Looks Good on Paper? : Using In-Depth Personality Assessment to Predict Leadership Performance

Başlık:

Yazar:

Pratch, Leslie S., author.

ISBN:

9780231537643

Ek Yazar:

Pratch, Leslie S., author.

Fiziksel Tanım:

1 online resource(248 p.) : illustrations.

Series:

Columbia Business School Publishing

Columbia Business School Publishing.

Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The theory and Practice of active Coping -- 1. The Power of Active Coping -- 2. Predicting Performance -- 3. Coping Styles and Coping Holes -- 4. What Lies Beneath? -- 5. Integrity -- 6. Psychological Autonomy: Lemmings Need Not Apply -- 7. Integrative Capacity: Seeing Reality with Both Eyes Open -- 8. Catalytic Coping -- 9. Implications for Female Leaders -- Part II. Enhancing Your active Coping -- 10. Past Is Not Necessarily Prologue: Improving Your Active Coping -- 11. Self-Assessment for Strengthening Active Coping -- 12. Developing Active Coping: A Success Story -- 13. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Technical Companion to Chapter 3 -- Appendix B: Technical Companion to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Abstract:

Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirical method of identifying executives who will be effective within organizations--and to flag those who will ultimately fail--by evaluating hidden aspects of personality and character. Pratch compares candidates with impressive careers and tries to determine which are likely to act with consistently high integrity and exhibit sound, timely judgment when faced with unanticipated business problems. Central to effective leadership is a psychological quality called "active coping," which Pratch defines and explores by referencing case studies, historical figures, and her own scholarly work. This book speaks not only to those in hiring positions and their advisors but also more widely to leaders and anyone who wishes to learn more about their own character and the abilities of those around them. Pratch offers knowledge, asks questions, and challenges common perceptions, providing a practical tool for those in business and for the general reader.

Konu Terimleri:

Business & Economics -- Industrial Management.

Business & Economics -- Management Science.

Business & Economics -- Management.

Business & Economics -- Organizational Behavior.

Executives -- Psychology.

Executives -- Selection and appointment.

Leadership -- Psychological aspects.

Business Management.

Executive ability.

Human Resources, Labor Practice, Job and Career.

Management.

Personality assessment.

Social Sciences.

Business & Economics -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.

Electronic Access:

http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/prat16836
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Leslie S. Pratch is a practicing psychologist who focuses on assessing and coaching executives who occupy or are candidates for top positions in business organizations. In this book, she shares insights from more than twenty years of executive evaluations and offers an empirical method of identifying executives who will be effective within organizations--and to flag those who will ultimately fail--by evaluating hidden aspects of personality and character.

Pratch compares candidates with impressive careers and tries to determine which are likely to act with consistently high integrity and exhibit sound, timely judgment when faced with unanticipated business problems. Central to effective leadership is a psychological quality called "active coping," which Pratch defines and explores by referencing case studies, historical figures, and her own scholarly work. This book speaks not only to those in hiring positions and their advisors but also more widely to leaders and anyone who wishes to learn more about their own character and the abilities of those around them. Pratch offers knowledge, asks questions, and challenges common perceptions, providing a practical tool for those in business and for the general reader.

Author Notes

Leslie S. Pratch has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Northwestern University and an MBA in strategy and finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and has published a number of scholarly articles.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In her noteworthy first book, psychologist Pratch shares insights from decades of research and hiring assessments of executive candidates for major corporations. Pratch has developed and tested in-depth personality assessments to predict candidates' potential for effectiveness in high-level roles, including C-level positions, on behalf of boards of directors. Much of her work centers on "active coping," which she describes as "the healthiest response to stressful situations and the one most likely to lead to a successful resolution." Active coping is an attribute of a healthy personality structure, and includes such traits as awareness, courage, resiliency, energy and fortitude, resourcefulness, decisiveness, and ability to execute a plan. Through case studies of job candidates, as well as historical figures (Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill), she illustrates how those who are hiring can look beyond the resume or interview. Pratch shares success stories of candidates she's recommended, as well as misses. Any reader who has made a bad hiring decision will be intrigued by the methodologies employed, such as a storytelling technique that distinguished between CEOs "who were psychologically organized in a secure, resilient and self-satisfied way," and "those who revealed underlying areas of defensiveness and vulnerability." While this is an academic work, the author's findings will be appreciated by a general business audience. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Choice Review

Every leader can look good on paper; however, does it really prove a leader will be successful in a position? A practicing psychologist, Pratch shares insights from more than 20 years of executive evaluations in a book that details a lengthy personality assessment to assist in determining if a person can be successful in a position. The monograph is divided into three parts: theory and practice of active coping; self-assessment and development; and technical aspects of the model. The model comprises four components, and an individual needs all four to predict possible performance success. Chapters of this book should be read consecutively since each concept builds on the other. There are two caveats to the monograph. First, the study is limited to mostly white American men. Second, the participants for the study are individuals who passed the resumé screening for the various companies using the author's model. Predicting performance is complex, and no one model fits everyone and every circumstance. Throughout the book, there are examples of how the model was used to predict leadership success and failure, as well as leadership development. The book also contains two appendixes and a notes section. --William Anthony Garrett, University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville