Research on personality in leadership indicates that self-selection to leadership careers and artistic careers correlates with diverging personality profiles. People in leadership careers traditionally display lower neuroticism and higher conscientiousness than artistic individuals. In between, there are individuals entering arts management careers. To study these individuals directly, we collected Norwegian data from 91 musical theater students and 102 arts management students and compared with 109 business management students. As expected, conscientiousness and neuroticism predicted artistic careers against business management careers, aligned with the “arts for arts’ sake” myth of artists. Interestingly, arts management careers were not different from artistic careers. They weren’t more motivated to take on leadership roles than performing artists either. However, the Highly Sensitive Person Scale indicated that narrower traits of sensitivity predicted higher levels of motivation to lead in many artists. Some arts and arts management students seem to bring unique talents into forms of leadership particularly useful for artistic organizations. Our findings are discussed in terms of how leadership characteristics operate in the field of art, and the effect of domain-specific characteristics in this setting.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Olsson, Ulf Henning & Nimon, Kim (2024)
Measuring the menu, not the food: “psychometric” data may instead measure “lingometrics” (and miss its greatest potential)
This is a review of a range of empirical studies that use digital text algorithms to predict and model response patterns from humans to Likert-scale items, using texts only as inputs. The studies show that statistics used in construct validation is predictable on sample and individual levels, that this happens across languages and cultures, and that the relationship between variables are often semantic instead of empirical. That is, the relationships among variables are given a priori and evidently computable as such. We explain this by replacing the idea of “nomological networks” with “semantic networks” to designate computable relationships between abstract concepts. Understanding constructs as nodes in semantic networks makes it clear why psychological research has produced constant average explained variance at 42% since 1956. Together, these findings shed new light on the formidable capability of human minds to operate with fast and intersubjectively similar semantic processing. Our review identifies a categorical error present in much psychological research, measuring representations instead of the purportedly represented. We discuss how this has grave consequences for the empirical truth in research using traditional psychometric methods.
CEO dismissal as an act of human sacrifice: Metaphor or reality?
Walsh, Matthew; O'Neill, Sean, Moen, Marianne & Gullbekk, Svein Harald (red.). Human Sacrifice and Value: Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2023)
Kontekstavhengig militær ledelse
Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (red.). Militær leder- og ledelsesutvikling i teori og praksis
Digitale tekstalgoritmer har vært brukt for å påvise blindgater innen forskning på ledelse. En gjennomgang av disse viser at Forsvaret bør utvikle sin egen forskningstradisjon for å sikre effektiv ledelse som en viktig innsatsfaktor for kampkraft. Ledelsesbegrepene i sivil forskning kan være utilstrekkelige for militære kontekster, der ledelsesfaget først oppsto på 1960-tallet. Eierskap til egen ledelsesforskning er nødvendig for å sikre kunnskap med tilstrekkelig praksisrelevans.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Johansen, Rino Bandlitz (2023)
Hvor går veien videre?
Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (red.). Militær leder- og ledelsesutvikling i teori og praksis
Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2023)
Introduksjon: Forsvarets utvikling av ledere og ledelse- en nødvendig del av profesjonen eller et lappverk for spesielt interesserte?
Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (red.). Militær leder- og ledelsesutvikling i teori og praksis
Dette kapittelet gir en innføring i Forsvarets ledelsesforskningsprosjekt 2021. Prosjektets siktemål har dels vært å bidra til en forbedring av det faglige arbeidet med ledelse, og ikke minst å styrke samarbeidet innen ledelse internt i Forsvaret. Dels har siktemålet også vært å bidra med innsyn, dokumentasjon og inspirasjon til samfunnet utenfor, som bidrar til finansiering av Forsvaret, men som ikke selv har de samme ressursene til å drive innovasjon i lederutvikling.
Johansen, Rino Bandlitz & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2023)
Militær leder- og ledelsesutvikling i teori og praksis
Universitetsforlaget.
