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In this work, scholars cover issues such as teams, leadership, organizational climate and culture, organizational citizenship behaviour, work motivation, stress, and job satisfaction, and tells us what they know about these topics from a personality perspective. There are chapters on interactional psychology and work, personality and interests, some persistent measurement problems in personality assessment, and the relationship between personality and job performance. There are several overview chapters in the text - one provides a general survey of the landscape of personality theory and organizations, one presents a view of the European perspective on contemporary issues in personality research relevant to organizations in Europe, and one focuses on the origins of the book's title.

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This important and stimulating book deepens understanding of two areas of knowledge and their connection. Highly recommended. -CHOICE Overall, the book has a number of strengths. First, the editors provide a well-organized structure for the book and explain their objectives clearly. More important, the inclusion of fifteen chapters by different subject matter experts allows the book to meet the editors' objective of summarizing, critiquing, and integrating twenty-five years of research and theory....The author index is thorough, and the subject index is extremely detailed and useful. -Academy of Management Review ...the quality of writing is uniformly very good across the chapters....most of the chapters are well written, interesting, provocative, and fun to read. This book may be of interest to a broader audience than the publisher's advertisement suggests....this volume would appeal to many who have an interest in any of these topics. -Personnel Psychology To be sure, anyone who sets foot in organizations know that 'people matter', but our scholarly attention was diverted...Schneider and Smith have done us all a great service. The pulled together a terrific collection of original essays to inform us about what has been happening in personality psychology over these twenty-five years, and to show us how it all matters to life in organizations. -James P. Walsh University of Michigan This definitive book--written in a straightforward manner by preeminent behavioral scientists--explains cogently why understanding personality variables is critical for understanding the performance of the individual as well as the performance of the employing organization. -Gary Latham Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Rotman School of M

""This important and stimulating book deepens understanding of two areas of knowledge and their connection. Highly recommended."" —CHOICE ""Overall, the book has a number of strengths. First, the editors provide a well-organized structure for the book and explain their objectives clearly. More important, the inclusion of fifteen chapters by different subject matter experts allows the book to meet the editors' objective of summarizing, critiquing, and integrating twenty-five years of research and theory....The author index is thorough, and the subject index is extremely detailed and useful."" —Academy of Management Review ""...the quality of writing is uniformly very good across the chapters....most of the chapters are well written, interesting, provocative, and fun to read. This book may be of interest to a broader audience than the publisher's advertisement suggests....this volume would appeal to many who have an interest in any of these topics."" —Personnel Psychology ""To be sure, anyone who sets foot in organizations know that 'people matter', but our scholarly attention was diverted...Schneider and Smith have done us all a great service. The pulled together a terrific collection of original essays to inform us about what has been happening in personality psychology over these twenty-five years, and to show us how it all matters to life in organizations."" —James P. Walsh University of Michigan ""This definitive book--written in a straightforward manner by preeminent behavioral scientists--explains cogently why understanding personality variables is critical for understanding the performance of the individual as well as the performance of the employing organization."" —Gary Latham Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Rotman School of M

To be sure, anyone who sets foot in organizations know that 'people matter', but our scholarly attention was diverted...Schneider and Smith have done us all a great service. The pulled together a terrific collection of original essays to inform us about what has been happening in personality psychology over these twenty-five years, and to show us how it all matters to life in organizations.

This important and stimulating book deepens understanding of two areas of knowledge and their connection. Highly recommended. -CHOICE Overall, the book has a number of strengths. First, the editors provide a well-organized structure for the book and explain their objectives clearly. More important, the inclusion of fifteen chapters by different subject matter experts allows the book to meet the editors' objective of summarizing, critiquing, and integrating twenty-five years of research and theory....The author index is thorough, and the subject index is extremely detailed and useful. -Academy of Management Review ...the quality of writing is uniformly very good across the chapters....most of the chapters are well written, interesting, provocative, and fun to read. This book may be of interest to a broader audience than the publisher's advertisement suggests....this volume would appeal to many who have an interest in any of these topics. -Personnel Psychology To be sure, anyone who sets foot in organizations know that 'people matter', but our scholarly attention was diverted...Schneider and Smith have done us all a great service. The pulled together a terrific collection of original essays to inform us about what has been happening in personality psychology over these twenty-five years, and to show us how it all matters to life in organizations. -James P. Walsh University of Michigan This definitive book--written in a straightforward manner by preeminent behavioral scientists--explains cogently why understanding personality variables is critical for understanding the performance of the individual as well as the performance of the employing organization. -Gary Latham Secretary of State Professor of Organizational Effectiveness, Rotman School of M

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Benjamin Schneider, D. Brent Smith

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