<p>The interpretation of this qualitative study indicates that individuals, teams and the organisation can benefit through allowing focus of unlocking that which provides a positive stimulus during challenging times in organisational settings. For social scientists, and in particular behavioural scientists, including industrial psychologists that are interested in positive psychology, it is hoped that there is an invitation to grow this area of research further and to gain new insights and direction for what are the enablers to experience positive change and gratitude.</p>

Akademinių pasiekimų sąsajos su įvairiais kintamaisiais yra nagrinėjamos jau daugiau kaip šimtą metų. Pastaruoju metu vis didesnio dėmesio susilaukia „neintelektiniai“ faktoriai, kurių sąsajas su mokymosi rezultatais bei prognostinį validumą patvirtina vis daugiau empirinių tyrimų. Vieni iš tokių faktorių yra asmenybės savybės bei kognityvusis stilius. Asmenybės savybės atspindi asmens polinkį elgtis, jausti bei mąstyti tam tikru sąlyginai pastoviu būdu nepriklausomai nuo situacijos, konteksto ar laiko (Chamorro-Premuzic ir Furnham, 2006). Individualus asmens kognityvusis stilius parodo asmens polinkį apdoroti gaunamą informacija tam tikru sąlyginai pastoviu būdu nepriklausomai nuo informacijos turinio (&#1061;&#1086;&#1083;&#1086;&#1076;&#1085;&#1072;&#1103;, 2002). Šio darbo tikslas yra nagrinėti sąsajas tarp Penkių faktorių modelio rėmuose išskiriamų penkių asmenybės dimensijų bei juos sudarančių 30 žemesnio lygmens asmenybės bruožų, siauro/plataus ekvivalencijos diapazono kognityviojo stiliaus, kuris atspindi individo polinkį skaidyti informaciją į daug/mažai grupių, bei universitetinių ir mokyklinių akademinių pasiekimų. Tyrimo metu buvo ištirti 176 Vilniaus universitete įvairiose specialybėse studijuojantys pirmo ir antro kurso studentai. Tiriamieji užpildė NEO PI-R (Costa and McCrae, 1992) asmenybės klausimyno lietuvišką versiją (Žukauskienė ir Barkauskienė, 2006), akademinių pasiekimų anketą bei atliko žodžių grupavimo užduotį. Gauti tyrimo rezultatai parodė, kad: a)... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Relations between academic achievements and different variables have been investigated for more than 100 years. Recently, nonintellectual factors are becoming more and more popular among investigators. Also, these factors receive more empirical evidences supporting they predictive validity. One of these factors are personality traits and cognitive style. Personality traits could be decrypted as predispositions to think, feel, and behave in consistent ways relatively independent of the situation, context, and time (Chamorro-Premuzic ir Furnham, 2006). Cognitive style is an individual way to process information in some relatively stable way independently from content of information. The purpose of this research is to analyze links between five personality dimensions and 30 personality traits which were derived from Five Factor Model, broad/narrow equivalence range cognitive style, which reflects a tendency of a person to separate objects in to few/many groups, and academic achievements obtained in a school and university. 176 first and second year students from Vilnius University from different specialties took part in the research. They were given the Lithuanian version ((Žukauskienė ir Barkauskienė, 2006) of the NEO PI-R personality inventory (Costa and McCrae, 1992), the questionnaire for academic achievements to fulfil and words grouping task. Following results were obtained: a) academic achievements in a university statistically significantly correlate with... [to full text]

