Validity of socioeconomic origin as a predictor of executive success.

Porter, Albert

doi:10.1037/h0020580

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“…In addition to the many studies in the last century that have focused on predictors of successful job performance for specific jobs or organizations (see Ployhart, Schmitt, & Tippins, 2017 ) , significant progress has been made in understanding how and what types of individuals achieve career success more generally. Reflecting the idea that career success is manifested in different ways, researchers have operationalized career success with a broad set of objective (i.e., earnings, occupational prestige, educational attainment, budget responsibilities) and subjective measures (i.e., job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and career satisfaction) (e.g., Childs & Klimoski, 1986 ; Judge & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2012 ; Porter, 1965 ; Wakabayashi, Graen, Graen, & Graen, 1988 ; Wolff & Moser, 2009) .…”

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100 years of applied psychology research on individual careers: From career management to retirement.

Wang¹,

Wanberg²

2017

Journal of Applied Psychology

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This article surveys 100 years of research on career management and retirement, with a primary focus on work published in the Journal of Applied Psychology. Research on career management took off in the 1920s, with most attention devoted to the development and validation of career interest inventories. Over time, research expanded to attend to broader issues such as the predictors and outcomes of career interests and choice; the nature of career success and who achieves it; career transitions and adaptability to change; retirement decision making and adjustment; and bridge employment. In this article, we provide a timeline for the evolution of the career management and retirement literature, review major theoretical perspectives and findings on career management and retirement, and discuss important future research directions. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Section: Key Research Questions and Influential Findingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

100 years of applied psychology research on individual careers: From career management to retirement.

Wang¹,

Wanberg²

2017

Journal of Applied Psychology

155

129

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“…However, Bernile, Bhagwat, and Rau (2017) argued and found that CEOs who had been exposed to moderate fatalities as a result of a natural disaster were likely to be more risk-seeking compared with those who had not had such exposure. In one of the early works on the topic of background, Porter (1965) examined socioeconomic origin and found positive relationships with indicators of executive career success. Stern and Westphal (2010) found that subtle forms of flattery and opinion conformity were successful tactics for directors aiming at obtaining board seats and that those with a background in politics, law, or sales or an upper-class background were more successful at engaging in such behaviors.…”

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The Background on Executive Background: An Integrative Review

Campbell

Bilgili

Crossland

et al. 2022

Journal of Management

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This study reviews several decades of research on the topic of executive background, defined here as the total of an executive's “experience, knowledge, and education.” We consider work from both management and nonmanagement sources and from both macro and micro sources within management. Our review of 216 published empirical articles is structured around a series of widely studied executive background characteristics and categories, including tenure, functional background, knowledge and education, outsider/insider status, other professional experiences, and experiences outside the workplace. This narrative review is underpinned and informed by an inductively derived framework comprised of five key dimensions that represent distinct ways in which specific experiences can be conceptualized: visibility, timing, frequency, discreteness, and agency. We conclude our narrative review with a quantitative, bibliometric analysis illustrating some of the key patterns within the most recent work in this domain. Finally, we use the insights arising from our review to provide a set of theoretical and methodological recommendations for future work in this area.

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“…During previous efforts to define leadership, the social and psychological characteristics of leaders were investigated. The results of the studies dealing with social backgrounds of individuals indicated that the leaders were from higher socioeconomic statuses (Porter, 1965) and had higher levels of intelligence (Pickle and Friedlander, 1967) and scholarship (Garrison, 1933) than nonleaders. Leaders were also found to score higher than nonleaders on measures of personal characteristics.…”

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Clothing Influence in Adolescent Leadership Roles

Morganosky

Creekmore

1981

Home Economics Research Journal

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The interrelationships between four clothing variables (clothing mode awareness, clothing mode conformity, prestige clothing, clothing attractiveness) and three measures of leadership (representational leadership, organizational leadership, composite leadership) were investi gated. The data were collected from a population consisting of the sophomore class of a cen tral Michigan high school containing 119 boys and 109 girls. Correlation coefficients and multiple regression were the major forms of statistical analyses used to determine the interrela tionships between the variables and to identify the clothing variables which were significant in explaining variation in leadership. Clothing attractiveness and clothing mode awareness were both significant in explaining variation in leadership, but clothing mode conformity was not.

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Validity of socioeconomic origin as a predictor of executive success.

Cited by 6 publications

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100 years of applied psychology research on individual careers: From career management to retirement.

100 years of applied psychology research on individual careers: From career management to retirement.

The Background on Executive Background: An Integrative Review

Clothing Influence in Adolescent Leadership Roles

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