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  • 1.  Measurement Instrument Mindsets

    Posted 09-25-2014 05:24

    --- apologies for any cross-postings ---

     

     

    Dear all,

     

    For a new research project I am setting up with my colleagues, we would like to include the concept of mindsets in our survey. This is a topic that, among others, Carol Dweck and Peter Heslin have been working on during the past few years. However, I cannot seem to find a validated measurement instrument for assessing these growth versus fixed mindsets. Does any of you know how to obtain this or does anyone have a validated measure for these mindsets themselves? We would be very grateful if you could share this with us.

     

    Many thanks in advance!

     

    Best,

    Jos

     

     

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior    

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU University Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | Room 2A-42

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     



  • 2.  Measurement Instrument Mindsets

    Posted 09-25-2014 07:24

    Jos,

    Measures for implicit personality and implicit intelligence beliefs (with their entity / fixed vs. incremental / growth extremes) can be found in the articles cited below. Best wishes,

    Dan

     

    Hong, Y.-y., Chiu, C.-y., Dweck, C. S., Lin, D. M.-S., & Wan, W. (1999). Implicit theories, attributions, and coping: A meaning system approach. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 77(3), 588-599.

    Levy, S. R., Stroessner, S. J., & Dweck, C. S. (1998). Stereotype formation and endorsement: The role of implicit theories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(6), 1421-1436.

     

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    Tel. 979.845.0348 │ Fax. 979.845.9641 │ Email: dchiaburu@mays.tamu.edu

    http://mays.tamu.edu/directory/employees/1042

     

     

     

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    --- apologies for any cross-postings ---

     

     

    Dear all,

     

    For a new research project I am setting up with my colleagues, we would like to include the concept of mindsets in our survey. This is a topic that, among others, Carol Dweck and Peter Heslin have been working on during the past few years. However, I cannot seem to find a validated measurement instrument for assessing these growth versus fixed mindsets. Does any of you know how to obtain this or does anyone have a validated measure for these mindsets themselves? We would be very grateful if you could share this with us.

     

    Many thanks in advance!

     

    Best,

    Jos

     

     

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior    

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU University Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | Room 2A-42

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     



  • 3.  Measurement Instrument Mindsets

    Posted 09-25-2014 07:35
    Hi Jos,

    You can find some examples of the measures in Carole Dweck's book:

           - Dweck, C. S. (2000). Self-theories: Their role in motivation, personality, and development, Psychology Pr.

    and in these papers:

           - Chiu, C., et al. (1997). "Lay dispositionism and implicit theories of personality." Journal of Personality and Social          Psychology 73(1): 19.

           - Carr, P. B., et al. (2012). "Prejudiced" behavior without prejudice? Beliefs about the malleability of prejudice affect interracial interactions." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 103(3): 452.


    I hope it helps.

    Shiva

    -- 
    Shiva TAGHAVI
    PhD Candidate 
    HEC Paris - School of Management

    On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Akkermans, T.J. <j.akkermans@vu.nl> wrote:

    --- apologies for any cross-postings ---

     

     

    Dear all,

     

    For a new research project I am setting up with my colleagues, we would like to include the concept of mindsets in our survey. This is a topic that, among others, Carol Dweck and Peter Heslin have been working on during the past few years. However, I cannot seem to find a validated measurement instrument for assessing these growth versus fixed mindsets. Does any of you know how to obtain this or does anyone have a validated measure for these mindsets themselves? We would be very grateful if you could share this with us.

     

    Many thanks in advance!

     

    Best,

    Jos

     

     

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior    

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU University Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | Room 2A-42

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     




  • 4.  Measurement Instrument Mindsets

    Posted 09-25-2014 08:57
    Hi Jos

    Carol Dweck's work on mindsets comes out of her work on learning vs. performance orientations. So, a measure of learning-orienation will assess a person's growth mindset, while a performance-orientation will assess a person's fixed mindset.

    There are a number of good validated measures out there. Here are a couple you could consider.  

    Button, S. B., Mathieu, J. E., & Zajac, D. M. (1996). Goal orientation in organizational research: A conceptual and empirical foundation. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 67(1), 26-48.

    Elliot, A. J. (1999). Approach and avoidance motivation and achievement goals. Educational Psychologist, 34, 169-189.


    Good luck.