Changes in South Africa's political and economic sphere demand the democratisation of the workplace, participation and empowerment of the work force. Flatter hierarchical structures, as a result of downsizing, enhance involvement but also demand that workers function in a more autonomous manner. The use of self-managing work teams has increased in response to these competitive challenges. Self-managing work teams are groups of employees who are fully responsible for a well-defined segment of finished work that delivers a product or a service to an internal or external customer. The functioning of self-managing work teams, in terms of the systems model, can be described as certain inputs that help the team to perform certain tasks and follow processes in order to achieve certain outputs. Inputs include the motivation, skills and personality factors of team members, while the tasks and processes refer to problem solving, conflict resolution, communication and decision making, planning, quality control, dividing of tasks, training and performance appraisal. These inputs and processes lead to outputs such as efficiency, productivity and quality of work life. To date empirical studies regarding self-managing work teams in South Africa focused on the readiness of organisations for implementing these teams. Little research has been done on characteristics of successful self-managed work group members. Findings regarding members of self-managing work teams elsewhere in the world couldn't uncritically be applied to South Africa, because of widely different circumstances. Research on dispositional factors such as sense of coherence, self-efficacy, locus of control and the big five personality dimensions could therefore help to identify predictors of effectiveness that can be validated in consecutive studies for selection purposes in a self-managing work team context in South Africa. The objective of the research was therefore to determine the relationship between dispositional characteristics of members of a self-managing work team and the effectiveness and quality of work life of these members. A cross-sectional survey design was used. The sample included members of self-managing work teams (N = 102) from a large chemical organisation and a financial institution in South Africa. The Orientation to Life Questionnaire, a Self-efficacy Scale, the Locus of Control Questionnaire and Personality Characteristics Inventory were used to measure the dispositional variables. Quality of work life (measured as consisting of satisfaction, commitment to the organisation and commitment to the team) and self-rated team member effectiveness were used as dependent variables. Descriptive statistics, Pearson and Spearman correlations, canonical correlations and structural equation modelling were used to analyse the data and investigate the relationships between the various dispositional characteristics quality of work life and effectiveness of the team members. The results showed practically significant positive relationships between sense of coherence, self-efficacy, autonomy, external locus of control and internal locus of control on the one hand, and quality of work life and effectiveness of the team members of self-managing work teams on the other hand. Of the big five personality dimensions only openness was associated with commitment to the team in terms of the quality of work life. Stability, extraversion and openness were associated with the self-rated effectiveness of the team members of self-managing work teams. The structural equation modelling showed that there is a positive path from the dispositional characteristics to the satisfaction, commitment and self-rated effectiveness of the team members. The dispositional characteristics will also enhance the members' experience of role clarity and mediate the effects of job-induced tension on the members' self-rated effectiveness. Satisfaction of the team members moderate the relationship between the dispositional characteristics and commitment, as well as mediate the effects of job-induced tension on the commitment of the team members. Organisations implementing self-managing work teams can benefit from developing and enhancing these dispositional characteristics in their selected team members and could also validate these dispositional characteristics in terms of selection criteria for self-managing work team members. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2004.

Os estudos sobre comprometimento organizacional vêm se expandindo no cenário internacional e nacional e apresentam diferentes focos de investigação. A relação entre o Comprometimento Organizacional e a personalidade no referencial teórico do Modelo dos Cinco Grandes Fatores – Big Five é o objetivo dessa pesquisa. Os participantes foram 269 profissionais entre 17 e 80 anos de idade, oriundos de empresas públicas e privadas. Os instrumentos utilizados foram um questionário sócio-demográfico, uma Escala de Comprometimento Organizacional, e as Escalas Fatoriais de Extroversão, Socialização e Abertura. As análises de Regressão apontaram que as variáveis que apresentam maior efeito sobre o Comprometimento Organizacional foram Abertura e alguns subfatores das Escalas de Extroversão e Socialização. Já a natureza das instituições (pública e privada) influenciou no vínculo que os trabalhadores desenvolvem com a organização sendo que esse vínculo é respaldado por diferentes fatores da personalidade. A percepção dos colaboradores quanto ao apoio que as empresas oferecem para o desenvolvimento profissional e o tempo de atividade no mesmo local de trabalho foram as variáveis mais significativas na interação com o Comprometimento Organizacional. / Studies on commitment to organizations are expanding in both national and international scenes and there are multiple focuses of investigation and research. The study of the relationship between commitment to organizations and personality in the context of the Big Five Model is the goal of this research. The participants were 269 professionals, 17 to 80 years old, working in state-controlled companies or in private companies. The instruments used were a social-demographic questionnaire, the Scale of Organizational Commitment, and the factorial Scales of Extraversion, Agreeableness and Openness. An analysis of regression showed that the variables that had most effect on organizational commitment were openness, some sub-factors of extraversion and agreeableness. No significant relationship was found between these construct. The nature of the institution (state-controlled or private) affected the bond between the workers and the organization, mediated by different personality factors. The perception of the workers about the support the companies offer to personal development and the time of activity in the same company were the most significant variables to determine organizational commitment.

