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The dark side of leadership: How bad leaders can destroy organizations and undermine their followers

Leadership in organizations can often be dark and destructive. Utilizing a so-called trait approach is particularly helpful in understanding destructive leaders. Such leaders share common personality traits, notably including narcissism, hubris and Machiavellianism.

Drawing on recent research and science we examine the dark side of leadership.
Dr. Annette Towler, 06.02.2021
Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, Personality, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, Trait based leadership, Dark traits

Machiavellianism: What it is, how to recognize and cope with Machiavellians

Machiavellians are common in all kinds of settings. In this CQ Dossier you will learn how Machiavellianism works and what can be done to cope with it.
What is Machiavellianism and how to cope with it?
Dr. Annette Towler, 31.12.2020
Dark traits, Machiavellianism, Personality

Personality strengths and weaknesses: What they are and how they impact your performance, life outcomes, and mental health

In this CQ Dossier we provide you with the foundation of personality strengths and weaknesses, and how to identify and use them in practice as means for professional development.
Personality strengths and weaknesses are an important management tool for professional development
Dr. Markus Nini, 19.08.2020
Personality, Personality test, NEO Personality Inventory

Why taking a personality test helps your professional development

Taking a high-quality personality test can have a range of benefits for your professional development. It helps you to prepare for your next job interview, provides you the necessary insights to make the right career choice and is the basis to develop your leadership skills to the next level. In this blog post we have a look at the facts why knowing your personality strengths and weaknesses helps your personality development.
High-quality personality tests can be a good investment for professional development
Total votes: 4787
Dr. Annette Towler, 05.04.2020 | Posted in Career Management 0 comment
NEO Personality Inventory, Personality, Personality test, Professional development

How to select the right personality test and use it to for professional development

There is a lot of information available on the web about the concept of personality, personality tests and personality development. This is not a big surprise considering the role personality plays in our lives and the size of the market associated with services related to personality testing and development. However, most of the things you will find on the web do not really live up to their promises and end up doing more harm than good. This is why we decided to put together this guideline to shed some light on what personality is and why personality development truly matters for every professional.
We show you how to select the right personality test and use it to boost your professional development
Total votes: 5270
Dr. Markus Nini, 25.02.2020 | Posted in Learning & Development 0 comment
Five Factor Model (FFM), Personality, Personality test, Professional development

Job performance: Why task and contextual performance matter from an Evidence-based Management perspective

Job performance (sometimes also called work performance) is a widely used tool in management, however organizations rarely address what it really is, which dimensions it includes, and in which areas of work it becomes important.
This CQ Dossiers addresses job performance from an evidence-based management point of view.
Dr. Markus Nini, 30.12.2019
Job performance, Contextual performance, Personality, Employee selection

Utilizing the science of personality in Evidence-Based Management

When we speak informally about an individual’s personality, we may be referring to any number of qualities, from their temperament to their sense of humor, even the kind of media they like. However, in the social sciences, the study of personality focuses on enduring, reliable traits about a person that can be measured, and which are useful in predicting behavior (Saucier & Srivastra, 2015). The leading perspective on personality within the social sciences is the Five Factor Model, or the “Big Five”, which describes individuals in terms of their openness to experience, conscientiousness, agreeability, extroversion, and neuroticism.
Total votes: 9204
Dr. Devon Price, 19.10.2019 | Posted in Leadership, Methodologies & Tools, Research 0 comment
Behavioral complexity, Dark traits, Five Factor Model (FFM), Job performance, Motivation, Personality

A trait-based approach to leadership: Are leaders born or made?

This CQ Dossier discusses the trait-based approach to leadership and reviews those personality traits that distinguish effective from ineffective leaders. The dossier also identifies key skills or competencies that are related to leader effectiveness and can be used by organizations for selection, promotion, and training.
Trait based approaches define skills associated with effective leadership
Dr. Annette Towler, 24.08.2019
Evidence-based Leadership, Leadership, Trait based leadership, Personality, Five Factor Model (FFM)

Challenging Myths about Selection and Recruitment. Which selection methods do really make a difference?

Many organizations use selection methods that are not valid based on myths surrounding selection and recruitment. This CQ Dossier describes and challenges those myths and provides an overview of different selection approaches and their effectiveness to predict job performance.
Proper selection methods support organizations to hire top talent and gain a competitive advantage
Dr. Annette Towler, 17.04.2019
Evidence-based HR, Employee selection, Cognitive ability, Personality

The effects of personality and emotions on workplace communication

Research on communication in the workplace has revealed that personality traits such as assertiveness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extroversion tend to increase the chance that someone will communicate at work.
The Effects of Personality and Emotions on Workplace Communication
Aaron G., 26.01.2019
Personality, Five Factor Model (FFM), Workplace communication

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