Personality Types and Team Dynamics

This course offers knowledge and practical experience related to group dynamics and teamwork in the organizational context. Course content draws from a large body of group dynamics research in psychology, applied social science, and management. The modern professional team environment emphasizes the value of diversity and the strengths of its members. More than ever, today's leaders must gain insight into individual differences in order to maximize talents, reframe potential sources of misunderstanding, and facilitate collaboration. This course offers knowledge and practical experience related to processes and issues that teams face: team development, social dilemma, communication, conflict, power, decision-making, leadership, problem solving, creativity, diversity, virtual teamwork, culture, reward systems, and training.

This course emphasizes self-discovery and is highly interactive. In addition to providing academic content, the aim of this course is to facilitate student's self-awareness and self-reflexivity. Several personality or personal style assessments will be administered during the course, each of which contains only positive or neutral concepts and language. Students will be equipped as practitioners of Psychological Type Theory, one of the most widely used frameworks for personality assessment and team development in the business world today. Students synthesize course content in a final service-learning group project in the community.

Corvinus University of Budapest awards credits based on the ECTS system (2 ECTS credits equals 1 U.S. credit therefore, 6 ECTS credits is equivalent to 3 U.S. credits). At Corvinus University of Budapest, all classes meet for a minimum of 180 minutes per week. Contact hours are calculated through a combination of lecture hours and outside activities which can include (workshops, seminars, fieldwork activities, guest lectures, and independent work) therefore, contact hours may vary on syllabi.