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| birth_place = [[Port Shepstone]], South Africa
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}} '''Adrian Frank Furnham''' (born 3 February 1953) is a South African-born British [[British Psychological Society|BPS chartered]] [[Industrial and organizational psychology|occupational psychologist]] and chartered [[Health psychology|health psychologist]]. He is currently an [[adjunct professor]] at [[BI Norwegian Business School]] and a professor at [[University College London]].<ref>BI Norwegian Business School(n.d.). Retrieved 21 November 2019,from https://www.bi.edu/about-bi/employees/department-of-leadership-and-organizational-behaviour/adrian-furnham/.</ref> Throughout his career, he has lectured in the following post-secondary institutions: [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], [[University of New South Wales]], [[University of West Indies]], [[Hong Kong University]] Business School, and the [[Henley Management College]].<ref name=":4">A-Speakers(n.d.). Speaker Adrian Furnham: Psychological Management & Mental Health. Retrieved from https://www.a-speakers.com/speakers/adrian-furnham/.</ref>

Furnham has a broad range of research interests within the field of [[psychology]]. He has explored topics within: [[applied psychology|applied]], [[economic psychology|economic]], [[Health psychology|health]], [[occupational psychology|occupational]], [[social psychology|social]], and [[differential psychology]]. As of 2018, he has published 92 books and over 1,200 [[peer-reviewed]] journal articles.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian">{{cite book|last1= Furnham|first1=Adrian|editor-last1=Zeigler-Hill |editor-first1=Virgil |editor-last2=Shackelford|editor-first2=Todd K. |date= 2018|title= Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8 |isbn= 978-3-319-28099-8|s2cid=149098097 |url= https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/handle/item/71418}}</ref>

Furnham is a fellow of the British Psychological Society; he was granted the British Psychological Society of Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2011.<ref>Division of Occupational Psychology. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.bps.org.uk/member-microsites/division-occupational-psychology/awards-funding.</ref>

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== Early life ==
Furnham was born on 3 February 1953 to British parents in [[Port Shepstone]], [[Union of South Africa]]. He was the only child of his parents. His father was a newspaper printer and publisher, and his mother was a nurse.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian"/>

==Education==
In 1970, at the age of sixteen, he began his university education at the University of Natal [[Pietermaritzburg]] campus, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973, focusing on history, psychology, and theology. He completed a Master of Arts in 1974, composing his thesis on cross-cultural conformity and field dependence. In 1975, he completed an economics master's degree at the University of London, focusing his research on verbal, vocal, and visual cues and perception. He later completed a Master of Science at the University of Strathclyde, where he researched sex and class factors in the perception of social episodes. In 1981, Furnham completed a doctorate at Oxford and later received a D.Sc. from London in 1991 and a D.Litt. from Natal in 1997.<ref>Permission for writing Wikipedia Page . (17 November 2019). Permission for writing Wikipedia Page .</ref><ref name="Furnham, Adrian" />

== Career ==

Adrian Furnham is currently a professor of psychology at University College London. Before his current placement, he had previously lectured at numerous institutes, including Pembroke College, Oxford, the University of New South Wales, and the University of the West Indies. More so, he also taught management at both the Hong Kong University Business School and the Henley Management College. In 2009, he was assigned a position of adjunct professor of management at the Norwegian School of Management.<ref name=":4" />

Furnham has been recognized as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. In addition to his professorial roles at several universities, Furnham is an active member of many different associations. He is a Fellow of the [[British Psychological Society]], as he was renown to be the second most productive psychologist in 1995. He is also currently the elected president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, as well as the founder and director of Applied Behavioral Research Associates (ABRA); which is a consultancy in psychology. Furnham's work was used at universities and other associations. He also proactively consulted for many international companies to assist them with top team development, create systems for performance management, psychometric testing, and developing leadership skills. Following these experiences, he was elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust in 2010, Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences in 2010, and British Psychological Society of Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2011.<ref name=":4" />

