TQM Management Development in Public Agencies Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Adjective Check List
vice (IRS), a federal agency that has implemented Total Quality Management (TQM). This article will assess the advantages of using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and The Adjective Check List (ACL) in public sector leadership development efforts. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers and Myers, 1980) is used in a variety of settings by trainers and career counselors to help individuals identify their interests and to use that information to se-
Assessing Creative Persons
Personality assessment, in contrast to psychodiagnosis, psychological testing, and the measurement of individual differences, attempts to delineate the person as a whole through the use of a multiplicity of procedures and emphasizes the more favorable and positive aspects of personality and its potentialities for effective functioning. Developed during World War II, the method has been most extensively used by the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, University of California. Berkeley, in its studies of highly creative persons. In these researches the characteristics of such persons have been effectively revealed, e.g., through the use of life history interviews, personality trait ratings, an adjective check list, and the Q-sort method, and their level of creativeness predicted by multiple regression analyses.
Portrait of Jung: An Illustrated Biography.
Gerhard Wehr; New York, Herder & Herder, 1971. Originally published in 1969 under the title Jung im Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, this English translation by W. A. Hargreaves offers a very fine biography of the Swiss psychiatrist. The prose is crisp and clear. A major plus factor of this little volume is in its assortment of photographs of Jung and of the places and things surrounding his life. A chronology will be of special interest to those readers with more than a passing interest in the history of psychology and psychiatry.