Submitted by Luís Fernando Varotto (lvarotto@ig.com.br) on 2015-03-30T14:56:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE Luís F Varotto - Franchisor- franchisee relationship and performance.pdf: 5577752 bytes, checksum: c2c0a5c8e14cab676f16eb65bfeaa9b3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by PAMELA BELTRAN TONSA (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2015-03-30T14:56:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE Luís F Varotto - Franchisor- franchisee relationship and performance.pdf: 5577752 bytes, checksum: c2c0a5c8e14cab676f16eb65bfeaa9b3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-30T14:57:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE Luís F Varotto - Franchisor- franchisee relationship and performance.pdf: 5577752 bytes, checksum: c2c0a5c8e14cab676f16eb65bfeaa9b3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-02-27 / Literature in franchise has virtually ignored the role of psychological aspects on firm interorganizational results, despite its influence on firm level results and relationship quality. Therefore, the present study aims to examine the influence of franchisees’ personality and entrepreneurial drive on franchisor-franchisee relationship quality and financial performance over time. The study also investigated the role of the time of relationship on the relationship quality and financial performance. This study used a self-report survey conducted by mail to collect data from a sample of 342 franchisees selected from 3 franchise networks. Personality was represented by the Big-Five personality traits (IPIP-B5 scales): extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and imagination. Entrepreneur drive was represented by the Carland Entrepreneurship Index (CEI). Relationship quality was conceptualized through a 23-item second-order construct (incorporating trust, commitment, and relationship satisfaction), while financial performance was represented by using a scale measuring sales growth and profitability. Time of relationship was measured by the months of relationship between franchisee and franchisor. A Partial Least Squares (PLS) structural equation model, mean analysis, and regression analysis were conducted to test the hypothesized relationships. Three of the five personality dimensions produced the predicted effect on the outcome variables of relationship quality – agreeableness (positively), emotional stability (positively), and imagination (positively). Financial performance was affected as predicted by conscientiousness (positively), emotional stability (positively), and imagination (positively). As expected, relationship quality presented a positive and significant effect on financial performance. Entrepreneurial drive showed the predicted positive effect only on performance. Time of relationship presented the positive predicted effect on the franchisor-franchisee relationship as regards relationship quality and financial performance; however, the hypothesized shape of the relationship phases could only partially be confirmed, since only between two phases (routine and stabilization) mean analysis showed significant differences. Results indicate that personality does in fact influence relationship quality and performance, but the manner in which this occurs differs from the Brazilian context where this research was conducted to the findings of research conducted in Australia, suggesting that factors such as culture and market stability may have influence on the relationship between personality traits and both relationship quality and financial performance. Entrepreneurial drive appears to positively influence franchisee performance, but its influence proved not to produce a significant impact on relationship quality. The present study’s results also indicate the importance of the time of relationship needed to foster relationship quality and performance. Moreover, long-term relationships are related to better franchisee relationship quality and financial performance assessments. Limitations of this work and suggestions for future studies are also discussed. / A literatura em franchising tem virtualmente ignorado o papel de aspectos psicologicos nos resultados interorganizacionais das empresas, a despeito de sua influencia nos resultados das organizações e da qualidade de relacionamento. Este estudo, portanto, tem por objetivo analisar a influência da personalidade e do potencial empreendedor na qualidade de relacionamento e desempenho financeiro na relação franqueador-franqueado, ao longo do tempo, sob a perspectiva dos franqueados. Este estudo analisa também o papel do tempo de relacionamento sobre a qualidade de relacionamento e o desempenho financeiro. Foi utilizado neste estudo um questionário de auto-preenchimento, enviado por e-mail, com o objetivo de recolher dados de uma amostra de 342 franqueados de 3 redes de franquias. A personalidade foi mensurada por meio dos “Cinco Grandes” traços de personalidade (escalas IPIP-B5): extroversão, agradabilidade, consciencia, estabilidade emocional e imaginação. O potencial empreendedor foi mensurado por meio do índice CEI (Carland Entrepreneurship Index). A qualidade do relacionamento foi estruturada como um constructo de segunda ordem, composto por 23 itens (incorporando confiança, comprometimento e satisfação com o relacionamento), e o desempenho financeiro foi representado por meio de uma escala de mensuração de crescimento de vendas e de rentabilidade. O tempo de relacionamento foi medido por meio dos meses de relacionamento entre franqueado e franqueador. As hipoteses foram testadas por meio de modelagem por equações estruturais, com a utilização do método de mínimos quadrados parciais (PLS), análise de regressão e análise de médias. Três das cinco dimensões da personalidade apresentaram o efeito previsto sobre as variáveis qualidade do relacionamento – agradabilidade (positivamente), estabilidade emocional (positivamente), e imaginação (positivamente). O desempenho financeiro foi influenciado, como previsto por consciência (positivamente), estabilidade emocional (positivamente), e imaginação (positivamente). Como esperado, a qualidade do relacionamento apresentou efeito positivo e significativo em relação ao desempenho financeiro. O potencial empreendedor apresentou o efeito positivo previsto apenas sobre desempenho. O tempo de relacionamento teve o efeito positivo esperado sobre o relacionamento franqueador-franqueado, em relação à qualidade do relacionamento e o desempenho financeiro, mas as diferenças entre as fases de relacionamento propostas foram apenas parcialmente confirmadas, uma vez que em somente duas fases (rotina e estabilização) a análise de médias mostrou diferenças significativas. Os resultados indicam que a personalidade influencia a qualidade de relacionamento e o desempenho, mas a meneira pela qual isso ocorre é diferente no contexto brasileiro, onde esta pesquisa foi realizada, dos achados da pesquisa conduzida na Austrália, sugerindo que fatores como cultura e estabilidade de mercado podem ter influencia sobre a relação entre traços de personalidade e qualidade de relacionamento, e traços de personalidade e desempenho financeiro. O potencial empreendedor parece influenciar positivamente o desempenho do franqueado, mas a sua influência não foi significativa em relação à qualidade do relacionamento. Os resultados também indicam a importância do tempo no desenvolvimento da qualidade de relacionamento e desempenho. Além disso, os relacionamentos de longo prazo estão relacionados a melhores avaliações de qualidade de relacionamento e desempenho financeiros por parte dos franqueados. As limitações do trabalho e sugestões para estudos futuros também são discutidos.

