Workplace coaching: testing whether personality traits and their ABCD components predict authentic self-development via affect balance

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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT Pub Date : 2022-08-16 DOI:10.1108/jmd-02-2022-0034

Tünde Erdös, J. Wilt, Michael Tichelmann

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PurposeLittle is known about how individual differences play out in the process of authentic self-development (ASD) through workplace coaching. This article explores whether the Big Five personality traits and affective, behavioral, cognitive and desire (ABCDs) components of the Big Five personality traits were relevant to ASD, specifically examining the role of affect as a potential mediator.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 176 clients' personality was assessed pre-coaching. Aspects of ASD (perceived competence, goal commitment, self-concordance and goal stability) were assessed post-coaching. Clients' affect balance (AB) scores were obtained post-session.FindingsMultilevel path models showed that higher levels of mean AB (but not the slope) mediated the associations between personality and perceived competence and goal commitment. Personality predicted goal self-concordance, but these effects were not mediated by AB, neither personality nor AB predicted goal stability.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors encourage randomized controlled trials to further test findings of this study. Ruling out method variance is not possible completely. However, the authors put forth considerations to support the authors' claim that method variance did not overly influence our results.Practical implicationsThese results suggest the necessity of an optimal experience of affect for ASD in workplace coaching and the understanding of how ABCDs, AB and ASD are related beyond coaching psychology.Social implicationsA deeper understanding of personality processes is important for fostering ASD to meet the challenges of management development in the authors' volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) world.Originality/valueThis is the first study to test personality as a process in workplace coaching linking personality to one of the most valued leadership skills: authenticity.

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工作场所辅导：测试人格特征及其ABCD组成部分是否通过情感平衡预测真实的自我发展

目的通过工作场所辅导，在真正的自我发展（ASD）过程中，人们对个体差异是如何表现的知之甚少。本文探讨了五大人格特征以及五大人格特质中的情感、行为、认知和欲望成分是否与ASD相关，特别是情感作为潜在中介的作用。设计/方法/方法总共有176名客户在辅导前进行了个性评估。指导后对ASD的各个方面（感知能力、目标承诺、自我和谐和目标稳定性）进行了评估。研究发现，多水平路径模型显示，较高水平的平均AB（而不是斜率）介导了人格与感知能力和目标承诺之间的关联。人格预测目标自洽性，但这些影响不受AB的调节，人格和AB都不预测目标稳定性。研究局限性/含义作者鼓励进行随机对照试验，以进一步检验本研究的结果。不可能完全排除方法差异。然而，作者提出了一些考虑因素来支持作者的说法，即方法方差不会过度影响我们的结果。实际含义这些结果表明，在工作场所辅导中，ASD有必要获得最佳的情感体验，并了解ABCD、AB和ASD在辅导心理学之外的关系。社会含义对人格过程的更深入理解对于培养ASD在作者的波动性、不确定性、复杂性和模糊性（VUCA）世界中应对管理发展的挑战非常重要。独创性/价值这是第一项测试人格作为工作场所辅导过程的研究，将人格与最有价值的领导技能之一：真实性联系起来。

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JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT-

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7.00

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9.70%

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期刊介绍： ■Competence-based management development ■Developing leadership skills ■Developing women for management ■Global management ■The new technology of management development The Journal of Management Development draws together the thinking and research relating to the role played by managers in their immediate environment, and the ways in which they can widen their responsibilities to take on larger roles. Many companies now appreciate that investment in management development helps to reduce costs, increase sales and improve productivity - so it"s well worth investigating.