This study aims to uncover the pre-dispositional roots of organizational commitment. More specifically, the purpose of the study is to investigate whether affective and continuance dimensions of organizational commitment are deliberately influenced by a defined set of personality traits. The...

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits — the Big Five — on an individual’s decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions,...

The present research takes an "other-centered" approach to examining personal and contextual antecedents of taking charge behavior in organizations. Largely consistent with the authors' hypotheses, regression analyses involving data collected from 2 diverse samples containing both coworkers and...

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive power of each facet of the five-factor model of personality on job success in a Thai sample. The sample consisted of 2518 persons from seven occupations. The research found that for all occupational groups neuroticism was significantly...

Pluralities of personality schemas reside across different Maruyama universes suggesting incommensurability and isolation. Schemas may migrate across Maruyama universes given appropriate means. As illustration, the MBTI schema for personality temperament is migrated into a sociocognitive schema...

Women small business owners (WSBOs) cite numerous reasons for deciding to start their own business, ranging from an interest in personal autonomy to feelings of frustration and boredom in previous jobs.The purpose of this paper is to explore possible similar age and personality characteristics...

We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...

Many studies have shown that people display an apparent overconfidence. In particular, it is common for a majority of people to describe themselves as better than average. The literature takes for granted that this better-than-average effect is problematic. We argue, however, that, even...

We examine the role of cognitive ability, personality traits and gender in a one-shot gift exchange experiment. Controlling for cognitive ability and personality characteristics, men offer higher wages than women do, as do agents with greater cognitive ability and those scoring higher on...

Accountability or non accountability behaviors, which normally are exhibited by people in organizations, is not. Are there personality factors that influence accountability behavior of an individual? Results on personality tests are being used by organizations in employee recruitment, selection,...