Personality and performance are intricately linked, and personality has proven to have a direct influence on an individual's leadership ability and style, team performance, and overall organizational effectiveness. In Personality and the Fate of Organizations, author Robert Hogan offers a systematic account of the nature of personality, showing how to use personality to understand, evaluate, select, deselect, train, and understand organizations. This book brings insights from a leading industrial organizational psychologist who asserts that personality is real, and that it determines the careers of individuals and the fate of organizations. The author’s goal is to increase the reader’s ability to understand other people—how they are alike, how they are different, and why they do what they do. Armed with understanding, readers will be able to pursue their personal, social, and organizational goals more efficiently. A practical reference, this text is extremely useful for MBA students and for all those studying organizational psychology and leadership.
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"While no book can offer a road map out of the fog that many Organizational Behavior researchers have regarding personality, this book does shine considerable light on important topics. There is no doubt it will be considered new and fresh. There are few writers in the organizational sciences--or psychology for that matter--who can communicate material as engagingly as Robert Hogan. He brings the subject of personality to life, and in doing so presents previously explored and unexplored concepts central to personality psychology."
—Timothy A. Judge
Department of Management, University of Florida
"A superb demonstration of the importance of personality traits in organizational contexts, and a lesson for any organizational psychologist (and manager) who undermines the importance of personality in sociological, historical, and political settings. Hogan's new book provides a theoretical and scientifically robust explanation of leadership, managerial incompetence, and job success, in a unique and charming style that is both a joy to read and accessible to everyone. No other author has accomplished this task with such brilliance, and no other book has succeeded at bridging the gap between academic and business knowledge with such accuracy and simplicity: a real masterpiece!"
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Department of Psychology, University of London, Goldsmiths College
"Bob Hogan has taught me more about leadership and personality--both intellectually and experientially--than any person I know. Given what is happening on the world stage as well as in our political, business, health care, and educational systems, this book should be mandatory reading for anyone in a position of authority. Leadership is the number one issue of the day, and we have tolerated weak or mediocre performance from our leaders for far too long."
—Gordon Curphy
President, C3, Co-author of Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience
"It is rare to find such a seriously researched, thoughtfully constructed and paradigm-challenging book so easy to read. This must be on the prescribed reading list of undergraduates and graduates in personality theory, organizational behavior and HR management, as well as read by all consultants and managers interested in the role of personality and individual differences in the workplace."
—Adrian Furnham
Professor of Psychology, University College London
"Robert Hogan is one of the most well known and often cited authors in the realm of personality as it relates to organizations and organizational behavior. As a result, many readers will find his latest text, Personality and the Fate of Organizations, informative and authoritative… Hogan's discussion of the key issues in personality psychology is accurate and in-depth." – Steven M. Elias, PsycCRITIQUES
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Robert Hogan, Ph.D.,president of Hogan Assessment Systems, is an international authority on personality assessment, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. Dr. Hogan was McFarlin Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Tulsa for 14 years. Prior to that, he was Professor of Psychology and Social Relations at The Johns Hopkins University. He has received a number of research and teaching awards, and is the editor of theHandbook of Personality Psychologyand author of theHogan Personality Inventory. Dr. Hogan received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in personality assessment.
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Robert Hogan very quickly makes you feel you are in good hands as he distills a long career as personality researcher and organizational consultant into this very accessible volume. His "rules of the road" are simple: Is the principle useful in the real world of leadership and organizational development? and, Is the principle rooted in solid data?