Smedslund, Geir; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Smedslund, Jan (2022)
Is psychological science progressing? Explained variance in PsycINFO articles during the period 1956 to 2022
We aimed to numerically assess the progress of modern psychological science. Average explained variance in 1565 included articles was 42.8 percent, and this was constant during 1956 to 2022. We explored whether this could be explained by a combination of methodological conventions with the semantic properties of the involved variables. Using latent semantic analysis (LSA) on a random sample of 50 studies from the 1,565, we were able to replicate the possible semantic factor structures of 205 constructs reported in the corresponding articles. We argue that the methodological conventions pertaining to factor structures will lock the possible explained variance within mathematical constraints that will make most statistics cluster around 40 percent explained variance. Hypotheses with close to 100 percent semantic truth value will never be part of any assumed empirical study. Nor will hypotheses approaching zero truth value. Hypotheses with around 40 percent truth value will probably be experienced as empirical and plausible and, consequently, as good candidates for psychological research. Therefore, to the extent that the findings were indeed produced by semantic structures, they could have been known without collecting data. Finally, we try to explain why psychology had to abandon an individual, causal method and switch to studying whether associations among variables at the group level differ from chance. Psychological processes take place in indefinitely complex and irreversibly changing contexts. The prevalent research paradigm seems bound to producing theoretical statements that explain each other to around 40%. Any theoretical progress would need to address and transcend this barrier.
Steindórsdóttir, Bryndís Dögg; Sanders, Karin, Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Dysvik, Anders (2022)
Career transitions and career success from a lifespan developmental perspective: A 15 year longitudinal study
We draw on the conservation of resources theory to examine how upward and horizontal career transitions contribute to both objective and subjective career success among a longitudinal sample, covering the first 10 to 15 years of their career. Further, we adopt socioemotional-selective theory to investigate how upward and horizontal career transitions contribute differently to career success from a lifespan perspective. Latent growth curve analysis revealed that increases in upward and horizontal career transitions over time were positively related to increases in objective career success and positively related to subjective career success. As expected, the positive effect of horizontal transitions on objective career success was stronger for younger individuals. Contrary to our expectations, upward transitions had a stronger effect on the objective career success of older individuals. We found no age effects on subjective career success. This study helps to further our understanding of how different types of career movements contribute to career success, and the types of transitions that are important for individuals of different ages.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte & Furnham, Adrian (2022)
Dispositional and ideological factor correlate of conspiracy thinking and beliefs
This study explored how the Big Five personality traits, as well as measures of personality disorders, are related to two different measures of conspiracy theories (CTs)The two measures correlated r = .58 and were applied to examine generalisability of findings. We also measured participants (N = 397) general knowledge levels and ideology in the form of religious and political beliefs. Results show that the Big Five and ideology are related to CTs but these relationships are generally wiped out by the stronger effects of the personality disorder scales. Two personality disorder clusters (A and B) were significant correlates of both CT measures, in both cases accounting for similar amounts of variance (20%). The personality disorders most predictive of conspiracy theories were related to the A cluster, characterized by schizotypal symptoms such as oddities of thinking and loose associations. These findings were corroborated by an additional analysis using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). LSA demonstrated that the items measuring schizotypal and related symptoms are cognitively related to both our measures of CTs. The implications for the studying of CTs is discussed, and limitations are acknowledged.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Robinson, Charlotte & Furnham, Adrian (2022)
Explanations for the Sources of Wealth: It Is Not a Just World
Five hundred participants indicated the extent to which they thought very wealthy people had become rich from four routes: three by personal effort (executive, investor, entrepreneur) and one by inheritance. These ratings were correlated with their demography (sex, age), ideology (religious and political beliefs), self-ratings, intelligence (IQ) as well as their beliefs in a just world (BJW), and their endorsement of conspiracy theories. It appears that most people are aware of the importance that agentic sources of wealth play, favoring entrepreneurship as the main pathway to extreme wealth. However, BJW seems to come in two versions: A “bright side version” indicating a belief that hard work and persistence will prevail, and another pathway linking agentic outcomes to theories of conspiracy. Intelligence appears to play an important role in this, but closer scrutiny suggests that IQ mainly serves to moderate conspiracy beliefs. Consequences for conspiracy beliefs and social unrest are discussed.
