Personality in work organizations

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?