Open AccessPrototypes profiles of managerial performance
Author(s) -
Bogdan Socea
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psihologia resurselor umane
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2392-8077
pISSN - 1583-7327
DOI - 10.24837/pru.v7i2.438
Subject(s) - psychology , applied psychology , social psychology , personality , similarity (geometry) , job performance , variety (cybernetics) , computer science , job satisfaction , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
This study examines empirically distinct types of police managers. In an application of the typological methodology the present work investigates the performance profiles of police managers according to the similarity of their configurations. This research was exploratory and no formal hypotheses as to the number and nature of the types that will emerge were advanced. A total of 150 police officers occupying managerial positions from a variety of organizational levels participated in a combined psychological and managerial assessment program. Through inverse factor analysis the participants of this study were classified into three type categories: Aloof Technicians, Amiable Mediocres and Warmhearted Influents. The nature of these prototypical profiles was determined by examining the correlations between participants’ component loadings and scores on managerial performance, personality and mental ability variables. Implications addressing predictor-performance relations, implicit theories of performance, gender differences and relative effectiveness of each type in different situations were discussed.