Personality and Learning in Organizations

Mike Smith, John Beck, Cary L. Cooper, Charles Cox, Dick Ottaway and Reg Talbot
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Mike Smith: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
John Beck: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Cary L. Cooper: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Charles Cox: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Dick Ottaway: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Reg Talbot: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Chapter 4 in Introducing Organizational Behaviour, 1982, pp 54-71 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract What is the personality? In 1937 one well-known psychologist (Gordon Allport) found fifty definitions in the literature. Today there would be many more. Not all writers think highly of the term. Brown (1964) calls it ‘rather a regretable word’. And Lazarus (1971) says: When the layman thinks about personality, he is likely to view it as the impression one makes on others; he is likely to be concerned with such things as having a ‘good’ or ‘effective’ personality … When the psychologist thinks about personality, however, he sees it as the study of the stable psychological structures and processes that organize human environment.

Keywords: Organizational Behaviour; Primary Group; Time Perspective; Humanistic Psychologist; Humanistic View (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-16833-0_4

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