Looks Good on Paper?

Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16836-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Columbia Business School Publishing

Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirically based approach to identify executives who will be effective within organizations -- and to flag those who will ultimately fail -- by evaluating aspects of personality and character that are hidden beneath the surface.

Pratch compares candidates with impressive careers and tries to determine which ones are likely to act with consistently high integrity and exhibit sound, timely judgment when faced with unanticipated business problems. Central to effective leadership is a psychological quality called "active coping," which Pratch defines and explores by referencing case studies, historical figures, and her own scholarly work. This book speaks not only to those in hiring positions and their advisors but more widely to leaders and anyone who wishes to learn more about their own character and the abilities of those around them. She offers knowledge, asks questions, and challenges common perceptions, providing a practical tool for those in business and for general readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pratch, Leslie

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsIntroductionPart I: The Theory and Practice of Active Coping1. The Power of Active Coping2. Predicting Performance3. Coping Styles and Coping Holes4. What Lies Beneath?5. Integrity6. Psychological Autonomy: Lemmings Need Not Apply7. Integrative Capacity: Seeing Reality with Both Eyes Open8. Catalytic Coping9. Implications for Female LeadersPart II: Enhancing Your Active Coping10. Past Is Not Necessarily Prologue: Improving Your Active Coping11. Self-Assessment for Strengthening Active Coping12. Developing Active Coping: A Success Story13. ConclusionAppendix A: Technical Companion to Chapter 3Appendix B: Technical Companion to Chapter 4NotesBibliographyIndex

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Über Autor(innen)

Leslie S. Pratch has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University and an MBA in strategy and finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has published a number of scholarly articles.