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Individuality as a Factor in the Success of Management Personnel
Author(s) -
GHISELLI EDWIN E.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1960.tb01514.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , civil service , cluster (spacecraft) , service (business) , job performance , applied psychology , job satisfaction , public service , public relations , marketing , political science , computer science , business , programming language
Summary S ixty ‐T hree administrators in the Italian Civil Service were rated by their peers on 18 traits pertaining to their job performance. The intercorrelations among persons were computed and cluster analysed. Each man was scored in terms of the degree to which his pattern of traits was dissimilar to those characterizing men in any of the clusters. The coefficient of correlation between these values, termed measures of individuality, and over‐all job success was found to be .541.