Personality Tests

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Listen Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004 at 1:06 p.m. in Economy, Education, Society

Personality testing is a $400 million dollar industry and its growing. But some are skeptical about the claims of neutrality that accompany these tests. We look at how the promises and limitations of personality tests like the Myers-Briggs indicators, and ask how useful they are in recruiting employees, evaluating workplace interactions, and the like.

Audio archives, transcripts and CDs will be available approximately 15 minutes after the program ends.

Guests

Annie Murphy Paul

author of "The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves (Pub: Free Press)

Hile Rutledge

Managing partner, Otto Kroeger Associates

Nord Brue

Founder and former CEO of Bruegger's Bagel Bakery; Chairman of several boards of various corporations

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