May 05, 2025

Skills Inventory Survey

Directions:This is a voluntary and confidential survey. Your name is not recorded and you can quit the survey at any time.

The Style Inventory survey instrument (provided by Peter G. Northouse, 2010, pp. 65-66) can be used to create a management skills profile. Read each item carefully and decide the extent to which the item describes you. Indicate your response to each item by circling one of the five numbers to the right of each item. The results clarify a person's natural tendencies toward various management skills. There are no right or wrong answers'so be honest. The results will be provided to you once you finish and submit the survey.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Bahaudin Mujtaba
mujtaba@nova.edu
954.262.5045
1.800.672.7223 ext.25045


Age

17 to 25 26 to 30 31 to 40 41 and above

Gender

Male Female

Ethnicity

White Black Asian Hispanic Other 

Years of work experience

None 1 to 5 years 6 to 10 years 11 or more years

Years of management experience

None 1 to 5 years 6 to 10 years 11 or more years

Years of government work experience

None 1 to 5 years 6 to 10 years 11 or more years

Religion

Buddhist Muslim Christian Agnostic Other  

Country of Birth


Education Status

Earned a high school degree or less,
Bachelors degree or working on earning it,
Masters degree or working on earning it,
Doctorate degree or working on earning it

Table 1 - Skills Inventory

  1. Not true
  2. Seldom true
  3. Occasionally true
  4. Somewhat true
  5. Very true
Questions
1 2 3 4 5
1. I enjoy getting into details of how things work.
2. As a rule, adapting ideas to people's needs is relatively easy for me.
3. I enjoy working with abstract ideas.
4. Technical things fascinate me.
5. Being able to understand others is the most important part of my work.
6. Seeing the "big picture" comes easy to me.
7. One of my skills is being good at making things work.
8. My main concern is to have a supportive communication climate.
9. I am intrigued by complex organizational problems.
10. Following directions and filling out forms comes easily to me.
11. Understanding the social fabric of the organization is important to me.
12. I would enjoy working out strategies for my organization's growth.
13. I am good at completing the things I've been assigned to do.
14. Getting all parties to work together is a challenge I enjoy.
15. Creating a mission statement is rewarding work.
16. I understand how to do the basic things required of me.
17. I am concerned with how my decisions affect the lives of others.
18. Thinking about organizational values and philosophy appeals to me.