The Personality of MBA's Who Reach General Management Early

Effects of an MBA and socioeconomic origins on business school graduates' salaries.

“…Faced with a surplus of candidates wanting admission, predictors of success can be used to select those who are more likely to do well as a consequence of completing the MBA training. The predictors used have been grades (Weinstein & Srinivasan, 1974;Harrell & Harrell, Note 1), scores on standardized achievement tests (Harrell & Harrell,Note 1), and various personality dimensions (Harrell, 1969(Harrell, , 1970Harrell & Harrell, 1973;Note 1).…”

The Use of the MMPI as a Measure of Personal Adjustment in Career Counseling

“…This practice is based on the &dquo;birds-of-a-feather&dquo; assumption that different occupations attract and/or foster unique personality characteristics and, hence, the closer the match between applicant characteristics and the prototype of successful incumbent characteristics, the higher the likelihood of job success (Katzell, 1964). Examples of such studies over the past two decades include fire fighters (Arvey, Mussio, & Payne, 1972), law enforcement and corrections officers (Azen, Snibbe, & Montgomery, 1973;Hooke & Krause, 1971;Peterson & Branson, 1986;Soloway, Hays, & Zieben, 1976), counselor trainees (Bonynge & Hoffman, 1977;Schoenfield, Preston, & Adams, 1976), nurses (Burgess, Duffey, & Temple, 1972), military training cadets (Callan, 1972), physician's assistants (Crovitz, Huse, & Lewis, 1973), skydivers (Delk, 1973), and managers (Harrell & Harrell, 1973). Finally, many studies have been reported using MMPI scores as predictors of job performance for a wide variety of occupational groups.…”

The Effects of Graduate Management Training on Subsequent Job Success: A Longitudinal Study

“…In addition, the few studies that have investigated the efficacy of such courses have not been concerned with their long-term consequences, but with the prediction of such 'internal' criteria as course grades, (Harell and Harrell, 1973;Williams and Harrell, 1964) scores on achievement tests (Pallett and Hoyt, 1968) and various personality dimensions considered necessary for success as a manager (Harrell, 1969(Harrell, , 1970. Moreover, the only two previous studies that have tried to predict later management success from performance on such post-graduate courses have produced inconsistent results.…”