Introduction
The Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a valuable tool to help understand your personality type so that you can develop better strategies to understand how you interact with the world around you. To develop leadership skills it is better to understand where you align on the MBTI grid to strengthen the skills you currently possess and to improve the ones that will help you succeed. Ethical decisions may not be an everyday occurrence in business, but to understand the foundation on how the decisions are drawn from can help make the most ethical decision needed for the situation.
Having a good understanding of your personality type will help in all aspects of business in the US and in other cultures. Once you know how your personality works with other aspects of the personality chart will help to adjust your leadership skills to be the most impactful with other people. MBTI Type My MBTI type is ESTJ, which is extravert, sensing, thinking, and judging. This is an appropriate type for me as I am in a sales career where I do need to be extroverted as well as make rational decisions using rationale to make my decision instead of on a gut feeling. These characteristics are helpful for me to make decisions on how I work with my customer and how to evaluate their needs and recommend the right products. Learning from previous interactions will help with similar situations in the future. The approach that I would favor when making ethical decision would be Kant’s Absolute Imperative. Part of his theory is based on moral law and not of Divine will which is a value that I agree with (Van Impe, 2014). Many people feel that to be moral, you need to have religion to dictate what is good and what is bad. I have only been to religious institutes a few times in my life so I haven’t pick up my values through church, I made decisions based on values and situations that I have experienced. Through my experiences, I make decisions on situations that I haven’t experienced yet, but need to make a moral decision. Ethics Approach The way I would approach ethics is through sensing and thinking approach. Plonien (2015) found that information and what kind of information is attractive through sensing is using the information around them and processing the data to make an informed decision. Through intuition, they use more of a gut feeling or “read between the lines” of a situation. I will take in the information about a situation and make a decision based on facts. Working at Atari, I needed to make decisions on how many units of a product to sell into a store. If the title was a brand new intellectual property (IP), then I would not be able to forecast as easily since I have no other sales to base the decision on. I would need to look at facts from other similar titles and genres of games and how well the retailer so those units. Once compiling the information, I would make a decision based on that information. Some sales people would …show more content…
It also helps to capitalize on working with other individuals in business by understanding how your perception of the world fits in with other people. When making ethical decisions it will be clearer on how these decisions come to fruition, either looking at issues and making decision based on past experience or if it is with gut intuition. The way we develop these decisions are no more correct using either method, but when knowing how you develop the decisions is very useful. Knowing that I am ESTJ will help me create a strategy that will best suit these character traits.
References
Burnes, B., & By, R. (2012). Leadership and change: the case for greater ethical clarity. Journal of Business Ethics, 108(2), 239-252. doi:10.1007/s10551-011-1088-2
Plonien, C. (2015). PERIOPERATIVE LEADERSHIP. Using personality indicators to enhance nurse leader communication. AORN Journal, 102(1), 74-80 7p. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2015.05.001
Van Impe, S. (2014). Kant 's moral theism and moral despair argument against atheism. Heythrop Journal, 55(5), 757-768.
Vicky, T., & Tan Ngoh, T. (1999). Personality type and the singapore manager: Research findings based on the mbti. Singapore Management Review, 21(1),
The Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a valuable tool to help understand your personality type so that you can develop better strategies to understand how you interact with the world around you. To develop leadership skills it is better to understand where you align on the MBTI grid to strengthen the skills you currently possess and to improve the ones that will help you succeed. Ethical decisions may not be an everyday occurrence in business, but to understand the foundation on how the decisions are drawn from can help make the most ethical decision needed for the situation.
Having a good understanding of your personality type will help in all aspects of business in the US and in other cultures. Once you know how your personality works with other aspects of the personality chart will help to adjust your leadership skills to be the most impactful with other people. MBTI Type My MBTI type is ESTJ, which is extravert, sensing, thinking, and judging. This is an appropriate type for me as I am in a sales career where I do need to be extroverted as well as make rational decisions using rationale to make my decision instead of on a gut feeling. These characteristics are helpful for me to make decisions on how I work with my customer and how to evaluate their needs and recommend the right products. Learning from previous interactions will help with similar situations in the future. The approach that I would favor when making ethical decision would be Kant’s Absolute Imperative. Part of his theory is based on moral law and not of Divine will which is a value that I agree with (Van Impe, 2014). Many people feel that to be moral, you need to have religion to dictate what is good and what is bad. I have only been to religious institutes a few times in my life so I haven’t pick up my values through church, I made decisions based on values and situations that I have experienced. Through my experiences, I make decisions on situations that I haven’t experienced yet, but need to make a moral decision. Ethics Approach The way I would approach ethics is through sensing and thinking approach. Plonien (2015) found that information and what kind of information is attractive through sensing is using the information around them and processing the data to make an informed decision. Through intuition, they use more of a gut feeling or “read between the lines” of a situation. I will take in the information about a situation and make a decision based on facts. Working at Atari, I needed to make decisions on how many units of a product to sell into a store. If the title was a brand new intellectual property (IP), then I would not be able to forecast as easily since I have no other sales to base the decision on. I would need to look at facts from other similar titles and genres of games and how well the retailer so those units. Once compiling the information, I would make a decision based on that information. Some sales people would …show more content…
It also helps to capitalize on working with other individuals in business by understanding how your perception of the world fits in with other people. When making ethical decisions it will be clearer on how these decisions come to fruition, either looking at issues and making decision based on past experience or if it is with gut intuition. The way we develop these decisions are no more correct using either method, but when knowing how you develop the decisions is very useful. Knowing that I am ESTJ will help me create a strategy that will best suit these character traits.
References
Burnes, B., & By, R. (2012). Leadership and change: the case for greater ethical clarity. Journal of Business Ethics, 108(2), 239-252. doi:10.1007/s10551-011-1088-2
Plonien, C. (2015). PERIOPERATIVE LEADERSHIP. Using personality indicators to enhance nurse leader communication. AORN Journal, 102(1), 74-80 7p. doi:10.1016/j.aorn.2015.05.001
Van Impe, S. (2014). Kant 's moral theism and moral despair argument against atheism. Heythrop Journal, 55(5), 757-768.
Vicky, T., & Tan Ngoh, T. (1999). Personality type and the singapore manager: Research findings based on the mbti. Singapore Management Review, 21(1),