PSYCHOLOGY 520  - INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND DIVERSITY

 
 

RICHARD MILLER, PH.D.                        

3048 GRH, 745-2450,  E-mail: richard.miller@wku.edu

COURSE WEBSITE:  http://edtech.wku.edu/~rmiller/SYLL520.htm                 

Spring 2012

 
TEXTBOOK:    No textbook will be required for this course. Materials used will be journal articles and reports pertinent to the topics covered. 

 
COURSE OBJECTIVE: This class will cover research and theory in aspects of human diversity, including topics such as personality, intelligence, gender, age,  motivation, and aptitudes. The course will place a strong emphasis on  work environments and strive to understand the impact of this theory and research on real-life organizational problems.  Additionally, This course will evolve throughout the semester. Consequently, this site will undergo frequent modification. Be sure you monitor it frequently.

 
CLASS ATTENDANCE: The university policies in respect to attendance will be followed. Frankly, in a graduate-level class, attendance is expected. I need your participation.  
 
STUDENT NEEDS:  We support the ADA requirements for providing for the special needs of identified, disabled students. If you have such needs, contact the ADA office on campus so we can provide an environment which fully enables your abilities. In compliance with university policy, students with disabilities who require accommodations (academic adjustments and/or auxiliary aids or services) for this course must contact the Office for Student Disability Services in DUC A-200 of the Student Success Center in Downing University Center .   The phone number is 745-5004.

Please DO NOT request accommodations directly from the professor or instructor without a letter of accommodation from the Office for Student Disability Services. 

 

COURSE GRADE: Your grade in this course will be determined by three integrative exams which are not cumulative in nature.  Exam 3 is a take-home exam.  By necessity, the sections of material are not always mutually exclusive; therefore, you cannot automatically disregard a prior unit's content after completion of the exam on it.  

 

3 exams @ 100 points/each = 300 points

1 class presentation @ 50 points = 50 points   Presentation topics

GRADES (Listed by the last four digits of your student ID number)


COURSE CONTENT:

       Section One: Sources of differences, Clinical disorders, Personality dimensions: Big Five,  DISC,  MBTI,  Machiavellianism,  Bandura's Self-Efficacy,  Type A personality,  Mischel's Situational personality, McAdams on the New Big 5, and others

 

Possible test questions for Exam 1 are constructed on the principle focus of our topics. The actual questions you receive may differ slightly  but will maintain the principle content.

 

TENTATIVE EXAM DATES:

      EXAM 1    ON MAR 12      Possible test questions (may be further amended)                              
      EXAM 2    ON APR 16       Possible test questions (may be further amended) 

      EXAM 3    FINALS WEEK    


Links and resources of interest:

APA Style Guide from Purdue University 
Today in the history of  Psychology

 

Quick Overview of Selected Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 

 

McLean's Self-Assessment Instrument  Alan A. McLean's chapter in Work Stress (1979 Addison-Wesley Series on Occupational Stress)

 

Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Resolution

http://www.kilmann.com/conflict.html  Thomas-Kilmann website

http://www.leadingpeople.co.uk/Psychometrics.asp  A brief overview of the interpretation of the instrument

Assessing the Conflict Resolution Profiles of Emerging Information Systems Professionals  Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode instrument is used

Conflict Resolution in the Asian-Pacific region Another application of the Thomas-Kilmann 

 

Big Five

2012 Big 5 Meghan

Big 5 Luke and Brandon

 http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~sanjay/bigfive.html#whatisit   Measuring the Big Five  (Srivastava, U of Oregon)

2010 Big 5 by David and Mike

2011 Big Five Dave

 

A New Big Five  McAdams and Pals in American Psychologist, April 2006

 

Big Five and Teams

Big Five class presentation  (Alexander, Berry, Oatley)

 

 

Myers-Briggs   

http://www.buffalostate.edu/orgs/cbir/bibliographies/mbti.asp  Resources on Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (1988- )

http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/learning/MBTI.htm   An overview of the Myers-Briggs

http://harvey.psyc.vt.edu/Documents/BIGFIVE.pdf  1995 SIOP paper 

http://harvey.psyc.vt.edu/Documents/BessHarveySwartzSIOP2003.pdf   2003 SIOP paper 

http://www.datehookup.com/content-personality-test-resource-center.htm   Numerous links to personality, including the MBTI 

