Personality and Work: Reconsidering the Role of Personality in Organizations

The subject of personality has received increasing attention from industrial/organizational psychologists in both research and practice settings over the past decade. But while there is an overabundance of information related to the narrow area of personality testing and employee selection, there has been no definitive source offering a broader perspective on the overall topic of personality in the workplace. Personality and Work at last provides an in-depth examination of the role of personality in work behavior. An array of expert authors discusses the connection of personality to a wide range of outcomes beyond performance, including counterproductive behaviors, contextual performance, retaliatory behaviors, retention, learning, knowledge creation, and the process of sharing that knowledge. Throughout the book, the authors present theoretical perspectives, introduce new models and frameworks, and integrate and synthesize prior studies in ways that will stimulate future research and practice.

Contributors to this volume include: Murray R. Barrick, Michael J. Cullen, David V. Day, Ed Diener, J. Kevin Ford, Lewis R. Goldberg, Leaetta Hough, Jeff W. Johnson, Martin J. Kilduff, Amy Kristof-Brown, Katherine E. Kurek, Richard E. Lucas, Terence R. Mitchell, Michael K. Mount, Frederick L. Oswald, Ann Marie Ryan, Paul R. Sackett, Gerard Saucier, Greg L. Stewart, Howard M. Weiss

Murray R. Barrick is the Stanley M. Howe Leadership Chair at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and the American Psychological Association. The author of numerous scholarly articles and chapters, he also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology.

Ann Marie Ryan is a professor of industrial/organizational psychology at Michigan State University and president of Employee Research Group, a consulting firm. She is president of Division 14 of the American Psychological Association as well as president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.