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@article{Lounsbury2008PersonalityTA, title={Personality traits and career satisfaction of human resource professionals}, author={John W. Lounsbury and Robert P. Steel and Lucy W. Gibson and Adam W. Drost}, journal={Human Resource Development International}, year={2008}, volume={11}, pages={351 - 366}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:14747946}}
  • J. Lounsbury, Robert P. Steel, Adam W. Drost
  • Published 5 August 2008
  • Business, Psychology
  • Human Resource Development International

Occupational choice frameworks suggest that personality factors influence person-job fit. This paper focuses on personality factors and career satisfactions of human resources (HR) managers. ‘Big Five’ and narrow personality traits as well as managerial style variables were drawn from an archive of 1846 HR managers and 1375 non-managers. Results indicated that HR managers differed from 51,297 individuals in other occupations and from non-managerial HR specialists on many of the study variables…

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