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Score Reliability Across: Studies a Meta-Analytic Reliability Generalization

Using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to study managers: a literature review and research agenda

Class MBTI�  presentation by Sides and Brown

Jill and Ron's MBTI class presentation

Jennifer 2012 MBTI  Class Presentation

 

16 PF

16 PF  Pearson site

16 PF Wikipedia description

Texas A&M Personnel study

16PF Cattell & Mead

 

Zuckerman's Sensation-Seeking Scale  (McAdams, pp. 318-319)

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/tests/driverqualificationtest/sensationseekingscale/   A self-scoring form of the scale

http://epm.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/62/4/728   2002 Ed and Psych Measurement article on SSS reliability

A review of behavioral and biological correlates of sensation-seeking

Kristen 2012 Sensation-Seeking

 

Self-Monitoring  (McAdams, pp. 607-609)

Brief description of self-monitoring 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12002965&dopt=Abstract   Self-monitoring

         personality at work: a meta-analytic investigation of construct validity. J Appl Psychol. 2002 Apr;87(2):390-401

Effects of self-monitoring on technical, contextual, and assignment-specific performance

http://gom.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/25/2/154  abstract from Day article in Group & Organization Management, 

         Vol. 25, No. 2, 154-174 (2000)

Day, D. V., & Kilduff, M. (2003). Self-monitoring personality and work relationships: Individual differences in social networks. 

         In M. R. Barrick & A. M. Ryan (Eds.), Personality and work: Reconsidering the role of personality in organizations (pp. 205-228).

         San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (no link)

 

 

Machiavelli (Mach IV)

http://cobacourses.creighton.edu/MAM/2004/papers/Reimers_OBPROC_103.doc   Paper on Mach scale

Machiavellianism class presentation (Polson and Yanul) 

2010 Machiavellianism (Nick and Keaton)

2011 Machiavellianism (Abby)

Sarah 2012 Machiavellianisn 

 

Mischel

Mischel's Situational Personality   Hall and Simmons presentation ('08)

Mischel PowerPoint seen in class (2009)

 

Locus of Control

http://psych.fullerton.edu/jmearns/rotter.htm  General overview of Rotter's theory

 

 

Type A Personality

Longitudinal study of Type A and morbidity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_psychology

http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Type_A_Behavior

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_A_and_Type_B_personality_theory

http://www.mindpub.com/art208.htm  Anger and hostility are the problems for Type A personality

Type A Inventory (20 items, quick-and-dirty)

 

Type D Personality 

http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/98/5/323  A new personality dimension at risk for cardiac malfunction

 

Bandura's Self-Efficacy and Reciprocal Determinism

http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/self-efficacy.html   ( a complete site of links on self-efficacy)

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/soccog/soccog.html  A simplified look at reciprocal determinism

Bandura's theory  (Pajares, Emory University)

Caley 2012 Bandura Presentation

 

ENNEAGRAN1     ENNEAGRAN2     ENNEAGRAN3

 

 

Notes from class

BIG5.DOC,   MISCHEL.DOC (McAdams, pp. 283-298)

 

Handbook of Intelligence - Social Intelligence

 

Emotional Intelligence

http://www.eiconsortium.org/ An EI-Based Theory of Performance

Jeff's class presentation on Emotional Intelligence

2009 EI presentation

Katie's EI presentation

 

Hogan Personality Inventory

http://www.hoganassessments.com/_HoganWeb/Documents/How%20to%20Measure%20Sociopolitical%20IQ.PDF  Hogan's Sociopolitical  Intelligence Quotient (SPIQ)

 

 

Situational Leadership

LEAD.ppt   Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership

Situational Leadership theory: a Critical View  Graeff critique on situational leadership instrument

A Test of Situational Leadership theory  the Weitzel and Green assessment of the theory

 

General Mental Ability (GMA)

GMA (Schmidt and Hunter)

2009 GMA presentation

Wall Street Journal - Mainstream Intelligence

2010 GMA presentation

2011 Manning presentation

 