He has written over 70 books, and many of them have been translated into different languages, including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish.<ref name=":0">Corner, S. (n.d.). Adrian Furnham - Keynote Speakers. Retrieved from https://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/speaker/adrian-furnham.</ref> Alongside his books, Furnham has written newspaper pieces for ''[[Financial Times]]'', ''Guardian'', ''Telegraph'', ''Daily Mail'', ''Times Higher Education Supplement'', ''Sunday Times'', and contributed to various magazines, including: ''The Spectator'', ''Personnel Management'', ''New Scientist'', ''Across the Board'', and ''Spotlight'', in both Europe and North America. He has been a columnist in multiple management magazines such as ''Mastering Management'' and ''Human Resources.''<ref name=":4" /> He is also a regular contributor to national and international radio and television channels such as BBC, CNN, and ITV.<ref name=":0" />


== Research ==
'''Adrian Furnham''' (born 3 February 1953) is a South African-born British [[organisational psychology|organisational]] and [[applied psychology|applied psychologist]], [[management]] expert and Professor of Psychology at [[University College London]]. In addition to his academic roles, he is a consultant on [[organization]]s.


==Academic work==
=== Themes ===
{{unreferenced section|date=June 2019}}
In 1979, Furnham was appointed as a lecturer in psychology at [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], and served in this capacity until 1982. He was also made a part-time tutor in psychology in the Department of External Studies, teaching management science and psychology to groups of middle and senior managers and administrators.


==== Psychometric housekeeping and reviews ====
In 1981, he was made a lecturer (1981–1987) and later reader in 1988 (1988–1992) at University College London. On 1 October 1992, he was appointed Professor in Psychology (''ad hominem''), and holding this position, he continues to teach applied / occupational psychology, as well as personality and social psychology to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He founded the Business Psychology Unit at UCL in 1986. During this period he has supervised over 20 PhD and 50 MSc projects.
Furnham has documented different scales that measure the same thing and compared their quantities. He did this through reviewing old and new personality tests. Some examples of his extensive reviews are Tolerance of Ambiguity (co-authored by Ribchester and Marks), Belief in a Just World, and the Protestant Work Ethic.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian" />


==== Test development ====
Furnham was a visiting professor to the [[University of Hong Kong]]'s Business School (1995–1997), and a visiting professor to the [[Henley Management College]] (1999–2001). He is currently Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo. He is Visiting Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa
Furnham has developed several tests throughout his career. He adapted already existing ideas to make specific tests like the Economic Locus of Control measure in 1986, and the Organisational Attributional Style Questionnaire in 1992. He developed the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, which is a self-report inventory that measures the sampling domain of trait emotional intelligence, along with his PhD student Dino Petrides in 2006.<ref>Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.eiconsortium.org/measures/teique.html.</ref> He also developed the High Flyer Trait Inventory (formerly High Flying Personality Inventory), with his colleague Ian Macrae in 2014.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian" /> The High Flyer Trait Inventory is a measure of personality traits directly related to workplace behaviours, thoughts, and perceptions of oneself and others.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.paid.2018.02.025|title=High potential personality and intelligence|journal=Personality and Individual Differences|volume=128|pages=81–87|year=2018|last1=Furnham|first1=Adrian|last2=Treglown|first2=Luke|s2cid=111382953 |hdl=11250/2501875|hdl-access=free}}</ref>


==== The relationship between tests of preference and power ====
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==Publications (1985 to the present)==
To this day Furnham had been interested in the distant relationship between the two pillars differential psychology. Furnham had given his opinion on this topic to the International Society for the Study of Individual differences. He works on this topic with the help of his PhD students.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian" />
As of 2015, he has written over 1200 scientific papers and 85 books including ''The Protestant Work Ethic'' (1990), ''Culture Shock'' (1994), ''The New Economic Mind'' (1995), ''Personality at Work'' (1994), ''The Myths of Management'' (1996), ''The Psychology of Behaviour at Work'' (1997), ''The Psychology of Money'' (1998), ''The Psychology of Culture Shock'' (2001), ''The Incompetent Manager'' (2003), ''The Dark Side of Behaviour at Work'' (2004), ''The People Business'' (2005), ''Personality and Intellectual Competence'' (2005), ''Management Mumbo-Jumbo'' (2006), ''Head and Heart Management'' (2007), ''The Psychology of Physical Attraction'' (2007), ''The Body Beautiful'' (2007), ''Personality and Intelligence at Work'' (2008), ''Management Intelligence'' (2008), ''Dim Sum Management'' (2008), ''The Economic Socialisation of Children'' (2008), ''50 Psychology Ideas you really need to know'' (2009), ''The Elephant in the Boardroom: The Psychology of Leadership Derailment'' (2009), ''People Management in Turbulent Times'' (2009), ''The Psychology of Personnel Selection'' (2010), ''Body Language in Business'' (2010), ''Bad Apples'' (2011), ''Managing People in a Downturn'' (2011), ''The Talented Manager: 67 Gems of Business Wisdom'' (2012), ''The Engaging Manager: The Joy of Managing and Being Managed'' (2012), ''The Anatomy of Adolescence: Young People's Social Attitude in Britain'' (2013), and ''The Resilient Manager'' (2013) 'High Potential' (2014) 'Backstabbers and Bullies' (2016) 'Leadership: All you need to know' (2016)


