The Big Five and Organizational Virtue
本文考察大五人格特质(外向性、宜人性、尽责性、神经质、开放性)对组织美德研究的启示,通过检验各特质是否符合美德标准,发现宜人性和尽责性有实证支持为组织美德,开放性虽证据不足但仍有论证支持。
Recent developments in personality research point to an alchemy of character composed of five elements: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience. This paper surveys this research for its implications to the study of the virtues in organizational ethics. After subjecting each of these five character traits to several tests as to what constitutes a virtue, the empirical evidence supports an organizational virtue of agreeableness and an organizational virtue of conscientiousness. Although the empirical evidence falls short, an argument is mobilized on behalf of an additional organizational virtue of openness to experience.