The personality (dispositional) characteristics, attitudes, beliefs, and orientation of 498 managers and military officers toward performance appraisal and organization were collected in order to examine their structural relationships to raters' behavior, in terms of (a) mean appraisal ratings, (b) measures of performance dimensions discrimination, and (c) rate discrimination. A mapping sentenc...

Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development is developing a 3-D agent-based crowd simulation tool for collaboration amongst designers, engineers and operations managers. The autonomous agents in our tool model the realistic behaviors of theme park guests with non-goal driven decision-making, and dynamic queuing, crowding, and grouping behaviors. Agents are based on the same universal logi...

W investigate whether partners in a brand alliance should be similar or dissimilar in brand image to foster favorable perceptions of brand fit. Using a Bayesian nonlinear structural equation model and evaluations of 1,200 brand alliances, we find that the conceptual coherence in brand personality profiles predicts attitudes towards a brand alliance. More specifically, we find that similarity in...

As computer usage has proliferated, so has user frustration. Even devoted and knowledgeable users encounter annoying delays, incomprehensible messages, incompatible files, and indecipherable menus. The frustration generated by these problems can be personally disturbing and socially disruptive. Psychological and social perspectives on frustration may clarify the relationships among variables su...

Logic has been empirically shown to only be a part of what is normally considered intelligence. Other dimensions of behavior have been demonstrated to impact an entity’s ability to “intelligently” deal with the world. Several management science and information science researchers have looked specifically at how the classic personality theory could be used to explain total system performance. Go...

It has been repeatedly hypothesized that job characteristics are related to changes in personality in humans, but often personality models still omit effects of life experience. Demonstrating reciprocal relationships between personality and work remains a challenge though, as in humans, many other influential factors may interfere. This study investigates this relationship by comparing the emot...

The concept of brand personality plays a crucial role in literature as consumers tend to anthropomorphize brands by attributing human characteristics them. creation that resonates with leads greater customer satisfaction and loyalty over the long term. This study investigates mediating potential dimensions, specifically Competence Sophistication, relationship between communication (both control...

This article offers a novel approach for managers to increase creativity in their teams by measuring individual personality characteristics crucial for creative people. We assess inter-personal interaction with sensor-equipped badges worn on the body. In a research project with 22 study subjects, who wore the badges during work for one month, we were able to predict extroversion, neuroticism, o...

BACKGROUND Forest firefighters are faced with multiple physical and psychological challenges as a result of their duties. Little is known about the determinants of injury among these workers. The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Aviation, Forest Fire and Emergency Services (AFFES) records detailed information on two mutually exclusive types of workplace injury: First aid (self-repor...