The dark side of work values
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The dark side of work values Adrian Furnham 1,2 & Ian MacRae 1
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract The current study investigates dark-side personality traits correlates of the revised Work Values Questionnaire (WVQ) which has two main factors (Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation) and each having three sub-factors. Participants also completed the Coolidge Axis-II Inventory (SCATI: Coolidge 2001) which measures fourteen sub-clinical personality disorders (PDs), and they rated their IQ and EQ. Males and younger people rated Recognition positively and Security negatively as work motivational factors. Regressions indicated that the PDs were more associated with Intrinsic Motivators, particularly Recognition and Affiliation. When the PDs were clustered according to DSM-V (APA 2015) guidelines it appeared that Cluster A was negatively, and Cluster B positively, associated with Intrinsic Motivation at domain and facet level. Implications and limitations are considered. Keywords Personality disorders . Intrinsic . Extrinsic motivation . Recognition . Affiliation
Introduction Work values are individual judgments about the importance or relevance of actions and outcomes in the work-place. They are based on needs, acquired through experience, and the basis of transitional life goals. Values can and do significantly influence goal setting and decision making. Furthermore, they are closely related to work motivation. Further, they have been for many researchers the best way to measure motivation (Hogan and Hogan 1999). This study concerns the sub-clinical personality disorders (also called dark-side traits) correlates of work values. The dark-side concept was pioneered by Robert Hogan and is now in wide use (Furnham and Pendleton 2016).
Work Values There have been various attempts to examine the relationship between Bbright-side^ personality measures and values, mainly
* Adrian Furnham [email protected] 1
Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London WC1H0A, UK
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Norwegian Business School (BI), Nydalveien, Olso, Norway
using the Holland measure of vocational preference (Costa et al. 1984; De Fruyt and Mervielde 1997; Goh and Leong 1993; Schinka et al. 1997; Tokar and Swanson 1995). There have also been studies on the relationship between personality and the Hogan measure of work values (MVPI) (Hogan and Hogan 1999; an inventory of ten core occupational values). A number of studies have looked at the correspondence between the Big Five and the Holland RIASEC model. Costa et al. (1984) found Neuroticism correlated weakly with the Artistic type in men, and negatively with the Social type in women. Extroversion was strongly positively correlated with the Enterprising type and negatively correlated with the Conventional type. Openness was strongly positively correlated with the Artistic type and negatively correlated with the Conventional type. . Further, the authors pointed out that one dimension missing from
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