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Diversity Technology, Cultural DNA, and Personality: The Impact on Educational, Medical, Business, and Military Organizations

Diversity Technology, Cultural DNA, and Personality: The Impact on Educational, Medical, Business, and Military Organizations

Dorothy Guy Bonvillain, David R. Faulkner, William Gary McGuire
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 10
ISBN13: 9781466626683|ISBN10: 1466626682|EISBN13: 9781466626997
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2668-3.ch006
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Bonvillain, Dorothy Guy, et al. "Diversity Technology, Cultural DNA, and Personality: The Impact on Educational, Medical, Business, and Military Organizations." Technology as a Tool for Diversity Leadership: Implementation and Future Implications, edited by Joél Lewis, et al., IGI Global, 2013, pp. 85-94. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2668-3.ch006

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Bonvillain, D. G., Faulkner, D. R., & McGuire, W. G. (2013). Diversity Technology, Cultural DNA, and Personality: The Impact on Educational, Medical, Business, and Military Organizations. In J. Lewis, A. Green, & D. Surry (Eds.), Technology as a Tool for Diversity Leadership: Implementation and Future Implications (pp. 85-94). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2668-3.ch006

Chicago

Bonvillain, Dorothy Guy, David R. Faulkner, and William Gary McGuire. "Diversity Technology, Cultural DNA, and Personality: The Impact on Educational, Medical, Business, and Military Organizations." In Technology as a Tool for Diversity Leadership: Implementation and Future Implications, edited by Joél Lewis, André M. Green, and Daniel W. Surry, 85-94. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2668-3.ch006

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Abstract

For the last sixty years, personality and personality traits (or characteristics) have been studied, researched, and applied to managing individuals and organizations. Some practitioners say that personality research predates the Roman Empire and the Great Greek Philosophers. The use of personality identification as a form of diversity leadership and possible technology is becoming more popular in helping people and organizations assign tasks within the organization as well as to enhance the performance in the organization. The Myers Briggs Type Instrument (MBTI) is one personality tool that strategically links diversity to cultural DNA and enhances the performance educational, medical, business, and military leadership worldwide. There are other personality instruments that can provide similar results, but the authors have chosen the MBTI to best depict how personality can easily be applied to diverse systems to measure individual and organizational change. The impact of these and other diversity characteristics, competencies, and technologies must be filtered through formal instructional systems, design processes, and evaluation procedures to help leadership identify strengths and weaknesses within the organization regardless of the type of organization. There will be a need for varied evaluation and measures to help sustain effectiveness and outcomes. The authors present a brief framework for these measures.

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