Furnham, Adrian; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Robinson, Charlotte (2021)
Unobtrusive measures of prejudice: Estimating percentages of public beliefs and behaviours
This study was concerned with how accurate people are in their knowledge of population norms and statistics concerning such things as the economic, health and religious status of a nation and how those estimates are related to their own demography (e.g age, sex), ideology (political and religious beliefs) and intelligence. Just over 600 adults were asked to make 25 population estimates for Great Britain, including religious (church/mosque attendance) and economic (income, state benefits, car/house ownership) factors as well as estimates like the number of gay people, immigrants, smokers etc. They were reasonably accurate for things like car ownership, criminal record, vegetarianism and voting but seriously overestimated numbers related to minorities such as the prevalence of gay people, muslims and people not born in the UK. Conversely there was a significant underestimation of people receiving state benefits, having a criminal record or a private health insurance. Correlations between select variables and magnitude and absolute accuracy showed religiousness and IQ most significant correlates. Religious people were less, and intelligent people more, accurate in their estimates. A factor analysis of the estimates revealed five interpretable factors. Regressions were calculated onto these factors and showed how these individual differences accounted for as much as 14% of the variance. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.
Cultural differences in speech acts are common challenges in management involving Chinese and Western managers. Comparing four groups – Native-speaking Chinese, English-speaking Chinese, Chinese-speaking Westerners, and non-Chinese- speaking Westerners, we assessed the effects of language and ethnicity on the ability to predict communication obstacles in a management team scenario. Bilingual subjects were less likely to be influenced by ethnic biases. Still, bilinguals were not more likely to adjust their metacognitions about communication toward those of the native speakers. The study creates a link between management, cognition and linguistics, as well as having consequences for the study of metacognition in cross-cultural management.
Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a measurement instrument for organizational learning capability (OLC) in a Chinese management context. Previous research has indicated a need for measurement instruments with proven ecological validity in China, because the learning capability of organizations is influenced by the organization’s external environment. Design/methodology/approach The authors followed a consequent inductive procedure from item sampling through exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and nomological validation. The initial part sampled relevant descriptors from a diverse sample of 159 employees from heterogeneous backgrounds in China. After sorting by an expert panel, EFA of data from a sample of 161 executive students yielded a three-dimensional construct comprising knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization. These three constructs were again tested in CFA using a sample of 357 employees from five companies. Findings The findings across the three samples resulted in a three-dimensional measurement scale that is called as the organizational learning capability questionnaire (OLCQ). The OLCQ displayed high internal consistency, reliability and nomological validity. Research limitations/implications This focus of this study has only been to establish a measurement instrument that allows indigenous research on organizational learning in China. The approach was statistically driven grounded approach, not a theoretical assumption of learning mechanisms special to the Chinese culture. Further research is needed to estimate how this approach yields results that are different from other cultures or the extent to which our findings can be explained by features of the Chinese culture or business environment. Practical implications This study offers a practical measurement instrument to assess practical and scientific problems of organizational learning in China. Social implications The work here emphasizes the necessity of a knowledge sharing community for organizational learning to appear. It addresses a call for more indigenous Chinese management research. Originality/value The authors provide a measurement instrument for OLC with proven ecological validity and with promising consequences for research and practice in China. The instrument is empirically grounded in the practices and behaviors of Chinese managers, avoiding biases that stem from previously identified shortcomings in cross-cultural management research. To the knowledge, it is the first of its kind and a contribution to a call for indigenous management theories with contextual validity.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Larsen, Kai Rune (2021)
Semantic and ontological structures of psychological attributes
Wood, Dustin; Read, Stephen J., Harms, P.D. & Slaughter, Andrew (red.). Measuring and modeling persons and situations
This chapter reviews the person-situation dimension in behavior prediction through the semantic theory of survey responses (STSR). This theory proposes that the most likely source of variation in correlations between scores on Likert-scale items is overlap in meaning. We review and explain a growing number of empirical studies that support this: Up to 86% of the variation in correlation matrices may be explained using text algorithms. Also, semantics seem to predetermine the relationships between different scales, including those cast as “predictors” and “outcomes” of one another. The studies seek to establish semantic properties on population, group, and individual levels, showing that comparisons of score levels across groups are affected by predictable differences in their interpretation of items. The findings relativize the importance of data collected by semantically influenced surveys. On the bright side, they open new ways of matching individual and group level characteristics to the general population.