==== Self-appraisal and awareness ====
His most successful book 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know: Psychology has been translated into 25 languages and sold over a million copies
Beginning early on Furnham took a great interest in self-awareness and self-estimating intelligence, in which he published many studies on. The findings of his studies revealed that males tend to estimate their general intelligence 5-15 IQ points higher than females do, these sex differences occur across the generations and that sex differences are cross-culturally consistent.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian" />


==== Dark side ====
He has written newspaper pieces (''Financial Times'', ''Guardian'', ''Telegraph'', ''Daily Mail'', ''Times Higher Educational Supplement'', ''Sunday Times''), and contributed to such magazines as ''The Spectator'', ''Personnel Management'', ''New Scientist'', ''Across the Board'', and ''Spotlight'', in both Europe and North America. He has been a columnist in various management magazines (''Mastering Management'' and ''Human Resources'').<ref name="Google, 2009">{{cite journal|year=2007|title=Newsletter Spring 2007|journal=People and Organizations@Work POW!|issn= 1746-4188|url=http://www.bps.org.uk/downloadfile.cfm?file_uuid=8E9A2BAB-1143-DFD0-7EB4-481F2E946B4A&ext=pdf}} [PDF file]</ref> For the last three years he has written a weekly column in the Sunday Times. He also appears on radio and televisions regularly.
Furnham was introduced to the dark side personality by Robert Hogan. Dark side personalities are those that portray dysfunctional behaviours and beliefs towards others. For instance, Psychopaths would fall under this category.<ref name="Furnham, Adrian" /> These types of people do not consider how their actions affect their reputation, and, although this may seem like deviant behaviour, it also seems to help them people climb up the corporate ladder.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/sjop.12260|title=A Big Five facet analysis of a psychopath: The validity of the HDS mischievous scale of sub-clinical psychopathy|journal=Scandinavian Journal of Psychology|volume=57|issue=2|pages=117–121|year=2016|last1=Furnham|first1=Adrian|last2=Crump|first2=John|pmid=26812058}}</ref> Dark side personality research was based on the DSM-III. Using the Hogan Development Survey in various studies, Furnham was able to collect sufficient amounts of data, which later on aided in studying misbehaviour at work. According to the HDS, mischievous people were considered to be extraverts, disagreeable, deliberate, and stable. They scored high on the excitement scale and low on the consciousness scale.<ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1057/9780230281226_6|chapter=The Machiavellian Leader|title=The Elephant in the Boardroom|url=https://archive.org/details/elephantboardroo00furn|url-access=limited|pages=[https://archive.org/details/elephantboardroo00furn/page/n150 140]–151|year=2010|last1=Furnham|first1=Adrian|isbn=978-1-349-31092-0}}</ref> Furnham has written multiple papers as well as two books on this topic.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1177/0971685816673490|title=Book Review: Adrian Furnham, 2015, Backstabbers and Bullies: How to Cope with the Dark Side of People at Work|journal=Journal of Human Values|volume=23|pages=66–68|year=2017|last1=Jena|first1=Lalatendu Kesari|last2=Patra|first2=Banita|s2cid=152120616|doi-access=free}}</ref>


