Personality and the Fate of Organizations [Paperback]

Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations, author Robert Hogan offers a systematic account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand organizations and to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, and train people.
 
This book brings insights from a leading industrial organizational psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and that it determines the careers of individuals and the fate of organizations. The author’s goal is to increase the reader’s ability to understand other people—how they are alike, how they are different, and why they do what they do. Armed with this understanding, readers will be able to pursue their personal, social, and organizational goals more efficiently.
 
A practical reference, this text is extremely useful for MBA students and for all those studying organizational psychology and leadership.Contents: Preface. What Is Personality Psychology: Defining the Key Issues and Concepts. The Personality Wars: A Brief History of Modern Personality Psychology. Who Shall Rule: Leadership and Personality. Lives in Public: Personality and Team Performance. The Secret Life of Organizations: Personality and Organizational Theory. The Psychology of Managerial Incompetence. How to Fix Incompetence.

While no book can offer a road map out of the fog that many Organizational Behavior researchers have regarding personality, this book does shine considerable light on important topics. There is no doubt it will be considered new and fresh. There are few writers in the organizational sciences--or psychology for thl³9