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It could but it doesn't - you'd have to see the data
In general effectiveness improved with extraversion.
Interestingly, managers all rated high on extraversion, but there was a
lot of other data that was correlated... I don't remember all the
numbers by memory - but not all managers with high extraversion rated
effective... It was really interesting
Deborah
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If "effectiveness improves with extroversion," doesn't that mean that
the most extroverted employees are the most effective ones?
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> No, Managers had the highest extroversion rating
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> Management and effectiveness did not necessarily correlate
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> > ... When I correlated professional practice to the personality
> > characteristics, it appeared that effectiveness improved with
> > extroversion, with managers being the most extroverted...
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> Managers are the most effective employees?
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