The Application of Personality Assessment to Suggest Appropriate Employment in Various Fields Within Economic Development

<p>Personality assessment has been established through previous literature as a viable tool in organizational contexts in different job fields (Hough & Dilchert, 2010; Rothstein & Goffin, 2006). The field of economic development has seen little application of personality assessment to aspiring professionals within the discipline. This research hoped to establish distinct personality typologies within economic development by bifurcating the field into two sectors of (a) business recruitment, retention, and expansion and (b) entrepreneurship developers and community developers. Participants were asked to complete the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (Thompson, 1996) after distinguishing within which of the two realms they were employed. Results show no significant difference on any of the four Jungian personality preferences between groups indicating false inferences that the two groups maintain different personalities. Future researchers should consider evaluating economic developers as one entity rather than differentiating sectors.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science (MS)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economic and Workforce Development

Year dc:date.available

2011

Author dc:creator

• Plaisance, Brittani Elizabeth

Contributors dc:contributor

• Chad Miller
• Brent Hales
• Brian Richard

• personaliity assessment
• employment
• economic development
• Behavioral Economics
• Growth and Development

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/214

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1239