    John



    From: "Akkermans, T.J." <j.akkermans@VU.NL>
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    Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:23:35 +0000
    To: "ob@aomlists.pace.edu" <ob@aomlists.pace.edu>
    Subject: [OB-LIST] Measurement Instrument Mindsets

    --- apologies for any cross-postings ---

     

     

    Dear all,

     

    For a new research project I am setting up with my colleagues, we would like to include the concept of mindsets in our survey. This is a topic that, among others, Carol Dweck and Peter Heslin have been working on during the past few years. However, I cannot seem to find a validated measurement instrument for assessing these growth versus fixed mindsets. Does any of you know how to obtain this or does anyone have a validated measure for these mindsets themselves? We would be very grateful if you could share this with us.

     

    Many thanks in advance!

     

    Best,

    Jos

     

     

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior    

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU University Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | Room 2A-42

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     



  • 5.  Measurement Instrument Mindsets

    Posted 09-26-2014 00:10
    Dear Jos,

    We work in the field of mindsets and use a method based on laddering developed by Alex Straathof. We start laddering from main activities, questioning why this activity is important, and continue with the same question about the answer and so on and so on. This way we explore the mindsets, and discover an individual hierarchical value map. We combine these valuemaps (using an app) into collective mindsets for groups. This qualitative approach gives us very realistic and informative images of collective mindsets.

    If you are interested you are welcome to contact us.

    Maayke Jansen
    University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam
    Lectoraat Management of Culture change
    email: m.e.jansen2@hva.nl

    2014-09-25 11:23 GMT+02:00 Akkermans, T.J. <j.akkermans@vu.nl>:

    --- apologies for any cross-postings ---

     

     

    Dear all,

     

    For a new research project I am setting up with my colleagues, we would like to include the concept of mindsets in our survey. This is a topic that, among others, Carol Dweck and Peter Heslin have been working on during the past few years. However, I cannot seem to find a validated measurement instrument for assessing these growth versus fixed mindsets. Does any of you know how to obtain this or does anyone have a validated measure for these mindsets themselves? We would be very grateful if you could share this with us.

     

    Many thanks in advance!

     

    Best,

    Jos

     

     

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior    

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU University Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | Room 2A-42

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     




  • 6.  Corruption, power and testosterone

    Posted 09-27-2014 00:08
    Hi:

    Apologies for cross-postings--for those interested, I have done a
    podcast on a paper recently accepted at LQ on how leader corruption
    depends on power and testosterone. I did it bearing in mind student
    needs and I use intuitive (and fun) explanations. The podcast can be a
    useful teaching supplement for a leadership course (but also for an
    experimental methods/design course). The podcast is available here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoLLPNZLBAo

    Here is a summary of the experiments: we put leaders in incentivized
    situations where they had to decide between maximizing their economic
    benefit (which we made inefficient to invoke), or doing what's right for
    the public good. We found that power corrupts. Interestingly, before
    leaders knew if they would be leaders or followers, they said that that
    a "responsible" leader should not act in antisocial manner; however, a
    large majority of them who had more power went on to take antisocial
    decisions. What is interesting too is that we could predict corruption
    from the Honesty factor of the HEXACO measured several weeks before the
    experiment. Yet, Honesty did not shield individuals from the corruptive
    effect of power. Finally, baseline testosterone level, also premeasured
    weeks before, augmented the effect of power on corruption.

    If you would like to read the paper, it is available here:

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.07.010
    For those with no access to LQ you can download a pre-print of the paper
    from my website (it is also on ResearchGate):
    http://www.hec.unil.ch/people/jantonakis&vue=publications&set_language=en&cl=en

    Best regards,
    John Antonakis

    P.S. for French-speakers, we have subtitled another version available here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwuZRKsjDZ4

    __________________________________________

    John Antonakis
    Professor of Organizational Behavior
    Director, Ph.D. Program in Management

    Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC)
    University of Lausanne
    Internef #618
    CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny
    Switzerland
    Tel ++41 (0)21 692-3438
    Fax ++41 (0)21 692-3305
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    Organizational Research Methods


  • 7.  Measurement Instrument Mindsets: Mindest Agency Theory

    Posted 09-30-2014 03:29
    Dear Jobs,
    during recent years within our team of the OCT project
    Organisational Coherence & Trajectory
    Understanding Organisational Dynamics and Change
    (http://octresearch.net/)
    we developed a new Mindset Agency Theory that has the capability to extend on Maruyma's Mindscape Theory and can also embrace Harvey Types and Cameron/Quinn Types. In our earlier work, which won some awards by Kybernetes, we could show that there is a link between MBTI and the Maruyama types (for more information please take a look at http://octresearch.net/ ).

