Changing Your Management Style: How to Evaluate and Improve Your Own Performance

Identifying sixteen personality types and fifteen workplace motivators that define a manager's style, an introspective approach shows managers how to overcome weaknesses and become more assertive, sensitive, communicative, and generally more effective.

Much management literature has been devoted to change and its effect on organizations and the individuals within them, but little has been said about the need for managers to adapt their individual management styles to those changes. In Understanding Your Management Style (1991), Benfari laid the groundwork for changing one's management style. He notes now that identifying and understanding one's style is the first step toward change. Next, one must look for strengths and weaknesses and discover which aspects of one's style are successful and in what situations. Benfari, an organizational psychologist, synthesizes various views on behavior modification to offer techniques that lead to more consistent positive results. Along the way he provides a battery of diagnostic tests that identify 16 personality types and 15 workplace motivators to aid in assessment of self and organization. David Rouse