Workplace mavericks: How personality and risk-taking propensity predicts maverickism

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Gardiner, Elliroma
Jackson, Chris J
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2012
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We examine the relationship between lateral preference, the Five-Factor Model of personality, risk-taking propensity, and maverickism. We take an original approach by narrowing our research focus to only functional aspects of maverickism. Results with 458 full-time workers identify lateral preference as a moderator of the neuroticism-maverickism relationship. Extraversion, openness to experience, and low agreeableness were also each found to predict maverickism. The propensity of individuals high in maverickism to take risks was also found to be unaffected by task feedback. Our results highlight the multifaceted nature of ...
View more >We examine the relationship between lateral preference, the Five-Factor Model of personality, risk-taking propensity, and maverickism. We take an original approach by narrowing our research focus to only functional aspects of maverickism. Results with 458 full-time workers identify lateral preference as a moderator of the neuroticism-maverickism relationship. Extraversion, openness to experience, and low agreeableness were also each found to predict maverickism. The propensity of individuals high in maverickism to take risks was also found to be unaffected by task feedback. Our results highlight the multifaceted nature of maverickism, identifying both personality and task conditions as determinants of this construct.
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View more >We examine the relationship between lateral preference, the Five-Factor Model of personality, risk-taking propensity, and maverickism. We take an original approach by narrowing our research focus to only functional aspects of maverickism. Results with 458 full-time workers identify lateral preference as a moderator of the neuroticism-maverickism relationship. Extraversion, openness to experience, and low agreeableness were also each found to predict maverickism. The propensity of individuals high in maverickism to take risks was also found to be unaffected by task feedback. Our results highlight the multifaceted nature of maverickism, identifying both personality and task conditions as determinants of this construct.
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Journal Title
British Journal of Psychology
Volume
103
Issue
4
Copyright Statement
© 2012 British Psychological Society. Published by Wiley-Blackwell. This is the pre-peer-reviewed version of the following article: Workplace mavericks: How personality and risk-taking propensity predicts maverickism, British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 103(4), 2012, pp. 497-519, which has been published in final form at dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02090.x.
Subject
Industrial and organisational psychology (incl. human factors)
Cognitive and computational psychology