Martinsen, Øyvind Lund; Furnham, Adrian, Grover, Simmy, Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Horne, George (2021)
Dark- and bright-side reactions to government advice about Covid-19, and a test of a method to moderate such reactions
The aim of this paper was to study how individual differences in personality shape reactions to authorities' health advice during the COVID-19 pandemic and how such reactions can be modified. Three studies, with between 249 and 407 participants, investigated this. Study 1 used a longitudinal design, and included measures of personality (NEO-FFI3, SCATI), political orientation, age and gender as predictors of reactions toward COVID-19 advice and regulations. Studies 2 and 3 were randomised experiments testing effects of principles for behaviour modification on such reactions. In study 1, we found that being female, older, or having liberal political views, as well as neuroticism, agreeableness and conscientiousness in the higher ranges, were associated with constructive reactions. Externalising personality disorders were related to opposite reactions. In study 2, we found that the experimental instructions had a significant positive impact on such reactions. These results were replicated in study 3. Implications and limitations are discussed.
Tomas, Casas I Klett & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2020)
Are Chinese Teams Like Western Teams? Indigenous Management Theory to Leapfrog Essentialist Team Myths
Our study analyzes a gap in research on Chinese and Western management teams, based on a broad literature review. We claim that prevalent theoretical perspectives in the management team literature might be biased toward a Western-centric view of team dynamics. This obscures alternative ways of understanding top teams encompassing Chinese cultural traditions. We outline how an essentialist team conceptualization leads to a paradox consisting of three mutually contradicting myths. Myth 1 implies that Western groups of managers comply with theoretically “ideal” team processes and characteristics. Myth 2 derives from research literature on Chinese teams claiming that team features are assumed absent or weak in China due to cultural particularities. Paradoxically, the same research tradition constructs another third myth by reporting that Chinese teams successfully comply with the Western ideal team model. The three coexisting myths point to a theoretical confounding of contextual mediators in team processes. We discuss how indigenous Chinese leadership theory and Chinese systems of philosophy give Chinese teams access to distinct and effective team processes to reach high-performance outcomes. This paper aims to open the rich possibilities of Chinese management and team practices to the cross-cultural context, and on return to novel understanding of Western teams beyond traditional essentialist theory anchors.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2020)
Wittgenstein’s Revenge: How Semantic Algorithms Can Help Survey Research Escape Smedslund’s Labyrinth
Lindstad, Tobias; Stänicke, Erik & Valsiner, Jaan (red.). Respect for Thought: Jan Smedslund’s Legacy for Psychology
Empirical research has shown how semantic algorithms can often predict the statistics of survey data a priori, particularly in topics like “leadership” and “motivation.” In those cases, the survey data reflect the language usages of respondents, not the attitudes toward the topics in question. While this fact seems to bewilder researchers, it opens a computational tool for exploring our semantic construction of psychological reality. Using Dennett’s concept “competence without comprehension,” this article discusses how humans are trapped in a semantic network that we ourselves struggle to understand. Since Smedslund’s work and the language algorithms have common roots in formal logics, the computational algorithms may help us explore the cognitively challenging area of a priori assumptions in psychological research. There may be a computational way to test and explore Smedslund’s ideas of “pseudo-empiricality,” helping science explore the complex area among empirical, logical, and psychological phenomena.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Nimon, Kim, Larsen, Kai Rune, Hovland, Christiane Vegan & Arnesen, Merethe (2020)
The Priest, the Sex Worker, and the CEO: Measuring Motivation by Job Type
This study uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) to explore how prevalent measures of motivation are interpreted across very diverse job types. Building on the Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR), we calculate “semantic compliance” as the degree to which an individual’s responses follow a emantically predictable pattern. This allows us to examine how context, in the form of job type, influences respondent interpretations of items. In total, 399 respondents from 18 widely different job types (from CEOs through lawyers, priests and artists to sex workers and professional soldiers) self-rated their work motivation on eight commonly applied scales from research on motivation. A second sample served as an external evaluation panel (n = 30) and rated the 18 job types across eight job characteristics. Independent measures of the job types’ salary levels were obtained from national statistics. The findings indicate that while job type predicts motivational score levels significantly, semantic compliance as moderated by job type job also predicts motivational score levels usually at a lesser but significant magnitude. Combined, semantic compliance and job type explained up to 41% of the differences in motional score levels. The variation in semantic compliance was also significantly related to job characteristics as rated by an external panel, and to national income levels. Our findings indicate that people in different contexts interpret items differently to a degree that substantially affects their score levels. We discuss how future measurements of motivation may improve by taking semantic compliance and the STSR perspective into consideration.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Larsen, Kai Rune (2020)
Culture blind leadership research: How semantically determined survey data may fail to detect cultural differences
