Broad and narrow personality traits for predicting managerial success

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 177-199

  Bergner, Sabine ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a   Kreuzthaler, Armin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Big five; Broad traits; Fidelity; Job performance; Managers; Narrow traits; Success

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951059449     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13594320902819728     Document Type: Article

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