Kilmanns Personality Style Instrument
Published on 21. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
28 pages
978-0-9832742-9-2 (ISBN)
Description
Based on C.G. Jung's 1921 theory of psychological types, four personality styles are examined in an organizational context: Sensation Thinking (ST), Intuition Thinking (NT), Sensation Feeling (SF), and Intuition Feeling (NF). These four personality styles have vastly different preferences and approaches for defining and solving workplace problems. Kilmanns Personality Style Instrument is a self-report assessment that takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete and another five minutes to graph the results: Individuals and groups discover that they tend to approach problems in either (1) a specialized manner (favoring one style of managing problems while ignoring the other three styles) or (2) a generalist manner (giving due attention to how each of the four styles plays an important role in managing complex problems). In either case, individuals and groups learn why different styles are needed for sensing problems, defining problems, deriving solutions, implementing solutions, and then evaluating results.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight
101 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9832742-9-2 (9780983274292)
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Ralph H. Kilmann, Ph.D., is CEO and Senior Consultant at Kilmann Diagnostics (KD) in Newport Coast, California. In this position, he has created as well as produced all of KD's online courses and assessment tools on conflict management, change management, expanding consciousness, and quantum transformation. Ralph's online products are used by such high-profile organizations as Amazon, Bank of America, DuPont, Exxon Mobil, FedEx, GE, Google, Harvard University, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, NASA, Siemens, Twitter, the U.S. Army, and the World Health Organization. Ralph earned both his B.S. in graphic arts management and M.S. in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University in 1970, and a Ph.D. degree in the behavioral sciences in management and social systems design from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1972. After Ralph left UCLA, he immediately began his professional career as an Assistant Professor at the Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. In 1991, the faculty awarded him the George H. Love Professorship of Organization and Management, which he held until 2002, when he moved to the West Coast, which eventually led to the creation of Kilmann Diagnostics. Ralph is an internationally recognized authority on systems change. He has consulted for numerous corporations throughout the United States and Europe, including AT&T, IBM, Ford, General Electric, Lockheed, Olivetti, Philips, TRW, and Xerox. He has also consulted for numerous health-care, financial, and government organizations, including the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the Office of the U.S. President. Ralph has published more than twenty books and one hundred articles on such subjects as conflict management, organizational design, problem management, change management, and quantum organizations. Ralph is also the coauthor of more than ten assessment tools, including the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI), the Kilmann-Saxton Culture-Gap® Survey, and the Kilmann Organizational Conflict Instrument (KOCI). Since 1985, Ralph's professional biography has been profiled in Who's Who in the World. And then, in 2017, Marquis Who's Who distinguished him as a "Lifetime Achiever" and featured his profile in Sciences.