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Assessing Leadership: A View from the Dark Side
Author(s) -
Hogan Robert,
Hogan Joyce
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2389.00162
Subject(s) - psychology , dysfunctional family , derailment , inventory management , applied psychology , assessment center , social psychology , operations management , clinical psychology , computer science , track (disk drive) , economics , operating system
This article concerns leadership effectiveness studied from the reverse angle. We review the literature on managerial derailment and propose a taxonomy of derailment factors. We then describe an inventory designed to assess these factors, provide some evidence regarding the psychometric features of the inventory, and some evidence regarding its validity. We suggest that the base rate for managerial incompetence in any organization is quite high, and we propose our inventory is a useful device for management development – because it focuses on dysfunctional dispositions known to be associated with failure as a manager.