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Psychology

HIM 1990-2015

2013

Arrogance; Fairness; Greed avoidance; Hexaco; Honesty humility; Modesty; Sincerity; Wars; Workplace arrogance

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Personality And Interpersonal Aspects Of The Work Environment, Roseann Swiden Wick May 2013

Personality And Interpersonal Aspects Of The Work Environment, Roseann Swiden Wick

HIM 1990-2015

Workplace arrogance has emerged as a research focus area for many industrial-organizational psychologists. Employees who demonstrate arrogance tend to demonstrate poor job performance, executive failure and poor overall organizational success. The present study investigates arrogance measured by the Workplace Arrogance Scale (WARS: Johnson et al., 2010) in relation to the Honesty Humility facet of the HEXACO Personality Index-Revised (HEXACO PI-R: LEE & Ashton, 2004). A total of 273 participants completed the WARS and HEXACO PI-R Honesty-Humility Facet of the HEXACO. Results show significant, strong negative correlations between the Honesty-Humility subfacets and the overall Honesty Humility facet score with the WARS …