Os estudos sobre comprometimento organizacional vêm se expandindo no cenário internacional e nacional e apresentam diferentes focos de investigação. A relação entre o Comprometimento Organizacional e a personalidade no referencial teórico do Modelo dos Cinco Grandes Fatores – Big Five é o objetivo dessa pesquisa. Os participantes foram 269 profissionais entre 17 e 80 anos de idade, oriundos de empresas públicas e privadas. Os instrumentos utilizados foram um questionário sócio-demográfico, uma Escala de Comprometimento Organizacional, e as Escalas Fatoriais de Extroversão, Socialização e Abertura. As análises de Regressão apontaram que as variáveis que apresentam maior efeito sobre o Comprometimento Organizacional foram Abertura e alguns subfatores das Escalas de Extroversão e Socialização. Já a natureza das instituições (pública e privada) influenciou no vínculo que os trabalhadores desenvolvem com a organização sendo que esse vínculo é respaldado por diferentes fatores da personalidade. A percepção dos colaboradores quanto ao apoio que as empresas oferecem para o desenvolvimento profissional e o tempo de atividade no mesmo local de trabalho foram as variáveis mais significativas na interação com o Comprometimento Organizacional. / Studies on commitment to organizations are expanding in both national and international scenes and there are multiple focuses of investigation and research. The study of the relationship between commitment to organizations and personality in the context of the Big Five Model is the goal of this research. The participants were 269 professionals, 17 to 80 years old, working in state-controlled companies or in private companies. The instruments used were a social-demographic questionnaire, the Scale of Organizational Commitment, and the factorial Scales of Extraversion, Agreeableness and Openness. An analysis of regression showed that the variables that had most effect on organizational commitment were openness, some sub-factors of extraversion and agreeableness. No significant relationship was found between these construct. The nature of the institution (state-controlled or private) affected the bond between the workers and the organization, mediated by different personality factors. The perception of the workers about the support the companies offer to personal development and the time of activity in the same company were the most significant variables to determine organizational commitment.

Os estudos sobre comprometimento organizacional vêm se expandindo no cenário internacional e nacional e apresentam diferentes focos de investigação. A relação entre o Comprometimento Organizacional e a personalidade no referencial teórico do Modelo dos Cinco Grandes Fatores – Big Five é o objetivo dessa pesquisa. Os participantes foram 269 profissionais entre 17 e 80 anos de idade, oriundos de empresas públicas e privadas. Os instrumentos utilizados foram um questionário sócio-demográfico, uma Escala de Comprometimento Organizacional, e as Escalas Fatoriais de Extroversão, Socialização e Abertura. As análises de Regressão apontaram que as variáveis que apresentam maior efeito sobre o Comprometimento Organizacional foram Abertura e alguns subfatores das Escalas de Extroversão e Socialização. Já a natureza das instituições (pública e privada) influenciou no vínculo que os trabalhadores desenvolvem com a organização sendo que esse vínculo é respaldado por diferentes fatores da personalidade. A percepção dos colaboradores quanto ao apoio que as empresas oferecem para o desenvolvimento profissional e o tempo de atividade no mesmo local de trabalho foram as variáveis mais significativas na interação com o Comprometimento Organizacional. / Studies on commitment to organizations are expanding in both national and international scenes and there are multiple focuses of investigation and research. The study of the relationship between commitment to organizations and personality in the context of the Big Five Model is the goal of this research. The participants were 269 professionals, 17 to 80 years old, working in state-controlled companies or in private companies. The instruments used were a social-demographic questionnaire, the Scale of Organizational Commitment, and the factorial Scales of Extraversion, Agreeableness and Openness. An analysis of regression showed that the variables that had most effect on organizational commitment were openness, some sub-factors of extraversion and agreeableness. No significant relationship was found between these construct. The nature of the institution (state-controlled or private) affected the bond between the workers and the organization, mediated by different personality factors. The perception of the workers about the support the companies offer to personal development and the time of activity in the same company were the most significant variables to determine organizational commitment.

