Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 13 Issue 8

Workplace drug testing: avoiding the testing addiction

Leanne Jardine‐Tweedie, Phillip C. Wright

This paper discusses the use of drugs in the workplace with particular enphasis on the practice of drug testing, outlining arguments, both for and against. We conclude that drug…

Cognitive style and team role preference

Stephen G. Fisher, K W.D., John Wong

Team role preference, as formulated by Meredith Belbin, and cognitive style are both rooted in personality. As a consequence, it should be possible to successfully hypothesise…

Projective identification in management education

Mark Stein

Projective identification occurs when an individual or group, unable to bear certain features of their own reality, unconsciously splits these features off and projects them into…

Personality profiles of managers in former Soviet countries: Problem and remedy

Mark Cook, Alison Young, Dean Taylor, Amanda O’Shea, Marina Chitashvili, Virgis Lepeska, Gintaras Choumentauskas, Oleg Ventskovsky, Sonja Hermochova, Pavel Uhlar

The research investigates the possibility that people in managerial positions in organisations in the former Soviet Union may not match western models of management, and may not…

The circles of time: An exploratory study in measuring temporal perceptions within organizations

Reva Berman Brown, Richard Herring

The temporal aspects of strategy and decision making have not, until recently, been accorded the importance they deserve. This paper describes a study undertaken to measure the…