Posts Tagged ‘personality’
A Leader’s Style Can Be Helpful For Some But Exhausting For Others
For most employees, goal-focused behavior on the part of the leader is helpful. Goal-focused leaders provide specific goals and task structure to match those goals, make suggestions on how to achieve goals, and follow-up to ensure goals are achieved. New research published in the Journal of Applied Psychology provides more support for the idea that [...]
More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality
It’s not often that we see a well designed study that tries to explain how a leader’s personality affects the performance of a company. As I reported here previously, there is very credible evidence that a narcissistic leader will take a company on a wild ride that won’t result in any better or worse performance. [...]
The Downside of Too Much Personality
The “Big Five” factors of personality are broad dimensions used to describe human personality. The factors are openness, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability. In a number of research studies, across a wide variety of job types, conscientiousness has been the best of the Big Five at consistently predicting job performance. A meta-analysis on emotional [...]
Five Evidence-Based Outcomes Of Both The Bright-Side And The Dark-Side Of A Leader’s Personality
Last week I wrote an article entitled “Seven Things To Expect From Your Narcissistic Employee” that looked at how to deal with employees that are overly self-absorbed, arrogant, manipulative, and believe they are entitled to lead others. But that article did not address what to expect from a leader with a narcissistic personality. Once again, [...]
Seven Things to Expect From Your Narcissistic Employee
The narcissistic personality trait describes individuals that believe they are special, have a sense of entitlement, require excessive admiration, lack empathy, are interpersonally exploitive, and are arrogant and haughty. As defined by one of its most frequently used measures, the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI, Raskin & Hall, 1981), there are four dimensions to the narcissistic [...]
