Session Summary

Session Number:542
Session ID:S182
Session Title:Incorporating Personality in Theories and Research on Organizational Processes: Individual Differences in Behavior and Affect in Organizations
Short Title:Individual Differences
Session Type:Division Symposium
Hotel:Hyatt West
Floor:3
Room:McCormick
Time:Monday, August 09, 1999 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Sponsors

HR  (Lynn Shore)mgtlms@langate.gsu.edu (404) 651-3038 

General People

Chair Côté, Stéphane  U. of Michigan stephanc@umich.edu (734) 647-3857 
Discussant Schneider, Benjamin  U. of Maryland Ben@Bss3.umd.edu 301-405-5927 

Submissions

Jobs, careers, and callings: Individual differences in goals for reemployment 
Presenter Wrzesniewski, Amy  U. of Michigan amywrz@umich.edu (734) 936-0554 
When Emotions Run Amok: Exploring the Roles of Affect in Counterproductive Behavior at Work 
Presenter Fox, Suzy  U. of South Florida sfox@coba.usf.edu 813-974-2492 
Presenter Spector, Paul E. U. of South Florida spector@chuma.cas.usf.edu (813) 974-1766 
Presenter Miles, Don  U. of South Florida miles@luna.cas.usf.edu (813) 974-1766 
Integrity in the Executive Suite: Leaders who Lie, Cheat, and Steal 
Presenter Collins, Judith M. Michigan State U. judithm@pilot.msu.edu (517) 887-1161 
Presenter Muchinsky, Paul M. U. of North Carolina, Greensboro pmmuchin@uncg.edu  (336) 334-4525  
A Conditional Model of the Role of Individual Differences in Organizations 
Presenter Côté, Stéphane  U. of Michigan stephanc@umich.edu (734) 647-3857 
Presenter Moskowitz, Debbie S. McGill U. dsm@ego.psych.mcgill.ca (514) 398-6108 
Individual Differences in Feedback Propensities and Their Relationship to Training Performance 
Presenter Herold, David  Georgia Institute of Technology david.herold@mgt.gatech.edu (404) 894-4920 

Abstract

The goal of this symposium is to present recent theoretical developments and research pertaining to the importance of dispositional effects on organizational behavior and emotion. Individual differences will be explored as characteristics that people have that are stable over time, and as characteristics that people have that change from moment to moment. The presentations in this symposium will explore the relation between individual differences and various organizational outcomes. Amy Wrzesniewski will present research that supports the role of individual differences in how individuals mentally construe work (as a job, a career, or a calling) and job reemployment outcomes. Suzy Fox, Paul Spector, and Don Miles will present research on the prediction of counterproductive organizational behaviors such as from both transient (e.g., state affect) and stable (e.g., trait anxiety) individual difference characteristics. Judith Collins and Paul Muchinsky will present research that demonstrates the importance of personality characteristics in distinguishing between executives who commit high crimes such as bank fraud and embezzlement and executives who do not commit such crimes. Stéphane Côté and Debbie Moskowitz will present a new theoretical model of the role of individual differences in organizations and present evidence that personality traits predict conditional patterns of if... then... association between situations and behavior. Finally, David Herold will present research on individual differences in the shaping and processing of feedback at work, and how differences in interpreting feedback affect important outcomes such as motivation and performance. Ben Schneider will serve as a discussant for the symposium.