Personality & Diversity in groups

Week 3 Journal

Your Personality Type

Take the Myers-Briggs or Keirsey Temperament Sorter to determine your personality type of the 16 types specified. Conduct a Google search on your type. Do you feel the type is accurate? Why or why not?

How does learning about your type help your involvement in groups, particularly in the human services profession when working with various populations in service delivery, serving on committees, or with groups of colleagues at your organization or agency?

Your journal should be 350-500 words in length. Cite and reference your reflective journal in APA style 6th ed. Format.

ISTJ

Introvert(47%)  Sensing(16%)  Thinking(25%)  Judging(34%)

· You have moderate preference of Introversion over Extraversion (47%)

· You have slight preference of Sensing over Intuition (16%)

· You have moderate preference of Thinking over Feeling (25%)

· You have moderate preference of Judging over Perceiving (34%)

Week 3 - Assignment

Diversity in Groups Article Analysis

Select one published article from any of the online databases listed in the Library that presents research on any type of diversity issue discussed in Chapter 6 of the required text. Some examples are racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, or generational diversity in groups.

Your assignment for this week is to summarize and evaluate the main points or theses of the article. Specifically:

· Summarize the article and its main point(s) or argument(s).

· Identify the methodology and design (example: qualitative and phenomenological) of the research undertaken or put forth.

· State and discuss the implications and meaning of the results.

· Provide your evaluation of the study, critiquing its findings and, if relevant, stating and defending your position on the issue.

· Explain how the research study could be improved or what you might have done differently and why.

· Explain how this research expands the knowledge base on diversity and groups.

· Explain how this research relates to what we are learning in class.

Your paper:

· Should be 850-1,100 words in length.

· Should conform to APA style, 6th edition.

Resources

Required Text

Adams, K., & Galanes, G. (2017).  Communicating in groups: Application and skills  (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Chapter 5: Becoming a Group Chapter 6: Working with Diversity in the Small Group

Required References

Human Metrics. (n.d.). Jung Typology Test [Web page]. Retrieved from  http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/jtypes2.asp (Links to an external site.)

Keirsey.com. (n.d.). Welcome to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter (KTS-II) [Web page]. Retrieved from  http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/register.aspx (Links to an external site.)

McConnell, K. (2014, November 21). Leveraging your personality in the workplace: Understanding your Myers Briggs core type [Video file]. Retrieved from,  Leveraging Your Personality in the Workplace: Understanding Your Myers Briggs Core Type

Fu-Sheng Tsai, Che-Hung Lin, Lin, J. L., I-Pin Lu, & Aida Nugroho. (2018). Generational diversity, overconfidence and decision-making in family business: A knowledge heterogeneity perspective. Asia Pacific Management Review, 23(1), 53–59.