Yes, Personality Matters: Moving on to More Important Matters

By Murray R. Barrick. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature (2018, neutral): “Barrick and Mount (2005) claim that “specific ‘traits rely on explicit description of entrepreneurial activities that may be situated in time, place and role,’ which is why specific characteristics such as risk tolerance, need for”
The Contributions of Personality to Organizational Behavior and Psychology: Findings, Criticisms, and Future Research Directions (2008, background): “…personality and organizational criteria has led some researchers to assert ‘personality plays a meaningful role in nearly all facets of work ...’ (Barrick & Mount, 2005, p. 363) and ‘the controversy over whether personality tests can be useful for the prediction of employee performance is no…”
Let's put the person back into entrepreneurship research: A meta-analysis on the relationship between business owners' personality traits, business creation, and success (2007, background): “In contrast, another set of authors suggested to differentiate between broad and narrow traits (Barrick & Mount, 2005; Dudley, Orvis, Lebiecki, & Cortina, 2006; Tett, Steele, & Beauregard, 2003).”
The good, the bad and the effective: a meta-analytic examination of selling orientation and customer orientation on sales performance (2014, background): “Personality can be measured at different levels of trait generality (Barrick and Mount 2005).”
The Bright and Dark Sides of Personality: Implications for Personnel Selection in Individual and Team Contexts (2007, background): “Such reviews have appeared elsewhere (e.g. Barrick and Mount, 2005; Hogan and Roberts, 2001; Hough and Oswald, 2005).”
Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, neutral): “Zhao and Seibert (2006) provide a survey on this issue while Barrick and Mount (2005) and Dudley et al. (2006) present a critical perspective of this approach.”
The relationship between the entrepreneurial personality and the Big Five personality traits (2014, background): “It is likely that the matched traits are more strongly related to entrepreneurial success because they rely on explicit descriptions that are 5 task specific (Barrick & Mount, 2005; Rauch & Frese, 2007).”
Motivation and personality of preservice teachers in Croatia (2012, background): “…is not conceptually related to the specific occupational demands of the teaching profession, but has been consistently the most predictive dimension for overall performance and intrinsic satisfaction across occupations (Barrick & Mount, 2005; Judge, Higgins, Thoresen, & Barrick, 1999).”