PERSONALITY & WORK BEHAVIOUR

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PERSONALITY WORK BEHAVIOUR

• the use of personality at work
• expected relationships between personality and
  work behaviour
• approaches to the study of personality at work
• two instruments for selection and team building
• does personality predict work behaviour?

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FURTHER READING

• Barrett, P Hutton, R (2000) Psychometrics and
  Personality Questionnaires Selection
  Development Review 16 (2) pp5-9
• Brown, R (1999) The use of Personality Tests a
  Survey of Usage and Practice in the UK Selection
  Development Review 15 (1) pp3-8
• Furnham, A (1997) The Psychology of Behaviour at
  Work London Psychology Press
• Robertson, ! Baron, H (2000) Conscientiousness
  and Managerial Performance Journal of
  Occupational Organisational Psychology 73 (2)
  pp171-180

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WHO USES WHAT?

• 78 use personality tests
• OPQ, 16PF MBTI are most common
• used for recruitment and development

• most use publishers norms
• most give feedback to clients
• most dont change their reports

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THE SHAPE OF THE RELATIONSHIP

• Positive linear?
• Plateauing?
• Curvilinear?
• Negative linear?

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APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY AT WORK

• classical personality theory
• classical occ psych/OB
• work-specific measures

• concepts of fit and misfit
• longitudinal studies
• case history research

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PROS AND CONS

• Advantages
• numbers
• developmental
• anti-corruption
• comprehensive
• scientific

• Disadvantages
• fakeable
• self-insight
• unreliable
• invalid
• unimportant

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COSTA McCRAES BIG 5

• neuroticism
• extraversion
• openness to experience
• agreeableness
• conscientiousness

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MYERS BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR

• extraversion v introversion
• sensing v intuition
• thinking v feeling
• judging v perceiving

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CATTELLS 16PF

• move from the brightly lit areas
• use of factor analysis
• sixteen primary factors
• five global factors
• links with the big five

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SOME WORRIES

• the theory is wrong
• the measurement is poor
• there are self-report errors
• the dv is not related to the iv
• other things are more important
• the problem of expertise
• the problem of independence