Intrapreneurs - trait-related similiarities and differences compared with other employees and entrepreneursAbstract. In study I trait characteristics of 44 intrapreneurs, 73 qualified employees, and 42 entrepreneurs were measured and compared. The ...
Development of a questionnaire to measure personal responsibility or: ”Don’t talk about it, just do it”Abstract. Personal responsibility is an important concept in society. There are several reasons why high personal responsibility is desirable in the ...
Zusammenfassung. Verschiedene Befunde weisen darauf hin, dass Mobbing-Betroffene sich in verschiedenen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen und allgemeinen Stressverarbeitungsstrategien von Nicht-Betroffenen zu unterscheiden scheinen. In der vorliegenden Studie wurde ...
Abstract. Team personality has received much attention as organizations increasingly organize work around teams. Yet the concept of team personality in the current literature has not been well developed; typically it is considered as an extrapolation of ...
Abstract. Four studies investigating labor market influences on personality scale scores of job applicants are presented. The first three studies examined whether or not job applicants from internal vs. external labor markets scored similarly on multi-...
Abstract. The relationship between personality and salary was investigated among 4,150 managers. Individuals at five different managerial levels completed a measure of the Big Five personality dimensions as part of a work-related psychological assessment. ...
”Personality at Work” in Lüneburg - Retrospect and prospectsAbstract. This article provides a retrospective summary of a special guest edited series of articles published in Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie from 2006 to 2008 on personality at work. ...
Personality and networking: An analysis based on the interpersonal circumplexAbstract. While several studies have shown that networking, defined as building, maintaining, and using professional contacts, has a positive effect on career success, only a ...
Age-related trait-differences: Significance for reemployment of older adultsAbstract. The present study investigated a total of seven cognitive and seven non-cognitive abilities regarding age-related mean differences. Therefore, a group of unemployed ...
In this study we assessed whether the predictive validity of personality scores is stronger when respondent test-taking motivation (TTM) is higher rather than lower. Results from a field sample comprising 269 employees provided evidence for this ...
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of imposing a time constraint on respondents completing the Big Five personality Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999) based on a self-regulatory model of response distortion. A completely crossed ...
The affective-motivational state of job engagement has been shown to differ between jobs with different characteristics, but its possible links with workers’ personal attributes have rarely been studied. Engagement was predicted to be a primary function ...
While counterproductive work behaviors (CWB) are considered to be associated with both personal and situational antecedents, the relationship between these two factors is not entirely understood. Toward a better understanding of this issue, the present ...
Abstract. Applicant fairness perceptions of asynchronous job interviews were assessed among panelists (Study 1, N = 160) and highly educated actual applicants (Study 2, N = 103). Furthermore, we also examined whether personality explained applicants’ ...
Abstract. Forced choice (FC) personality questionnaires attempt to constrain job applicants from presenting idealized responses (or “faking”). FC questionnaires are designed by identifying items equally desirable in applicants, matching these into “blocks,...
Abstract. Honesty-Humility is a valuable predictor in personnel selection; however, problems with self-report measures create a need for new tools to judge this trait. Therefore, this research examines the interview as an alternative ...