Likert scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics from such studies to the extent that they are semantically driven. The Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR) predicts that in the case of semantically determined answers, the response patterns may also be predictable across languages. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was applied to 11 different ethnic samples in English, Norwegian, German, Urdu and Chinese. Semantic algorithms predicted responses significantly across all conditions, although to varying degree. Comparisons of Norwegian, German, Urdu and Chinese samples in native versus English language versions suggest that observed differences are not culturally dependent but caused by different translations and understanding. The maximum variance attributable to culture was a 5% unique overlap of variation in the two Chinese samples. These findings question the capability of traditional surveys to detect cultural differences. It also indicates that cross-cultural leadership research may risk lack of practical relevance.
While previous studies indicate that female consumers display less trust for online shopping than males do, there is little research to addresses the reasons behind this difference. Our study applies a combination of both self‐report and the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to compare the cognitive and affective components of attitudes in men and women toward online shopping in China. Although female participants showed no significant difference from male participants in affective attitudes toward online shopping in the self‐report condition, females associated online shopping more frequently with unpleasant adjectives and off‐line shopping with pleasant adjectives in the indirect IAT condition. The opposite pattern was found for the male group. This finding indicates a wanting but disliking attitude toward online shopping among the female consumers in China, which provides a unique theoretical contribution to consumer behavior theory and helps to enhance emarketers’ market targeting and segmentation effectiveness in China.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune & Martinsen, Øyvind L. (2018)
Semantic algorithms can detect how media language shapes survey responses in organizational behaviour
In this study, we investigated the relationship between narcissism, creative personality traits, ideational fluency, and accomplishments in various creative activities. We measured narcissism with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Emmons, 1987), creative personality with the Creative Person Profile (Martinsen, 2011), creative potential with a figural measure of divergent thinking, and a biographical inventory was used to measure accomplishments in creative activities. The sample consisted of 1375 young adults, mainly men. The results showed that narcissism was associated with fluency, seven creative personality dispositions, and five measures of creative activities. The latter associations were in general significant even when controlling for traits and creative potential. The strongest relationship displayed with narcissism was with the creative personality traits, in particular ambition, agreeableness, and motivation. Implications and limitations are noted.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Dysvik, Anders & Larsen, Kai (2018)
Measuring Semantic Components in Training and Motivation: A Methodological Introduction to the Semantic Theory of Survey Response
This is a methodological presentation of the relationship between semantics and survey statistics in human resource development (HRD) research. This study starts with an introduction to the semantic theory of survey response (STSR) and proceeds by offering a guided approach to conducting such analyses. The reader is presented with two types of semantic algorithms and a brief overview of how they are calculated and how they can be accessed by interested researchers. Subsequently, we use semantic data to reanalyze a previously published study on the relationships between perceptions of a trainee program, intrinsic motivation, and work outcomes. The semantic algorithms can explain between 31 and 55% of the variation in the observed correlations. This article shows how the statistical models originally used to explore the survey data can be replicated using semantics either alone or as an identifiable source of variation in the data. All the steps are presented in detail, and the datasets as well as the statistical syntax necessary to perform the analyses are made available to the readers. Implications for methodology and the improvement of predictive validity in HRD research are discussed.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune & Martinsen, Øyvind L. (2018)
Respondent Robotics: Simulating responses to Likert-scale survey items
The semantic theory of survey responses (STSR) proposes that the prime source of statistical covariance in survey data is the degree of semantic similarity (overlap of meaning) among the items of the survey. Because semantic structures are possible to estimate using digital text algorithms, it is possible to predict the response structures of Likert-type scales a priori. The present study applies STSR in an experimental way by computing real survey responses using such semantic information. A sample of 153 randomly chosen respondents to the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was used as target. We developed an algorithm based on unfolding theory, where data from digital text analysis of the survey items served as input. Upon deleting progressive numbers (from 20%-95%) of the real responses, we let the algorithm replace these with simulated ones, and then compared the simulated datasets with the real ones. The simulated scores displayed sum score levels, alphas, and factor structures highly resembling their real origins even if up to 86% were simulated. In contrast, this was not the case when the same algorithm was operating without access to semantic information. The procedure was briefly repeated on a different measurement instrument and a different sample. This not only yielded similar results but also pointed to need for further theoretical and practical developments. Our study opens for experimental research on the effect of semantics on survey responses using computational procedures.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune, Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Egeland, Thore (2018)
The failing measurement of attitudes: How semantic determinants of individual survey responses come to replace measures of attitude strength.
