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Gender and Personality Differences in Self‐ and Other Ratings of Business Intelligence
Author(s) -
Furnham Adrian
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8551.2005.00434.x
Subject(s) - boss , openness to experience , psychology , personality , big five personality traits , emotional intelligence , agreeableness , fluid intelligence , social psychology , intelligence quotient , cognition , developmental psychology , extraversion and introversion , working memory , materials science , neuroscience , metallurgy
This paper is concerned with people's understanding of, and self‐estimation on, various new ‘business intelligences’ and aims to examine whether these estimates were systematically related to personality dimensions. A total of 184 adult working participants completed a three‐part questionnaire that measured their ‘big five’ personality traits (NEO‐FFI), various beliefs about intelligence and also their own and their boss's estimated overall IQ score and scores on eight multiple business intelligences. Males rated their overall IQ as well as their cognitive, creative and political intelligence as significantly higher than females. Females rated their boss's overall, emotional and organizational IQ significantly higher than did male participants. Participants believed they had higher emotional, but lower political, organizational and network intelligence than their boss. Regressions indicated that only one of the eight estimated business intelligences (cognitive intelligence) was related to overall (total, general) estimated intelligence in self, boss or boss's boss. Regressing the big‐five personality factors onto each of the self‐estimates showed openness‐to‐experience was positively, and agreeableness negatively, related to most of the estimates. Those who had taken an intelligence test tended to giver higher self‐estimates on overall intelligence. Implications of these results for business life are considered.