360-degree Feedback and Personality

Kaiser, R.B., & Craig, S.B. (2002, April). 360-degree Feedback and Personality at the Crossroads. Symposium presented at the 17th annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Toronto, Ontario.

The surge in popularity of 360-degree feedback has taken place during a revival of interest in the role of personality in organizations. This session if for those who use both types of assessment tools together—especially in management develop. Topics include the complex, curvilinear relationship between managers’ personality characteristics and ratings of their performance; how the personality of raters interacts with rating format and degree of anonymity to effect rating accuracy; how interpersonal incompetence—the “dark side” of personality”—is related to performance problems, and research-based guidance on the responsible use of the MBTI alongside 360s.

Featuring:

Nonlinearity in Personality-Performance Relationships:  An Examination of Source Effects
David V. Day & John Hausknecht, Pennsylvania State University

Rater Personality, Rating Format, and Social Context: Implications for Performance Appraisal Accuracy
Gunna Yun, Nicole M. Dudley, Lisa M. Donahue, & Lynn A. McFarland, George Mason University

Flawed Interpersonal Strategies and Multisource Feedback
William D. Fleming & Brent D. Holland, Hogan Assessment Systems
Construct Validity of the MBTI in Management Development:  A Tale of Two Interpretations
Rob Kaiser & S. Bartholomew Craig, Kaplan DeVries Inc.

Discussant
Robert T. Hogan, Hogan Assessment Systems

Download all slides in session:
360-Personality(Kaiser&Craig2002).zip

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