My guess is that Hogan made a practice of underselling--and then overdelivering to his clients. And this is exactly what this book does. It could probably replace a shelf full of business and organizational psychology books. Instead of a cold academic or a irrationally exuberant treatment of the importance of personality in leadership and team building, Hogan takes a refreshingly direct, honest and conversational approach. In the spirit Jim Collin's "level 5 leadership," he is more interested in being helpful than in shining a light on himself. While reading the book I kept thinking that I was being guided by a favorite Uncle whose interest in teaching me was driven by a deeper level of caring than is found in the typical relationship of teacher/student or writer/reader. You can tell that Mr. Hogan is interested in helping his reader get results through a singularly no-nonsense approach. While never mean-spirited, he has very little tolerance for practices and theories that do not follow his two "rules of the road". For example, Hogan is quick to dismiss Jung's model of personality as reflected in the Myers-Briggs typology. Personally, I believe that Emotional Intelligence, Maslow, and Jungian typologies (which don't quite meet Hogan's rules of the road) continue to have large popular followings because they offer real insights in a warmer and less reductionistic way than the Big Five model (which has in fact been a great boon to personality research). Matter of fact and practical is good--but so are texture, nuance, introspection, and non-reductionistic models of personality. Some of the greatest models of personality have come from novelists and poets--e.g. Shakespeare on the anatomy of dangers of hubris. Great leadership has an element of artistry--as well as other qualities that don't fit neatly in the Big Five or other lexical taxonomies. So science is a great way of knowing--but we have to recognize that it is a way of knowing that is firmly seated in the brain's left hemisphere--and does not have the symphonic or synergistic qualities of ways of knowing grounded in the right hemisphere. There is essential truth in these ways of knowing that should not be dismissed--but integrated into a greater explanatory whole. This is a surprisingly good book. My only regret is that I didn't have an Uncle Robert Hogan when I was struggling to learn the ropes of organizational behavior :)
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Once, when scholars were certain that personality did not exist, Robert Hogan led the charge against ignorance. The current revival of personality in organizational studies is in no small part due to Hogan's tireless research, writing, and professional presentations. All along his point has simply been that personality matters--as Freud put it, "Character is fate."
In this fabulous and briskly written book, the master marshals data, theory, and clear-headed thinking to present the most persuasive account ever presented on how and why personality determines the success and failure of business, political, and religious organizations. This is no small feat. However, it is topped by how plainly accessible Hogan renders his argument. You will not find any hedging or hawing, no mealy-mouthed consultant-speak trying to have it both ways. Instead, you get a no-holds-barred statement on such important lessons as how one bad apple really can spoil the bunch (personality and teams), who you are is how you lead (personality and leadership), why one jerk at the top can cause misery and losses for many (dark side of leadership), how self-actualization theory is Marxism-lite for Dummies (human nature), and how the individual search for power is the primary force animating all human activity (the secret life of organizations). While firmly rooted in science, Personality and the Fate of Organizations is an essential guide for the thinking navigator of corporate politics, hierarchies, and realities. As Hogan put it in the context of human evolution, the most dangerous aspect of the environment is other people. This penetrating and fun-to-read treatise provides practical insight into that most powerful--and dangerous--force on the planet. The reader is rewarded with a roadmap for getting along, getting ahead, and finding some measure of meaning and purpose in it all. Not for the faint of heart or ideologically inclined.
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Do situations create leaders or do leaders create situations?,
This review is from: Personality and the Fate of Organizations (Hardcover)
Personality and the Fate of Organizations by Robert Hogan, Ph.D., is a small book with a big message: the personalities of leaders have a dramatic role in the course of human affairs. While the average person might find this an obvious conclusion, academics and researchers have debated one question contentiously: Are leaders more-or-less average people who "rise to the occasion" or is their personality a unique factor in the outcome of their leadership?. Hogan is the author of the Hogan Personality Inventory, one of the few personality tests written and validated for the workplace. He comes down firmly on the side of personality as a key factor in the outcome of an individual's leadership.
"In a tradition extending from Freud and Weber to me," says Hogan, "people argue that leadership is a function of the characteristics of individuals. This means that some people have more talent for leadership than others." In seven chapters, Hogan examines the nature of that talent and its antithesis. He goes through a definition of personality, gives a history of personality psychology, examines leadership, team performance, organizational theory, managerial incompetence, and how to fix the latter. The main text is only 151 pages, but it encompasses topics no less than "The Psychology of Managerial Incompetence" and "The Secret Life of Organizations." Hogan has dedicated his career to understanding the role of personality in the workplace; this book may be his capstone explanation of all he has learned.
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