ABSTRACT
The complexity of organisations and stakeholder relationships can create a lot of pressure and stress. Neglected type functions can add to the sources of potential difficulties in working relationships. According to Carl G. Jung's psychological type theory, we have a hierarchy or order of function preferences. Jung saw the dominant function preference operating in the realm of the conscious mind, so mostly under our control. The secondary, tertiary and inferior he viewed as semi-unconscious or unconscious functions that may be neglected, particularly the latter two. Jung believed that the neglected functions will make themselves known eventually. Defensive behaviours can be more enduring patterns of normal behaviour that reduce our flexibility in different situations. Although Robert Hogan's work is about overdone strengths under pressure and stress, the research and ideas behind the Hogan Development Survey (HDS) dimensions are about deeper patterns of neurotic behaviour, on a continuum with the DSM IV-TR personality disorders.
