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The roles of personality and self-defeating behaviors in self-management failure
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Renn, R. W., Allen, David G., Fedor, D. B. and Davis, W. D. (2005) The roles of personality and self-defeating behaviors in self-management failure. Journal of Management Studies, Volume 31 (Number 5). pp. 659-679. doi:10.1177/0149206305279053 ISSN 0022-2380.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0149206305279053
Abstract
Purpose - Develops a framework for understanding how an individual's personality can predispose him/her to engage in self-defeating behaviour that will result in self-management failure.
Design/methodology/approach - Identifies six behaviours that are likely to damage the ability of individuals to reach their goals and targets - procrastination, inaccurate self-assessment, self-handicapping, inability to delay gratification, emotional self-absorption and escalation of commitment. Discusses the nature of these self-defeating behaviours and examines how personality can affect the propensity to engage in them. Identifies personality traits that could have particular impact - conscientiousness, neuroticism, locus of control, generalized self-efficacy and self-esteem - and sets out a series of hypotheses on how these personality traits will influence whether a person will engage in self-defeating behaviour. Lastly sets out a series of propositions on how self-defeating behaviour can affect the ability to self-manage by affecting standard setting, monitoring of effort and environment, and the ability to operate in the environment.
Findings - Argues that understanding of the role of personality and self-defeating behaviour in self-management failure could offer a way of intervening in poor job performance.
Research limitations/implications - Sets out the model and the propositions on which it is based.
Practical implications - Discusses the practical implications of the model for managing job performance.
Originality/value - Underlines the need to understand the factors that affect the individual's ability to self-manage.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Management Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||
| ISSN: | 0022-2380 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2005 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 31 | ||||
| Number: | Number 5 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 659-679 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/0149206305279053 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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