PERSONALITY AND WORK PERFORMANCE - MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR CORRELATES OF MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE IN 2 CULTURES

Chinese and European middle and senior management of an Asian based international airline completes the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) which was correlated with reliable, behavioural measures of performance management. Performance managerial practices included customer focus, decision making, team work, communication as well as the overall score and a rating of future potential. Over 340 European and Chinese managers completed the MBTI, and their direct reporting superior (and his/her superior) rated their manager on his/her management performance over the previous Year. The performance test data was correlated with four dimensions arising from the MBTI-separately for the European expatriate and Chinese. Fewer correlations than may be expected by chance arose from the correlational and regressional analysis. These results are discussed in terms of recent literature in this field.