Section 'A' Data Analysis 

Section 'A' was designed to gather information on each participant's view of their own personality traits by applying an extremely simplified form of a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® questionnaire as a test of the validity of the data collected in Section 'B'. As such, the results were measured against the fact that a significant majority of managers across a wide a variety of cultures and types of organizations are found to exhibit Thinking (T) and Judgment (J) factors (Kirby, 1997). Figure 1 presents the dominant factors found in the private sector participants and the corresponding values found in the public sector participants. The key test of validity was met and supported in that a significant majority of all survey participants viewed themselves as Thinking (T) and Judging (J). In fact, the profiles developed by this simple survey are quite similar for both sectors with the Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging (INTJ) private sector manager differing with the majority of the public sector participants only in their view of themselves as more Sensing (S) than Intuitive (N), giving the public sector manager an ISTJ profile. No further analysis of the Section 'A' data was attempted as (1) the researcher is not qualified nor licensed to perform a thorough MBTI analysis, (2) the instrument used in this survey was extremely simple and (3) further analysis was not germane to the primary research question.

Figure 1.

Complete results of the Section 'A' portion of the survey are presented in Appendix C.