CPP Research Support - Research Grant and Best Paper Awards

CPP, Inc., is pleased to announce its MBTI®  Best Paper Awards program for completed studies demonstrating the efficacy of Psychological Type. The program is designed to support independent quantitative or qualitative research using the MBTI® assessment that focuses on areas of interest to researchers and practitioners alike, and that investigates the effectiveness of applying an understanding of Type, Type Development, and Type Dynamics.

Particular areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Delivery of health care and related services to patients

  • Impact on patient satisfaction

  • Prediction of health outcomes or changes in health status

  • Managing stress

  • Employee or customer retention

  • Team performance

  • Organizational change

  • Problem solving and decision making

  • Sales, productivity, efficiency

  • Leadership development and coaching

  • Intra- and inter-team conflict, development, or coordination

  • Job satisfaction, or other organizationally relevant attitudes

  • Improving interpersonal communication

  • Decision quality and fairness

  • Impact on coworker, supervisor, manager, or executive satisfaction

  • Impact on work or job satisfaction, or other organizationally relevant attitudes

  • Career management

  • Occurrence of conflict

  • Impact on life or career satisfaction

  • Improving organizational performance

 

Best Paper Awards: In 2008, up to three studies completed under the MBTI Research Grant Program will be recognized with cash awards of $1000, $500, and $250 (each amount is divided among the study summary authors). Only those studies completed within the CPP Research Grant Program are eligible for the cash awards. Criteria for determining the Best Paper include clarity of writing and communication, and appropriateness and rigor of analysis. Papers should be in APA style and not exceed 20 pages including tables, figures, and references. Abstracts from the papers will be used by CPP to communicate results with its customers.

Best Paper submissions should be between four and fifteen pages in length. The paper should describe the setting in which the study occurred, the purpose and nature of the intervention, and the impact on participants. The study should be described in qualitative terms or quantitative terms with appropriate statistical analyses. Papers will be judged on the quality of the ???? the ??? of the study to both practitioners and academics, and the quality of the description of the impact, and suggestions for how others can use the approach.

Send one copy of the submission to the address below, along with a letter stating CPP can further publish or disseminate the submissions with credit to the author or authors. An electronic version of the submission will be required after an initial ??

MBTI Best Papers Awards 

CPP Research Department

 4801 Highway 61

 Suite 206

 White Bear Lake, MN 55110

 

Researchers may also want to consider the Isabel Briggs Myers Memorial Research Awards, a separate program being sponsored by the Myers & Briggs Foundation.

 

 

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