Research has established a number of personality features and behaviours associated with business creation and success. The similarities between these traits and narcissism, a concept with roots in clinical psychology and psychiatry, led the authors to conduct this study, which proposes to measure whether entrepreneurs score higher on a narcissism scale than other vocational groups. The second ...

Purpose This study examines the role of personality attributions in understanding the relationships between nonverbal cues and interview performance ratings. Design/methodology/approach A structured behavioral interview was developed for identifying management potential in a large, national company. Using a concurrent design to validate the interview, managers were interviewed and the interview...

Bu çal??mada yönetici konumunda çal??an ki?ilerin, ki?ilik özelliklerinin i? performans? ve doyumu üzerindeki etkisinin incelenmesi amaçlanm??t?r. Çal??ma beklentisi gruplar?n?n yordanmas?nda farkl? ölçümlerinin olaca??d?r. Belirlenecek ise psikolojik örgütsel i?leyi? aç?s?ndan farkl?l?k gösterece?i dü?ünülmektedir. Çal??maya, en az 10 ast? bulunan üç y?l süreyle bir kurulu?ta 269 al?nm??t?r. ?...

While an acute, continuous focus on customer needs is often cited as a key benefit of agile approaches, very little research has examined the customer focus construct in an agile project environment, or looked at the implications or recommendations for project managers. We draw on contemporary theories on customer focus to develop a framework for understanding customer focus in an agile project...

Previous research has linked personality traits, material values, and money management to savings, debt, and compulsive buying. To extend previous research, four online surveys examined the Big Five personality traits and material values of those who manage their money and determined the independent effects of money management on wealth, debt, and compulsive buying. Results suggest that (a) ind...

The authors substantiated that the success of developing students’ introspectiveness is ensured by created psychological and pedagogical conditions. A model as a personality quality future professional has been developed tested. results this study create opportunities for further development problem in context organization lectures learning process students different courses types specializatio...

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This paper focused the conceptualizations of toxic leadership and analyzes relationship between counterproductive work behavior (CWB). The mediating role psychological contract breach was measured behavior, also by analyzing moderating effect proactive personality. selected sample for research comprised 355 nurses serving in public sector Pakistan questionnaire used as a tool. Findings data rev...

Branded apps are gaining momentum in branding strategies, as they allow proximity to the customers and a great opportunity engage retain them. This paper aims fill existing literature gap investigate role of transactionality effect branded app experience on brand loyalty. A lab experiment compares fully transactional (i.e., commercial), semi-transactional freemium), non-transactional (free serv...