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Personality in work organizations
Title:
Personality in work organizations
Author:
James, Lawrence R.
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Publication Information:
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [2002]

©2002
Physical Description:
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
The role of personality in organizations. John's description of his supervisor -- The view of John's coworkers -- Use of personality and social cognition to explain individual differences in framing and analysis -- Justification mechanisms for aggression -- Socially adaptive individuals -- Conditional reasoning -- General comment : personality in organizations -- Organization of this book -- Fundamental concepts of personality. Traits : the behavioral indicators of personality -- The trait of achievement motivation -- Characteristics of traits -- The trait of fear of failure -- A caveat of multiple causation -- Causes of traits : needs (motives) -- The need to achieve -- The need to avoid failure -- Resultant achievement-oriented tendency and relative motive strength -- How do needs influence traits? -- The mediating role of social cognition in need-trait relationships -- Conditional reasoning as a product of justification mechanisms -- The five themes of the social cognitive approach : a further attempt to integrate the trait and social cognition approaches -- Developmental and self-regulatory processes for AMs -- Environmental influences on motivation : the person-by-situation interaction and person-environment fit -- Cross-situational consistency, situational specificity, and coherence -- Personality variables. Prominent traits in contemporary personality -- The etiology of "trait" -- Allport and the idiographic versus nomothetic approach to traits -- The organization of traits -- Broad categories of the social cognitions that are used to justify characteristic behavioral adjustments -- Types of implicit biases that give rise to justification mechanisms -- How JMs influence reasoning strategies -- Implicit biases : wanted or unwanted -- The measurement of personality in organizational settings. Criteria for evaluating measurement procedures -- Reliability -- Validity -- Exemplars of measurement techniques for personality -- Self-report measures -- Projective techniques -- Conditional reasoning measures -- An efficient, indirect system for measuring implicit reasoning biases -- Justification mechanisms -- Use of discretionary judgments of logical persuasiveness to make inferences about JMs -- Conditional reasoning test for aggression -- Model for empirical validation analyses -- Psychometric evaluation of conditional reasoning test for aggression -- Estimates of reliability -- Results of eight empirical validation studies -- Three fertile domains for future personality research in organizations -- Integrative models of personality assessment -- Channeling hypothesis -- Integrative model -- Integrative models based on self-reports and conditional reasoning -- Integrative model of assessment for aggression -- Test of the integrative model for aggression -- Integrative model of assessment for achievement motivation -- Measurement of relative motive strength via conditional reasoning -- Tests of the integrative model of achievement motivation -- General comments regarding integrative models -- Coherence -- Situational discriminativeness in organizational research -- In search of coherence -- Differential framing -- Does job satisfaction have dispositional components?
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Electronic Access:
Table of Contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001005871.html
ISBN:
9780761902959

9780761902966
Format :
Book