Personality in work organizations
By: Lawrence R. James, Michelle D. Mazerolle.
Contributors: Mazerolle, Michelle D.
Series: Foundations for organizational science
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Psychology, Industrial; Personality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: role of personality in organizations.; title: John's description of his supervisor -- -- The; title: view of John's coworkers --; title: Use of personality and social cognition to explain individual differences in framing and analysis --; title: Justification mechanisms for aggression --; title: Socially adaptive individuals --; title: Conditional reasoning --; title: General comment : personality in organizations --; title: Organization of this book --; title: Fundamental concepts of personality.; title: Traits : the behavioral indicators of personality -- -- The; title: trait of achievement motivation --; title: Characteristics of traits -- -- The; title: trait of fear of failure -- -- A; title: caveat of multiple causation --; title: Causes of traits : needs (motives) -- -- The; title: need to achieve -- -- The; title: need to avoid failure --; title: Resultant achievement-oriented tendency and relative motive strength --; title: How do needs influence traits? -- -- The; title: mediating role of social cognition in need-trait relationships --; title: Conditional reasoning as a product of justification mechanisms -- -- The; title: five themes of the social cognitive approach : a further attempt to integrate the trait and social cognition approaches --; title: Developmental and self-regulatory processes for AMs --; title: Environmental influences on motivation : the person-by-situation interaction and person-environment fit --; title: Cross-situational consistency, situational specificity, and coherence --; title: Personality variables.; title: Prominent traits in contemporary personality -- -- The; title: etiology of "trait" --; title: Allport and the idiographic versus nomothetic approach to traits -- -- The; title: organization of traits --; title: Broad categories of the social cognitions that are used to justify characteristic behavioral adjustments --; title: Types of implicit biases that give rise to justification mechanisms --; title: How JMs influence reasoning strategies --; title: Implicit biases : wanted or unwanted -- -- The; title: measurement of personality in organizational settings.; title: Criteria for evaluating measurement procedures --; title: Reliability --; title: Validity --; title: Exemplars of measurement techniques for personality --; title: Self-report measures --; title: Projective techniques --; title: Conditional reasoning measures -- -- An; title: efficient, indirect system for measuring implicit reasoning biases --; title: Justification mechanisms --; title: Use of discretionary judgments of logical persuasiveness to make inferences about JMs --; title: Conditional reasoning test for aggression --; title: Model for empirical validation analyses --; title: Psychometric evaluation of conditional reasoning test for aggression --; title: Estimates of reliability --; title: Results of eight empirical validation studies --; title: Three fertile domains for future personality research in organizations --; title: Integrative models of personality assessment --; title: Channeling hypothesis --; title: Integrative model --; title: Integrative models based on self-reports and conditional reasoning -- Integrative model of assessment for aggression --; title: Test of the integrative model for aggression --; title: Integrative model of assessment for achievement motivation --; title: Measurement of relative motive strength via conditional reasoning --; title: Tests of the integrative model of achievement motivation --; title: General comments regarding integrative models --; title: Coherence --; title: Situational discriminativeness in organizational research --; title: In search of coherence --; title: Differential framing --; title: Does job satisfaction have dispositional components?