Correlating students' personality types with their rating of topics covered in business communication classes

Business Communication Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 46-52

  McPherson, Bill ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Course topics; MBTI; Personality type

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844491753     PISSN: 10805699     EISSN: 15524191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/108056999906200305     Document Type: Article

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