Rebekka Sputtek sheds light upon the question of how the personality and emotional traits of executives influence their decision making and leadership behavior. While recent strategic management research has started to recognize the relevance of an executive's personality traits as antecedents of organizational outcomes, this stream has called for a more fine-grained clarification of the psychological processes underlying executive decision making. In order to contribute to the understanding of these processes, a holistic model integrating the role of an expedient set of personality variables and anger in executive’s decision making comprehensiveness as well as authenticity of transformational leadership is developed.

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St. Gallen, Switzerland

Rebekka Sputtek

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Rebekka Sputtek is research associate at the Institute of Management (IfB) at the University of St.Gallen (HSG).

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Book Title: Opening the Black Box
Book Subtitle: The Role of Personality and Anger in Executives’ Decision Making and Leadership
Authors: Rebekka Sputtek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-3925-8
Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8349-3924-1Published: 17 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-8349-3925-8Published: 20 May 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 128
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Electronics, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, IT & Software, Materials & Steel, Pharma, Telecommunications

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Narcissism, Core Self Evaluation and Sensitivity to Criticism on the Executive Level - How do Executive‘s Personalities and Anger Influence their Decision Making and Leadership Behavior?

Anger on the Executive Suite – Towards a Theory Linking Core Self Evaluation and Hypersensitive Narcissism to Individual Decision Making Comprehensiveness considering the Role of Environmental Dynamism

The mediating Role of Anger in the Relationship between Executive’s Core Self Evaluation and their Individual Decision Making Comprehensiveness: Empirical Evidence

Overall Discussion and Conclusion

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