This study investigated the relationship between psychological type, as measured by the MyersBriggs Type Indicator® (MBTI; Myers & McCaulley, 1985), and cognitive style as measured by the Kirton Adaption–Innovation Inventory (KAI; Kirton, 1999b). These 2 measures are widely used by creativity researchers and practitioners, yet little is known about the conceptual relationship between the theori...

Over 6000 adult managers attending an assessment centre completed the MBTI and also specified in detail how long it had been before they were promoted to a managerial role, and also, where appropriate, to a senior managerial role. Correlational analyses showed shorter times to promotion were associated with being Extraverted and a Sensing Type. Regressions showed that Feeling types took longer ...

The software industry has continued to grow over the past decade and there is now a need to provide education and hands-on training to students in various phases of software life cycle. Software design is one of the vital phases of the software development cycle. Psychological theories assert that not everybody is fit for all kind of tasks as people have different personality traits and abiliti...

In software development, people have a fundamental role as the basis for a project’s success. Regarding agile methodologies, this factor is increased by the need of self-organized teams, which is related to its member’s personality and the relationships between them. This paper evaluates how the member’s personality types and social relations influence the outcome of Scrum teams, based on MBTI ...

Personalized e-learning implementation is recognized as among one of the most interesting research areas in the distance Web-based education. Since the learning style of each learner is different we must to fit e-learning to the different needs of learners. This paper presents an Adaptive e-learning model based personality learner’s. To recognize the learner’s personality, this system uses the ...