This máster thesis presents research on the correlation of lexical information in texts in Portuguese with personality characteristics and model Big Five facets of IPIP-NEO. It elaborates, especially, on the use of classes of affective feelings LIWC lexicon. The main goal of this work is to relate the factors of the Big Five model and the IPIP-NEO facets of IPIP-NEO 120 and TIPI questionnaires with the posts of Facebook social network. For this, a tool called Personalitatem Lexicon was built. The methodology used to achieve the research objectives was bibliographical which were researched and analyzed the work done on personality inferences from texts. The result of the experiment shows that the inference of personality from the questionnaires have more precise conclusions for the same contain specific questions and answers to measure such characteristic. Already personality inference for posts is more susceptible to noise because not all experienced situations are exposed on the social network. However, inference of personality posts is possible, but the results are the moments / A presente dissertação apresenta pesquisa sobre a correlação de informações léxicas em textos em Português com características de personalidade do modelo Big Five e as facetas do IPIP-NEO. Discorre-se, especialmente, sobre o uso das classes de sentimentos afetivos do léxico LIWC. O objetivo principal desse trabalho é correlacionar os fatores do Big Five e as facetas do IPIP-NEO dos questionários IPIP-NEO 120 e TIPI com os posts da rede social Facebook. Para isso, foi construída uma ferramenta chamada de Personalitat em Lexicon. A metodologia adotada para atingir os objetivos da pesquisa foi de caráter bibliográfico onde foram pesquisados e analisados os trabalhos desenvolvidos sobre inferência de personalidade a partir de textos. O resultado do experimento mostra que a inferência de personalidade a partir dos questionários tem conclusões mais precisas pelo mesmo conter perguntas e respostas específicas para aferir tal característica. Já a inferência de personalidade por posts é mais susceptível a ruídos porque nem todas as situações vividas são expostas na rede social. Contudo, inferir personalidade por posts é possível, mas os resultados são retratos de momento.

Prokrastinering är en komplex process där både affektiva, kognitiva och beteendemässiga komponenter involveras. Prokrastinering är ett känt fenomen i arbetslivet.  Prevalensen är hög bland anställda, därför har fokus på fenomenet legat på just den populationen. Syfte är undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan prokrastinering och personlighetsfaktorer, samt prokrastinering och arbetstillfredsställelse hos anställda i Sverige. Deltagare var 98 anställda.  Deltagarna besvarade en enkät som bestod av Big Five Markers (BFM) skala, Pure procrastination scale (PPS) skala samt Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). Materialet analyserades med hjälp av Pearsson korrelationer och regressionsanalyser. Studien visade på att Neuroticism och Samvetsgrannhet har samband med prokrastinering, däremot Extraversion, Vänlighet samt Öppenhet inte hade något samband med prokrastinering. Arbetstillfredsställelse, kön och ålder visade ingen samband med prokrastinering. Slutsatsen är att bristen på självdisciplin leder till prokrastinering vilket orsakar stress och depression. Framtida forskning skulle vara intressant att undersöka om det finns ett samband mellan prokrastinering, bransch samt yrkeskategori.

Magister Commercii - MCom / The interpretation of this qualitative study indicates that individuals, teams and the organisation can benefit through allowing focus of unlocking that which provides a positive stimulus during challenging times in organisational settings. For social scientists, and in particular behavioural scientists, including industrial psychologists that are interested in positive psychology, it is hoped that there is an invitation to grow this area of research further and to gain new insights and direction for what are the enablers to experience positive change and gratitude. / South Africa