    For your information I attach the three original papers which we published 2014 in Kybernetes:

    Maurice Yolles, Gerhard Fink, (2014a) "Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 1 – agency, personality and mindscapes", Kybernetes, Vol. 43 Iss: 1, pp.92 – 112
    DOI: 10.1108/K-01-2013-0011
    Maurice Yolles, Gerhard Fink, (2014b) "Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 2 – cultural traits and enantiomers", Kybernetes, Vol. 43 Iss: 1, pp.113 – 134,
    DOI: 10.1108/K-12-2013-0259
    Maurice Yolles, Gerhard Fink, (2014c) "Personality, pathology and mindsets: part 3 – pathologies and corruption", Kybernetes, Vol. 43 Iss: 1, pp.135 – 143
    DOI: 10.1108/K-12-2013-0260 

    A shorter version was published in:
    Yolles, M.I., Fink, G. (2014). Modelling Mindsets of an Agency. Journal of Organisational Transformation and Social Change, Volume 11 Issue 1 (April 2014), pp. 69-88.

    As we have recently shown at the 2014 annual conference of IACCM (International Association of Cross Cultural Competence and Management:  http://www.wu.ac.at/iaccm) Mindset Agency Theory is a perfect fit with the Lilach Sagiv & Shalom Schwartz (2007) organizational value system and can be used to generate eight extreme types of political and managerial orientation.

    I attach the paper by
    Sagiv, L., Schwartz, S.H. (2007). Cultural values in organisations: insights for Europe, European J. International Management, 1(3)167-190

    and our IACCM 2014 conference paper, where we show how the types emerge from a coherent cybernetic agency theory and that these types may have a bearing on desirable and not so desirable outcomes of cultures, as was recently expressed by

    Bell, R. (2014) Cultural maps of the world, European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.18-39.
    and

    Minkov, M. and Blagoev, V. (2014) Cultural maps of the world, European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.4–17.


    If you are interested we can support you in several ways:
    • provide literature about the Maruyama types and Cameron Quinn types and related questionnaires,
    • arrange that you get access to the Lilach  Sagiv & Shalom Schwartz questionnaire to identify types which fit Mindset Agency Theory;
    • and offer that you may use the OCT-Normative Personality Instrument, which contains the Sagiv & Schwartz questionnaire and items which help to identify similarities and differences in organizational culture configurations. It is theoretically founded by our configuration of organisation culture, which is well received by readers:
    Dauber, D., Fink, G. and Yolles, M. (2012)
    Configuration Model of Organisational Culture
    Sage Open 2012, so far 38,656 downloads from
    http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/2/1/2158244012441482

    Best wishes
    Gerhard Fink



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    --- apologies for any cross-postings ---

     

     

    Dear all,

     

    For a new research project I am setting up with my colleagues, we would like to include the concept of mindsets in our survey. This is a topic that, among others, Carol Dweck and Peter Heslin have been working on during the past few years. However, I cannot seem to find a validated measurement instrument for assessing these growth versus fixed mindsets. Does any of you know how to obtain this or does anyone have a validated measure for these mindsets themselves? We would be very grateful if you could share this with us.

     

    Many thanks in advance!

     

    Best,

    Jos

     

     

     

    Jos Akkermans PhD, Assistant Professor of HRM and Organizational Behavior    

    Department of Management and Organization | Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

    VU University Amsterdam| Main Building | De Boelelaan 1105 | 1081 HV Amsterdam | Room 2A-42

    T +31 (0)20 598 22 56 | E j.akkermans@vu.nl | I www.feweb.vu.nl

     

     


    --

    Gerhard Fink
    E-Mail: gerhard.fink@wu.ac.at

     

    Please view my research on my Author pages:

    http://octresearch.net/

    http://ssrn.com/author=92836

    http://wuvienna.academia.edu/GerhardFink

     

    Please take a look at

    Dauber, D., Fink, G. and Yolles, M. (2012)

    Configuration Model of Organisational Culture

    Sage Open 2012, so far 38,656 downloads from

    http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/2/1/2158244012441482

     

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