MBTI personality types of project managers and their success: A field survey

Yuval Cohen, Hana Ornoy, Baruch Keren

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Abstract

This paper describes a survey of 280 project managers that reveals both their personality types (via Myers-Briggs personality inventory) and their success in project management. The results show that a project manager's personality is better suited for functioning with partial data and under ambiguity than the rest of the population. These traits were found for both women and men. The conclusion is that project managers (females and males) have a unique personality-type distribution that distinguishes them from the general population. The findings can contribute to better understanding the traits that characterize the project management population, and their relationship to project success.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)78-87
Number of pages10
JournalProject Management Journal
Volume44
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2013

Keywords

  • MBTI
  • Myers-Briggs
  • key success factors
  • personality
  • personality types
  • project management

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