Week 1. PERSONALITY DISORDERS AT WORK Ch 5

Week 2. THE SOCIAL INTELLIGENCES AT WORK Ch 7

Week 3. INTEGRITY AND DISHONESTY AT WORK Ch 10

Textbook: Furnham, A. (2008). Personality and intelligence at work: Exploring and explaining individual differences at work. Routledge. ISBN-13: 978-1841695853

The chosen well known figure: Steve Jobs (Co-Founder, Former Chairman and CEO of 'Apple)

You will utilize all of the knowledge you have gained over the last three weeks and synthesize it into a personality analysis of a public figure. First, you will choose a well-known public figure in the business world. The more well known, the better, because you will need a lot of information on this individual.

You will then do research on them and come up with a personality analysis. Obviously (as you cannot ask these questions of them), you will have to do a lot of inferring based on their actions, behaviors, and things that they have said. I do not expect a clinical assessment, but I do want to see that you have put thought and research into responding to each of the questions. When discussing how the traits may have helped or hindered the individual, you must use research to support your claim. This research can be from peer-reviewed scholarly journals, your textbook, or trade journals (i.e., Harvard Business Review). Do not use non-scholarly websites, and it goes without saying: please don't use Wikipedia.

Answer the following questions.

1. Do you believe they are honest and ethical? Why? What are specific behavioral examples? How have their levels of honesty and ethicality assisted them in business? How might their levels of honesty and ethicality have acted as a barrier to their success in business?
2. Do you think there may be a personality disorder at play? Which one? Why? What are specific behavioral examples? How might this disorder have affected their success in the business world?