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The Roles of Personality and Self-Defeating Behaviors in Self-Management Failure

Fogelman College of Business and Economics, the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152; Tel.: 901-678-2886; fax: 901-678-4990. rrenn{at}memphis.edu

David G. Allen

Fogelman College of Business and Economics, the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152

Donald B. Fedor

College of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332

Walter D. Davis

School of Business, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677

This article proposes an individual-level theoretical framework of self-management failure. First, the authors introduce six self-defeating behaviors (SDBs) to the organizational literature. Second, they explain how personality may predispose employees to engage in these SDBs. Third, they define self-management failure and analyze how each SDB can undermine standard setting, operating, and monitoring. Throughout their presentation of the framework, the authors offer several research propositions. Finally, they discuss both the practical and theoretical implications of the framework.

Key Words: self-defeating behaviors • self-management failure • personality

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