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Ch 3 Personality and Abilities

• Part 1 Jan 30, 2007

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Personality

• Unique and stable pattern of behaviors, thoughts,
  emotions
• Interactionist approach behavior result of
  personality and situation
• When does it have the most influence?
• How is personality measured?
• Objective
• Projective

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Controversy Personality in Selection

• 3 points historically, conventional wisdom in
  psych was that personality measures
• 1)
• 2)
• 3)
• What is the current view of personality in the
  I/O literature?

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Reliability/Validity

• Reliability issues do we consistently get same
  assessment of personality?
• Validity is it accurate/predictive?
• Example of reliability assessment
• 2 Examples of validity assessment

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Taxonomies

• Terminological confusion abounds!
• 1 answer is Big 5 model
• Many researchers agree most measures assess at
  least the Big 5
• Check to make sure you assess these 5 reliably,
  validly
• Anything extra is optional
• Accepted Big 5 measure is NEO

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Big 5 Model

• 5 key dimensions of personality (know def of
  each)
• Openness to Experience
• Conscientiousness
• Extraversion
• Agreeableness
• Neuroticism (or its opposite, positively-termed
  emotional stability)

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Big 5 Model

• Dimensions are reliable cross-culturally
• How is it used?

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Does personality predict job performance?

• As recently as 90, most said no
• Barrick Mount (1991)
• What did this study suggest?
• Later studies found C A predict job perf about
  as well as what other construct?
• (correlation range?)

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Cont..

• Conscientiousness most highly related to job
  performance (of the Big 5 dimensions)
• related to ?
• But jobs where this isnt good? And why?

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How stable is personality?

• Impressive evidence from longitudinal studies
• 1955 v. 1995 sample
• Creativity assessed in college correlated w/job
  creativity 30 yrs later

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Faking personality scores

• Hogan Hoganpublish the HPI
• Some items are transparent easy to fake, is
  this a problem?
• How can methodology be used to assess faking?
• How do corrections for faking affect validity?
• Their conclusion?

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Levin Zickar (2002) Self-presentation, lies,
and bullshit

• What is their issue with the Hogans conclusions?
• Levin Zickar distinguish betw selective
  presentation lying
• Field studies compared those instructed to fake
  w/those instructed to be honest
• What did they find?

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Other Personality Constructs

• Positive/Negative Affectivity (PA/NA) stable
  mood
• Strong relationship with job satisfaction
• Is there such a construct as group affect?
• Self-monitoring what is it?
• how is it linked w/leadership?

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(cont.)

• Self-efficacy beliefs about your abilities to
  perform tasks
• How does it develop? 2 sources
• What is it related to?
• Machiavellianism manipulate others to get ahead