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== Publications ==
==Personal life and education==
=== Books ===
Furnham was born in [[Port Shepstone]], South Africa, of British parents. In 1959 the family moved to the capital{{Definition|date=July 2015}}, [[Pietermaritzburg]], where he received his primary, secondary and initial tertiary education. He attended Scottsville Primary School and then went on to Alexandra High School. In 1970, he was accepted as a student at the [[University of Natal]] ([[Pietermaritzburg]] campus). He graduated in 1972 with a B.A. degree, and the following year with B.A. honours, obtaining a distinction in psychology. He continued at the University and completed an MA. In 1975 he was accepted as a masters student at the [[University of London]] and completed his Master of Science in 1976, obtaining a distinction in Economics. He completed another M.Sc. degree at the [[University of Strathclyde]] and was then accepted as a doctoral student at the University of Oxford. He completed his D.Phil. degree there in 1981. Furnham later completed another two doctoral degrees, a [[D.Sc.]] at the [[University of London]] in 1991, and a D.Litt. at [[University of Natal]] in 1995. {{Citation needed|date=September 2012}}
As of 2019, he has written over 92 books and over 1200 scientific papers, including:<ref name="Furnham, Adrian" /><ref name=":1">ADRIAN FURNHAM. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.leadenhallconsulting.com/our-team-2-3/adrian-furnham/.</ref>


* 1990 The Protestant Work Ethic
In 1985, Furnham founded a management consultancy called ''Applied Behavioural Research Associates'', and became its first director. The consultancy's specialty was research on corporate evaluation and design, [[performance appraisal]], personnel and corporate assessment and selection, and literature reviews. Clients include the [[Foreign Office]], Goldman Sachs, PWC, KPMG, Emirates Airlines, British Army, [[Careers Research Forum]] and [[Barclays Bank]]. {{Citation needed|date=September 2012}}. Furnham is also an associate of many other organisations and consultancies. He is a motivational speaker travelling to many countries each year
* 1994 Culture Shock
* 1994 Personality at Work
* 1995 The New Economic Mind
* 1996 The Myths of Management
* 1997 The Psychology of Behaviour at Work
* 1998 The Psychology of Money
* 2003 The Incompetent Manager
* 2004 The Dark Side of Behaviour at Work
* 2005 The People Business
* 2006 Management Mumbo-Jumbo
* 2007 Head and Heart Management
* 2008 Management Intelligence
* 2009 50 Psychology Ideas you really need to know
* 2009 The Elephant in the Boardroom: The Psychology of Leadership Derailment
* 2012 The Talented Manager
* 2015 High Potential
* 2017 Motivation and Performance


== Awards and achievements ==
Furnham was recognized as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and Chartered Health Psychologist, by the [[British Psychological Society]], of which he became a Fellow in 1988. He also belongs to the [[American Psychological Association]].


Elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust 2010;
* 2010 Elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust<ref name=":2">Adrian Furnham - Keynote Speaker. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://londonspeakerbureau.com/speaker-profile/adrian-furnham/.</ref>
Elected Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences 2010;
* 2010 Elected Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences<ref name=":2" />
British Psychological Society Academic Contribution to Practice Award 2011
* 2011 British Psychological Society Academic Contribution to Practice Award<ref name=":2" />
* 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name=":3">{{cite web |last1=Frith |first1=Beckett |title=Adrian Furnham {{as written|Recie|ves &#91;sic&#93;}} HR Lifetime Achievement Award |url=https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/adrian-furnham-recieves-hr-lifetime-achievement-award |website=HR Magazine |publisher=HR Magazine |access-date=15 July 2024}}</ref>


== References ==
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===Personal life===
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During his studies at Oxford, he met Allison Green, a psychologist known for her work on memory. The couple married in 1990, and have a son.
They live in central London but have a cottage in the country. For the last 30 years he has ridden to work on a bicycle and claims to be a well-adjusted workaholic.{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}


==References==
==External links==
*[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U16593 FURNHAM, Prof. Adrian Frank], ''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
{{Reflist}}


* [https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/one-one-adrian-furnham One on one... with Adrian Furnham], interview, The British Psychological Society, 2011
==Sources==
* [https://books.google.com/books?q=Adrian+Furnham&source=in&ei=WqgmS5eUK4q-swPYicngDg&sa=X&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results&resnum=11&ved=0CCIQsAMwCg Google (2009), "Books by Adrian Furnham"]
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* http://www.adrianfurnham.com
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204061325/http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/people/profiles/furnham_adrian.htm Psychology Department of University College London, 2009]
* https://web.archive.org/web/20091230221938/http://www.simple-talk.com/content/columnist.aspx?columnist=44 ''Simple Talk'' (2009)


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Adrian Furnham
Born
Adrian Frank Furnham

(1953-02-03) 3 February 1953 (age 71)
Port Shepstone, South Africa
CitizenshipBritish
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
Institutions
Doctoral advisorMichael Argyle
Websiteadrianfurnham.com

