One of the causes of stress at work is a having a difference in preference for Judgment or Perception with your boss. This is because the two types tend to have a different orientation toward deadlines. Whether you meet a deadline is nothing to do with your personality type – the J/P difference is concerned with how you meet the deadline.
Tag Archives: Type Differences
Type Dynamics and Relationships
Personality type theory can help understand some of the causes of conflict in a relationship. But there is much more to it than simply having different preferences. Conflict can also be caused by type dynamics. This describes how the preferences relate to each other inside the individual, and how they relate to the context.
Extravert and Introvert conflict
Conflict in the workplace has many sources. One of them is when colleagues have different personality type preferences. For example, extraverts like to develop ideas out loud. Introverts prefer to think them through. This video looks at the implications of those
Both approaches can work well on their own, but they can cause conflict when used together – that is, if we assume other people think like us (and that is a very common assumption):
