This study investigates the effect of differences in personality types on the extent to which managerial roles are emphasized by practicing managers. Personality, as a job related contingency factor, is considered because the literature suggests that it has a major effect on the manager's job. / The study builds on Mintzberg's research by using his descriptions of managerial activities and provides an opportunity to evaluate the influence of the person variable on the manager's job. The major thrust of the study is to test the proposition that differences in personality type influence the extent to which certain managerial roles are emphasized by managers. / The research methodology utilizes an empirically derived classification of managerial roles and a standard personality instrument to test several a priori hypotheses which grow out of the literature. Ninety practicing managers were surveyed. It was predicted that significant differences would exist among the responses of managers of different personality types insofar as they emphasized certain managerial roles. Generally, the results of the hypothesis testing show statistically significant differences do not exist. / Findings from a post hoc analysis, however, show statistically significant differences do exist between the responses of several specific (i.e., more homogeneous) personality types and certain managerial roles. Although these findings tend to support the basic proposition of this study, it is not possible to make a clear case because of their tentative nature. There appears, however, to be enough trends and differences to indicate that the phenomenon is worthy of further research. / Overall, this study: (1) endorses Mintzberg's findings that manager's play ten managerial roles but with different emphasis, and (2) provides general support to the contingency notion that the work of a manager varies according to his/her personality. Perhaps the most important contribution of this study was the demonstration of an effect, though limited, of personality on managerial work. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, Section: A, page: 0860. / Thesis (D.B.A.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74779 |
| Contributors | BRIGHT, FRANK JAMES., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 182 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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