Adrian Frank Furnham (born 3 February 1953) is a South African-born British BPS chartered occupational psychologist and chartered health psychologist. He is currently an adjunct professor at BI Norwegian Business School and a professor at University College London.[1] Throughout his career, he has lectured in the following post-secondary institutions: Pembroke College, Oxford, University of New South Wales, University of West Indies, Hong Kong University Business School, and the Henley Management College.[2]

Furnham has a broad range of research interests within the field of psychology. He has explored topics within: applied, economic, health, occupational, social, and differential psychology. As of 2018, he has published 92 books and over 1,200 peer-reviewed journal articles.[3]

Furnham is a fellow of the British Psychological Society; he was granted the British Psychological Society of Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2011.[4]

Early life

[edit]

Furnham was born on 3 February 1953 to British parents in Port Shepstone, Union of South Africa. He was the only child of his parents. His father was a newspaper printer and publisher, and his mother was a nurse.[3]

Education

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In 1970, at the age of sixteen, he began his university education at the University of Natal Pietermaritzburg campus, completing a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and an Honors Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973, focusing on history, psychology, and theology. He completed a Master of Arts in 1974, composing his thesis on cross-cultural conformity and field dependence. In 1975, he completed an economics master's degree at the University of London, focusing his research on verbal, vocal, and visual cues and perception. He later completed a Master of Science at the University of Strathclyde, where he researched sex and class factors in the perception of social episodes. In 1981, Furnham completed a doctorate at Oxford and later received a D.Sc. from London in 1991 and a D.Litt. from Natal in 1997.[5][3]

Career

[edit]

Adrian Furnham is currently a professor of psychology at University College London. Before his current placement, he had previously lectured at numerous institutes, including Pembroke College, Oxford, the University of New South Wales, and the University of the West Indies. More so, he also taught management at both the Hong Kong University Business School and the Henley Management College. In 2009, he was assigned a position of adjunct professor of management at the Norwegian School of Management.[2]

Furnham has been recognized as a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. In addition to his professorial roles at several universities, Furnham is an active member of many different associations. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, as he was renown to be the second most productive psychologist in 1995. He is also currently the elected president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, as well as the founder and director of Applied Behavioral Research Associates (ABRA); which is a consultancy in psychology. Furnham's work was used at universities and other associations. He also proactively consulted for many international companies to assist them with top team development, create systems for performance management, psychometric testing, and developing leadership skills. Following these experiences, he was elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust in 2010, Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences in 2010, and British Psychological Society of Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2011.[2]

He has written over 70 books, and many of them have been translated into different languages, including Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish.[6] Alongside his books, Furnham has written newspaper pieces for Financial Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Times Higher Education Supplement, Sunday Times, and contributed to various magazines, including: The Spectator, Personnel Management, New Scientist, Across the Board, and Spotlight, in both Europe and North America. He has been a columnist in multiple management magazines such as Mastering Management and Human Resources.[2] He is also a regular contributor to national and international radio and television channels such as BBC, CNN, and ITV.[6]

Research

[edit]

Themes

[edit]

Psychometric housekeeping and reviews

[edit]

Furnham has documented different scales that measure the same thing and compared their quantities. He did this through reviewing old and new personality tests. Some examples of his extensive reviews are Tolerance of Ambiguity (co-authored by Ribchester and Marks), Belief in a Just World, and the Protestant Work Ethic.[3]

Test development

[edit]

Furnham has developed several tests throughout his career. He adapted already existing ideas to make specific tests like the Economic Locus of Control measure in 1986, and the Organisational Attributional Style Questionnaire in 1992. He developed the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, which is a self-report inventory that measures the sampling domain of trait emotional intelligence, along with his PhD student Dino Petrides in 2006.[7] He also developed the High Flyer Trait Inventory (formerly High Flying Personality Inventory), with his colleague Ian Macrae in 2014.[3] The High Flyer Trait Inventory is a measure of personality traits directly related to workplace behaviours, thoughts, and perceptions of oneself and others.[8]

The relationship between tests of preference and power

[edit]

To this day Furnham had been interested in the distant relationship between the two pillars differential psychology. Furnham had given his opinion on this topic to the International Society for the Study of Individual differences. He works on this topic with the help of his PhD students.[3]

Self-appraisal and awareness

[edit]

