THE PERSONALITY OF HIGH EARNING MBA'S IN BIG BUSINESS¹

Abstract

Summary AN effort was made to find personal qualifications that might be predictive of earnings in business. A follow‐up by questionnaire five years after graduation was made for members of three MBA classes who had previously taken an eleven‐instrument battery. Ninety percent responded. A comparison of the highest third and the lowest in terms of present compensation showed 13 differences at the .05 level of significance or higher among 55 predictor variables. At the .01 level were second year Graduate School of Business grade point average (GPA), Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) Personnel and Management Orientation scales, Guilford‐Zimmerman Ascendance, Ghiselli's Decision Making and Initiative (from his Self‐Description Inventory), and the Individual Background Survey. Hours of work and job satisfaction were greater for high earners.

An Empirical Investigation of the Predictors of Executive Career Success

“…Figure 1 shows a link between objective and subjective career success. Based on past research which has found that objective and subjective career success are positively related (Bray & Howard, 1980;Harrell, 1969;, we believe that objective success will positively predict subjective career success. Although the causal direction of this relationship could be argued to be reciprocal, in this study we assume that objective career success predicts subjective success for several reasons.…”

“…Wolfle (1973) concluded that most studies have not adequately considered the role of motivation in predicting earnings, and Whitely et al (1991) (Cox & Cooper, 1989;Gutteridge, 1973;Harrell, 1969;Whitely et al, 1991). In the present study, we assessed not only the number of hours worked per week, but also the number of evenings worked.…”

“…In fact, past research generally has found that objective and subjective success are positively but moderately related (Bray & Howard, 1980;Harrell, 1969;.…”

The Relationship of Career Mentoring to Early Career Outcomes

“…However, researchers have also recognized that managers' and professionals' career mobility and financial rewards are often, at least partly, allocated on the basis of informal interpersonal processes (Coates and Pellegrin 1957;Pfeffer 1977 (Dreher et al 1985;Harrell 1969;Pfeffer 1977;Weinstein and Srinivasan 1974). The exception to this observation is the study conducted by Whitely et al (1991).…”

Profil psychologique des étudiants canadiens-français au M.B.A. : conséquences pour une politique de sélection

“…Plusieurs études (Harrell, 1969 ;Pietrowski et Rock, 1963 ;Smoley et Slivinski, 1971 ;Wald et Doty, 1965) • Dominateurs, ascendants, agressifs (Livingston, Ghiselli) • Autonomes, indépendants (Haire et al)…”