Wen-Dong Li, Shuping Li, Jie Jasmine Feng, Mo Wang, Hong Zhang, Michael Frese, Chia-Huei Wu
Organizational research has predominantly adopted the classic dispositional perspective to understand the importance of personality traits in shaping work outcomes. However, the burgeoning literature in personality psychology has documented that personality traits, although relatively stable, are able to develop throughout one's whole adulthood. A crucial force driving adult personality development is transition into novel work roles. In this article, we introduce a dynamic, role-based perspective on the adaptive nature of personality during the transition from the role of employee to that of leader (i...
July 23, 2020: Journal of Applied Psychology