You're a Manager About to Hire a New Employee Who

question 69

Essay

You're a manager about to hire a new employee who has taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test. How might the results of this test help you better establish a good working relationship and conditions for this individual?

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Definitions:

Regulatory Fit

A state of congruence or compatibility between an individual's regulatory orientation (e.g., promotion or prevention focus) and the task or goal at hand.

Increased Awareness

A heightened state of knowledge, consciousness, or understanding about a particular issue, phenomenon, or aspect of one's environment or self.

Mortality

The state of being subject to death; often used in statistics to refer to the rate of death within a population.

Peripheral-Route Cues

Aspects of a message that are not directly related to the content but can influence an individual's attitude change, such as the attractiveness of the speaker.