Individuals Flashcards
Jung
Individuals can be categorized by their preferences of different traits (e.g. MBTI)
Eysencks (1985)
Studied behavior to find underlying traits (observing repeated actions)
- neuroticism
- extraversion
O’Deherty (2007)
Questions use of personality science (nomothetic)
- reengineering the workplace: exclusion, discrimination
- reductive techniques of measurement: underplays other factors (social environment)
Furnham (2007)
Management dysfunctional personalities:
- narcissist
- psychopath
- Machiavellian personality
Cooley (1902)
Looking-glass self (reflective self)
Our self is constructed from interpersonal interactions and perceptions of others
Carl Rogers
‘Two-sided self’: how you see yourself is a mix of your own perceptions, feelings and your social self (how you appear to others)
Freud
Psychodynamics: contrasts with behavioural psychology, ignores scientific view of ‘measuring’ personality and tries to find their uniqueness and complexity through their own perspectives, social interactions and experiences.
Roy Jaques (1996)
Management discourse shapes our perception (discursive power) - ways of thinking are not natural, became 'naturalized' through use of words (e.g. Use of world-class efficiency, productivity, competitiveness)
Harper (2000)
Beauty bias: Looks, weight, height influence pay and promotion
Kelley (1971)
We tend to attribute our successes to ourself and blame our failures to others
Haire and Grunes (1950)
Logical error: Distorted perspectives on Factory Workers and their traits
Thorndike (1920)
Halo/horn effect - we make judgement based on one (striking) positive or negative characteristic
‘First impressions’
Lippmann (1922)
Stereotypes:
Link characteristics to groups or categories of people
- Proneness to negative stereotyping (e.g. pro-white bias)
- self-fulfilling prophecy