Creativity

Amabile Academy of Management Journal article

creativity.pdf   2004 Annual Review of Psychology chapter on creativity by Runco

http://www.careerperfect.com/content/career-planning-work-preference-inventory  A quick electronic Work Preference Inventory

wpi.pdf  WPI used in Conti study

CREATIVITY AND WORK

Kaizan  a change process utilizing diversity

Creativity 2009

 

Worker Motivation

Ashley's presentation

 

Neural Basis of Differences

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html  Neuroscience for kids: Explore the nervous system

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/heshe.html  Neuroscience for kids: He-She

http://www.hbdi.com/Resources/WhitePapers/index.cfm  Herrmann Brain Dominance Inventory

MacLean's Triune theory    A critique of Paul MacLean's Triune theory of brain function

http://college.hmco.com/instructors/ins_teachtech_foundations_module_thinkstyles_printerfriendly.html  Houghton Mifflin training site for HBDI

http://www.cda-acd.forces.gc.ca/CFLI/engraph/research/pdf/43.pdf  Thinking Styles and the Impact on Military Leadership Practices
http://www.odportal.com/personality/benziger.htm  Benziger's personality and brain type

http://www.benziger.org/the-btsa.html BTSA

 

Aging Workforce
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03307.pdf  Policies of other nations to increase labor force participation GAO report (Report to the

          Ranking Minority Member, Special Committee on Aging, U.S. Senate)

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/310861_retirement_no16.pdf  Letting older workers work

http://www.quintcareers.com/older_worker_myths.html  Myths about older workers
Melisa and Marcie's presentation

Lindsey's 2011 Gender-Age presentation

 

Human Mate Guarding

David Buss article

 

Gender and Leadership

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpsoc/joop/1999/00000072/00000003/art00004  Gender differences in leadership style, job 

        stress and mental health in male - and female - dominated industries
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc/97-104.pdf#search='brain%20gender%20differences%20leadership'   Gender Differences and

           Leadership from a War College perspective

gender anger.pdf 

Age and Gender Diversity 2009

Li's 2010 Age and Gender Diversity presentation

 

Cross-Cultural Leadership

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/677.pdf   Cross-cultural research on organizational leadership

http://www.geert-hofstede.com/  Geert Hofstede™ Cultural Dimensions

http://geert-hofstede.international-business-center.com/mcsweeney.shtml  Dimensions and business etiquette

Research on leadership in a cross-cultural context: Making progress, and raising new questions  Article by Dickson, Den Hartog, Mitchelson

2009 Gruchala Grant Cross Cultural Leadership 

Heather and Crystal's 2010 Cross-Cultural presentation

 

Organizational Trust

Mayer et al.  Trust article 

Creating a High Trust Organization (John Mackey - CEO Whole Foods Market)

Building and Repairing Trust

 

Appreciative Inquiry

A positive revolution in change: Appreciative Inquiry   Davis Cooperrider and Diana Whitney at Case Western

Appreciative Inquiry Commons  Link to numerous AI subjects

http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/  David Cooperrider's site with his theory of positive change and organizational leadership

 

Leadership Models

http://www.businessballs.com/leadership.htm

 

http://www.laborunionresources.org/knowyourrights.html  Labor union resources

 

 

Training Exercises

Chipping In  An exercise in recognizing abilities and managing resources for optimal return

Zin Obelisk  training exercise

 

Differences in Organizations

520 Employee Empowerment

520 Motivation and Leadership Styles

http://www.motivation-tools.com/workplace/leadership_styles.htm

Why TQM Fails

A strong example of a very transparent organization  HCL’s ‘Employee First’ management innovations

The psychological contract

 

Transparent Organizations

 Transparent Org.doc   Microsoft White Paper on transparent organizations achieved through IT

 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/company-blogs-bring-radical-transparency.html  Power of blogs to encourage transparency

 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/08/company-blogs-bring-radical-transparency.html trust and transparency

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing   Lean manufacuting

 

Team Development and Evaluation

Ohio State University Human Resources team evaluation form     Team Development Wheel

 

 

 

BF     TK Uses     Lutts and Mips     Sales Ice Breaker    DISC


 
Revised 2/2/11