Personality and the Fate of Organizations

by Robert Hogan

Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations , author Robert Hogan offers a systematic account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand organizations and to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, and train people.

This book brings insights from a leading industrial organizational psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and that it determines the careers of individuals and the fate of organizations. The author’s goal is to increase the reader’s ability to understand other people―how they are alike, how they are different, and why they do what they do. Armed with this understanding, readers will be able to pursue their personal, social, and organizational goals more efficiently.

A practical reference, this text is extremely useful for MBA students and for all those studying organizational psychology and leadership.

Genres: Psychology, Business, Nonfiction

178 pages, Paperback

First published June 21, 2006

About the author

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Robert Hogan is an American psychologist known for his innovations in personality testing, and is an international authority on personality assessment, leadership, and organizational effectiveness.

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essential reading.

[Anthony Korolev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book as an induction to the views which could be summarized by the phrase: "Personality predicts performance"