Measuring Personality

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Measuring Personality

• Self report measures
• Most common measure
• Accuracy?
• Observer-rating surveys
• Independent measure
• Better predictor of success on the job

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• 3. Projective measures
• Rorschach Inkblot
• State what inkblot resemble
• Thematic Apperception Test
• Story about each picture
• Assessing/scoring difficult

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7 Major Personality Attributes influencing OB

• Core self-evaluation
• Machiavellianism
• Narcissism
• Self-monitoring
• Propensity for risk taking
• Type a personality
• Proactive personalities

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Core self-evaluation

• Self-perspective concept of core self-evaluation
• Pos () core self-evaluation
• like themselves
• see themselves as effective capable
• in control of their situation
• Neg (-) core self-evaluation
• dislike themselves
• question their capabilities
• view themselves as powerless

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Core self-evaluation determined by

• Self-esteem o of liking/disliking self,
  oworthy or unworthy
• High like themselves see self as valuable
• Low susceptible to external influences rely on
  pos() evaluation from others
• Locus of control o master of their own fate
• Internals- control what happens to them
• Externals- control by outside factors, luck
  chance

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• How is core self-evaluation related to
• Job satisfaction?
• Job performance?

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Machiavellianism

• Noccolo Machiavelli 16th century
• High Macheavellianism pragmatic, maintains
  emotional distance, ends justify means,
  manipulative, win more, persuaded less
• Their outcomes moderated by situational factors
• They flourish
• Interact face to face
• Minimum number of rules
• Less emotional involvement
• Do high Machs make good employees?

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Narcissism

• Grandiose sense of self-importance
• Requires excessive admiration
• Sense of entitlement
• Arrogant
• Rated worse leaders
• Selfish exploitive
• Less effective at work

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Self-monitoring

• Ability to adjust behaviour to external,
  situational factors
• SM
• Considerably more adaptable
• Behave differently to situations
• Can separate public private selves
• Receive better performance ratings
• SM
• True dispositions attitudes in every situation
• High behavioral consistency btw who they are
  what they do

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Propensity for risk taking

• Willingness to take chances
• Impact on how long it takes managers to make a
  decision
• Sig. to align risk-taking propensity with
  specific job demands

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Type A Personality

• Aggressively involved in a chronic, incessant
  struggle to achieve more more in less time,
  against opposing efforts of other things or
  people
• Always moving, walking, eating rapidly
• Feel impatient at rate events take place
• Strive to think/do 2/more at once
• Cannot cope with leisure
• Obsessed measuring success
• Operate under moderate to high stress levels

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Type B Personality

• Exactly opposite
• Never suffer a sense of urgency
• No need to display achievements
• Play for fun relaxation
• Relax without guilt
• Differ in their ability to get hired?

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Proactive Personalities

• Identify opportunities
• Show initiative
• Persevere until change occurs
• Seen as leaders and change agents
• Have entrepreneurial initiative