Question Details

MGT 585 Week 3 Individual Behavior Assignment

Instructions

1.	Complete the Big 5 Personality questionnaire that is available on the following website: http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/ (as listed on page 60 of your text book). 
a.	Your score will be calculated for you. 
b.	I heeded the suggestion and rated another person while I rated myself and I feel like the results were very accurate. 

2.	Read the article, “Personality Research in the Organizational Sciences” (pages 3-13 only) in order to gain a better understand of the Big 5 personality traits.  It is located in the Individual Behavior folder of doc sharing within eCollege
3.	Read two additional journal articles focused on topics related to personality
a.	Consider the following keywords for your search:  
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism	Big Five
Five Factor Model
Personality
Proactive Personality
Self-Efficacy

4.	Provide a literature review (detailed summary) of the two journal articles in Step 3.
5.	Discuss your personality type and whether or not it fits well with your current job/occupation. If you are not currently working, discuss which type of job/occupation would be a good match for your personality. 
a.	No need to share your actual scores. It is acceptable to just state that you scored high, moderate, or low on a dimension (or dimensions), and then discuss how it fits (or does not fit) with your job. 

Additional Tips:
Be thorough in your literature reviews (convince me that you read and understand the information provided within the journal articles). Include the full citations for your references on your Reference page at the end of your analysis. You will be evaluated in accordance with the grading rubric provided at the end of this document. 

NOTE: My grading of these cases will be largely holistic and comparative. If one student submits a case that is 10 pages long, includes an in-depth review of the articles, and is well-written, that student- grade will be dramatically higher than a student who submits 5 pages, a shallow review of the articles, and has a bunch of spelling and grammar errors. I reward A-level work and appreciate and value those students who are willing to go above and beyond and put an extreme amount of effort into their work. If you do the bare minimum to just scrape by in this class, your grade will reflect that. I expect a lot out of my graduate students, just as your current (or future) employers/customers expect out of you. 

Reading and summarizing the journal articles require a substantial amount of work and you will get frustrated at times. Just put in the effort and it will pay off in the end. Always try to work ahead so that you don’t get into a bind at the last minute. These assignments will take longer than you think.
 

Only articles from the following list journal list will be accepted:
Academy of Management Journal	Journal of Organizational Change Management 
Academy of Management Review	Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Administrative Science Quarterly	Journal of Psychology
Business Ethics Quarterly	Journal of Vocational Behavior 
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice	Leadership and Organization Development Journal 
Human Relations	Leadership Quarterly
Human Resource Management	Management Decision
Journal of Applied Psychology	Organization Science
Journal of Business Ethics	Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Journal of Business Research	Organizational Dynamics 
Journal of Business Venturing	Organizational Research Methods
Journal of Management	Personnel Psychology
Journal of Organizational Behavior	Strategic Management Journal
* Exceptions to this list must be approved by the professor prior to using them in your paper

Using ABI/Inform Search Syntax

www.tamuc.edu/library
Click Research Guides (under the big circular button on the left)
Click Business & Entrepreneurship (under the section, Research Guides by College)
Click ABI/INFORM Global (under the section, College of Business & Entrepreneurship Databases)
At this point, you may need to login.
Once logged in, click Command Line under Advanced Search

Copy/Paste the syntax below.  It basically tells the database, “Give me articles from these journals that have the phrase “personality” in either the title or abstract, and only from the year 2010 or greater.”

For your search, just change the phrase “personality” to whatever you want to search. The “quotation marks” make the database only return exact phrases, so try with and without the quotation marks around your search phrase.

TI,AB(“personality”) AND pub.exact((“Human Relations“ OR "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" OR "Academy of Management Review" OR "Academy of Management Journal" OR "Journal of Management" OR "Journal of Applied Psychology" OR "Journal of Psychology" OR "Administrative Science Quarterly" OR "Journal of Organizational Change Management " OR "Journal of Business Research" OR "Organizational Research Methods" OR "Management Decision" OR "Personnel Psychology" OR "Journal of Organizational Behavior" OR "Strategic Management Journal" OR "Organization Science" OR "Journal of Vocational Behavior " OR "Leadership and Organization Development Journal " OR "Organizational Dynamics " OR "Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes" OR "Leadership Quarterly" OR "Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice" OR "Human Resource Management" OR "Journal of Business Venturing" OR "Business Ethics Quarterly" OR "Journal of Business Ethics")) AND YR(>=2005) 
 
	Exceeds Standards	Meets 
Standards	Fails to Meet Standards
Literature Review of the Managerial Topic—Reference Support

I will consider how detailed your literature review is, and whether you address many of the current and critical issues for the topic.
	Provides a complete and clear review of the scholarly journal literature. 	Provides a substantial and clear review of the scholarly journal literature. 	Provides an incomplete review of the journal literature that fails to support the essay. 

Score: 	(40-36)	(35-28)	(27 or below)
Supported Recommendations Regarding the Best Approaches for Handling the Problematic Issues within the company

Do not discuss the specific names of people/organizations.  	Thoroughly discusses and evaluates the personality dimension(s), providing convincing and supported arguments based on their experience and the information from the journal articles.
	Discusses and evaluates the personality dimension(s), providing supported arguments, but could have gone into a bit more depth.


	Fails to discuss and evaluate the personality dimension(s), does not provide convincing or supported arguments, and lacks a significant degree of depth.


Score: 	(40-36)	(35-28) 	(27 or below)
Overall Quality of Written Communication

Paper Formatting Turnitin Similarity Rating
Grammar
	Student presented a well-written, coherent analysis that was free from any grammar and/or spelling errors.	Student presented a well-written, coherent analysis that contained a few minor errors.	Student presented an incoherent analysis that contained several errors.