8 research outputs found
It Works Without Words: A Nonlinguistic Ability Test of Perceiving Emotions with Job-Related Consequences
This is the final version. Available on open access from Hogrefe via the DOI in this recordEmotion recognition ability of emotions expressed by other people (ERA-O) can be important
for job performance, leadership, bargaining, and career success. Traditional personnel
assessment tools of this ability, however, are contaminated by linguistic skills. In a time of
global work migration, more and more people speak a language at work that is not their mother
tongue. Consequently, we developed and validated the Face-Based Emotion Matching Test
(FEMT), a nonlinguistic objective test of ERA-O in gainfully employed adults. We demonstrate
the FEMT’s validity with psychological constructs (cognitive and emotional intelligence, Big
Five personality traits) and its criterion validity and interethnic fit
What You See Is Not What You Get: Social Skill and Impulse Control Camouflage Machiavellianism
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Academy of Management via the DOI in this record.Recent studies found that social skill can transform negative workplace outcomes from dark triad traits (e.g., narcissism, psychopathy) into positive outcomes. Going one step further, we hypothesized that social skill would effectively mask Machiavellianism with dire consequences for organizations and coworkers if additionally combined with high impulse control in target Machiavellians. We tested our hypotheses in a triangular multisource design in two complementary workplace samples comprised of both target workers and coworkers with a total of N = 1,438 participants. In Sample 1, we found that high political skill and impulse control effectively masked and reinforced Machiavellians’ image building at work. The results of Sample 2 showed that when tenure was high, individuals high in Machiavellianism, political skill, and impulse control reported exponentially increased levels of counterproductive work behavior. Thus, what coworkers see is not what organizations and coworkers get in the long run. Implications and limitations are discussed
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SIGLETIB: RN 4852(90-34) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekDEGerman
It works without words: a nonlinguistic ability test of perceiving emotions with job-related consequences
Emotion recognition ability of emotions expressed by other people (ERA-O) can be important for job performance, leadership, bargaining, and career success. Traditional personnel assessment tools of this ability, however, are contaminated by linguistic skills. In a time of global work migration, more and more people speak a language at work that is not their mother tongue. Consequently, we developed and validated the Face-Based Emotion Matching Test (FEMT), a nonlinguistic objective test of ERA-O in gainfully employed adults. We demonstrate the FEMT’s validity with psychological constructs (cognitive and emotional intelligence, Big Five personality traits) and its criterion validity and interethnic fit
Political skill camouflages Machiavellianism: Career role performance and organizational misbehavior at short and long tenure
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this recordOn the basis of socioanalytic theory (Hogan & Shelton, 1998) and mimicry-deception theory
(Jones, 2014), we hypothesized that political skill would effectively mask Machiavellianism
(socioanalytic theory) with consequences for coworker perceived career role performance and
actual counterproductive work behavior at low and high levels of job tenure (mimicry-deception
theory). We tested our hypotheses in a triangular multisource design in two complementary
studies comprised of both target workers and coworkers with a total of N = 1438 participants.
In Study 1, we found that when political skill was high, targets received high career role
performance ratings from coworkers, and this was also the case when targets had high levels of
Machiavellianism (socioanalytic masking effect). For targets with low political skill, the career
role performance ratings of high Machiavellians was low at long tenure. The results of Study 2
partly disconfirmed mimicry-deception theory: Individuals high in Machiavellianism and high in
political skill did not tend to avoid engaging in overtly mean behaviors toward others and extracting organizational resources at short tenure. Implications and limitations are discussed