

6. Extrovert : are outgoing, Social and Assertive while
Introvert: are Quiet or Shy.
Extrovert and Introvert

7.  Sensing: are practical, prefer routine and order while
 Intuitive :rely on unconscious processes and look at
bigger picture
SENSING and INTUITIVE

8.  Thinking: rely on reasoning and logic while
 Feeling: rely on emotions and personal feeling for any
problem faced.
THINKING and FEELING

9.  Judging: want control and prefer things to be structured
while
 Perceiving: are flexible and spontaneous.
JUDGING and PERCEIVING

10. • Based on permutation and combination of these
categories MBTI instrument develops 16 different types
of personality.
• For E.g. –INTJ were considered as visionaries (future
planer)
• ESTJ are organizers, (planed way)
• ENTP are conceptualizers. ( believed new idea, they
like to try)
16 personality

12.  The instrument got so popular and different companies
like apple, 3M, GE, Citigroup, etc.
 In spite of its popularity it is not free from problems.
 The major issue with this tool that it forces to classify a
person in one of categories. However, a person may lie
in between as well
IMPLICATION and LIMITATIONS