Abstract

SANT'ANNA, Anderson de Souza  and  VOGEL, Luiz Otßvio Salgado. Diversity of psychological types: myth or reality in contemporary organizations?. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2021, n.56, pp. 159-174. ISSN 0100-3437.

Creativity, diversity and innovation are continuously pointed out as central attributes of differentiation and achievement of comparative advantages for organizations in the competitive contemporary business world. This premise has oriented innumerous organizations to the induction of internal processes aimed at greater inclusion of sociological minorities, as well as the development of policies and practices that favor the management of difference and the resulting diversity. In this context, this article aims to investigate a sample of 7,924 professionals appointed by their organizations to participate in executive education programs promoted by renowned Brazilian business schools, which were subjected, in the period from 2010 to 2016, to the MBTI, an instrument developed from Jung's psychological types, to measure individual psychological preferences. The expectation was to verify, throughout the period investigated, a greater diversity of profiles, with increased presence of the psychic function Intuition, as dominant or auxiliary in the psychological types investigated. The results, however, point to a high preponderance of the preferences Thought and Sensation, with the profiles Intuition and Perception, commonly related to creativity and innovation, presenting the lowest incidences throughout the historical series investigated

Keywords : Psychological Types; MBTI; Diversity; Inclusion; Jung.

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