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Abstract

By the mid-1950s, she had persuaded more than 45 medical schools to use it for admissions and clients such as General Electric, Standard Oil and Bell Laboratories to inform recruitment and promotion decisions. [...]because it produces profiles that are always positive, it proves perenially palatable to consumers. [...]as Emre explains, the MBTI also emerged as the perfect device for the creation of "The Organization Man", as heralded by William H. Whyte in his 1956 best-selling text of the same name.

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Title
Self-made creators of Myers–Briggs
Author
Haslam, S Alexander
Pages
176
Section
COMMENT BOOKS & ARTS
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Sep 13, 2018
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
ISSN
00280836
e-ISSN
14764687
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2116833786
Copyright
Copyright Nature Publishing Group Sep 13, 2018