Beginning early on Furnham took a great interest in self-awareness and self-estimating intelligence, in which he published many studies on. The findings of his studies revealed that males tend to estimate their general intelligence 5-15 IQ points higher than females do, these sex differences occur across the generations and that sex differences are cross-culturally consistent.[3]

Dark side

[edit]

Furnham was introduced to the dark side personality by Robert Hogan. Dark side personalities are those that portray dysfunctional behaviours and beliefs towards others. For instance, Psychopaths would fall under this category.[3] These types of people do not consider how their actions affect their reputation, and, although this may seem like deviant behaviour, it also seems to help them people climb up the corporate ladder.[9] Dark side personality research was based on the DSM-III. Using the Hogan Development Survey in various studies, Furnham was able to collect sufficient amounts of data, which later on aided in studying misbehaviour at work. According to the HDS, mischievous people were considered to be extraverts, disagreeable, deliberate, and stable. They scored high on the excitement scale and low on the consciousness scale.[10] Furnham has written multiple papers as well as two books on this topic.[11]

Publications

[edit]

Books

[edit]

As of 2019, he has written over 92 books and over 1200 scientific papers, including:[3][12]

  • 1990 The Protestant Work Ethic
  • 1994 Culture Shock
  • 1994 Personality at Work
  • 1995 The New Economic Mind
  • 1996 The Myths of Management
  • 1997 The Psychology of Behaviour at Work
  • 1998 The Psychology of Money
  • 2003 The Incompetent Manager
  • 2004 The Dark Side of Behaviour at Work
  • 2005 The People Business
  • 2006 Management Mumbo-Jumbo
  • 2007 Head and Heart Management
  • 2008 Management Intelligence
  • 2009 50 Psychology Ideas you really need to know
  • 2009 The Elephant in the Boardroom: The Psychology of Leadership Derailment
  • 2012 The Talented Manager
  • 2015 High Potential
  • 2017 Motivation and Performance

Awards and achievements

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  • 2010 Elected Fellow of the Leadership Trust[13]
  • 2010 Elected Academician of the Learned Society of the Social Sciences[13]
  • 2011 British Psychological Society Academic Contribution to Practice Award[13]
  • 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award[14]

References

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  1. ^ BI Norwegian Business School(n.d.). Retrieved 21 November 2019,from https://www.bi.edu/about-bi/employees/department-of-leadership-and-organizational-behaviour/adrian-furnham/.
  2. ^ a b c d A-Speakers(n.d.). Speaker Adrian Furnham: Psychological Management & Mental Health. Retrieved from https://www.a-speakers.com/speakers/adrian-furnham/.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Furnham, Adrian (2018). Zeigler-Hill, Virgil; Shackelford, Todd K. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8. ISBN 978-3-319-28099-8. S2CID 149098097.
  4. ^ Division of Occupational Psychology. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.bps.org.uk/member-microsites/division-occupational-psychology/awards-funding.
  5. ^ Permission for writing Wikipedia Page . (17 November 2019). Permission for writing Wikipedia Page .
  6. ^ a b Corner, S. (n.d.). Adrian Furnham - Keynote Speakers. Retrieved from https://www.speakerscorner.co.uk/speaker/adrian-furnham.
  7. ^ Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue). (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.eiconsortium.org/measures/teique.html.
  8. ^ Furnham, Adrian; Treglown, Luke (2018). "High potential personality and intelligence". Personality and Individual Differences. 128: 81–87. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.02.025. hdl:11250/2501875. S2CID 111382953.
  9. ^ Furnham, Adrian; Crump, John (2016). "A Big Five facet analysis of a psychopath: The validity of the HDS mischievous scale of sub-clinical psychopathy". Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 57 (2): 117–121. doi:10.1111/sjop.12260. PMID 26812058.
  10. ^ Furnham, Adrian (2010). "The Machiavellian Leader". The Elephant in the Boardroom. pp. 140–151. doi:10.1057/9780230281226_6. ISBN 978-1-349-31092-0.
  11. ^ Jena, Lalatendu Kesari; Patra, Banita (2017). "Book Review: Adrian Furnham, 2015, Backstabbers and Bullies: How to Cope with the Dark Side of People at Work". Journal of Human Values. 23: 66–68. doi:10.1177/0971685816673490. S2CID 152120616.
  12. ^ ADRIAN FURNHAM. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.leadenhallconsulting.com/our-team-2-3/adrian-furnham/.
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