The traditional understanding of data from Likert scales is that the quantifications involved result from measures of attitude strength. Applying a recently proposed semantic theory of survey response (STSR), we claim that survey responses tap two different sources: a mixture of attitudes plus the semantic structure of the survey. Exploring the degree to which individual responses are influenced by semantics, we hypothesize that in many cases, information about attitude strength is actually filtered out as noise in the commonly used correlation matrix. We developed a procedure to separate the semantic influence from attitude strength in individual response patterns and compared these to the observed sample correlation matrices and the semantic similarity structures arising from text analysis algorithms, respectively. This was done with four datasets comprising a total of 7,787 subjects and 27,461,502 observed item pair responses. As argued, attitude strength seemed to account for much information about the individual respondents. However, this information did not seem to carry over into the observed sample correlation matrices. These seem to converge around the semantic structures offered by the survey items. This is potentially disturbing for the traditional understanding of what survey data represent. We argue that an enhanced understanding of how cognitive processes are necessary in responses to surveys is now within reach and could offer a valuable path for improvements in the use of survey data.
Carlsen, Arne; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Zhao, Weitao (2017)
Inviting Wonder in Organization: Tiger, Sandstone, Horror, Snowball
Some disciplines in social science rely heavily on collecting survey responses to detect empirical relationships among variables. We explored whether these relationships were predictable a priori from the semantic properties of the survey items, using language processing algorithms are now available as new research methods. Language processing algorithms were used to calculate the semantic similarity among all items in state-of-the-art surveys from organizational behavior research. These surveys covered areas such as transformational leadership, work motivation and work outcomes. This information was used to explain and predict the response patterns from real subjects. Semantic algorithms explained 60-86% of the variance in the response patterns and allowed remarkably precise prediction of survey responses from humans, except in a personality test. Even the relationships between independent and their purported dependent variables were accurately predicted. This raises concern about the empirical nature of data collected through some surveys if results are already given a priori through the way subjects are being asked. Survey response patterns seem heavily determined by semantics. Language algorithms may suggest these prior to administering the survey. This study suggests that semantic algorithms are becoming new tools for social science, and opens perspectives on survey responses that prevalent psychometric theory cannot explain.
Mathisen, John-Erik & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Properties of a Mindset Scale
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Gaupås Johansen, Markus (2023)
Er ledelse morsomt?
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Amtrup, Jon (2023)
Skippere uten en skrøne: Ledelse av seilekspedisjoner i kalde farvann
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Myhrvold, Linn Therese (2022)
En skole i konflikt: Utvalgt som leder
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Raabye, Tor Rune (2022)
Generalmajoren som elefantfører
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2022)
Å ta eierskap – ledelse eller tyveri?
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Veien til god ledelse er godt hjulpet med å la være å tråkke på medarbeiderne. Likevel er denne tilsynelatende enkle oppgaven vanskelig å mestre, skriver Jan Ketil Arnulf.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2021)
Fremtiden kan være kul
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Myklemyr, Anita (2021)
Hemmelige nettverk: Ekstremvarianten av tillitsbasert ledelse
Dagens Perspektiv [Avis]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2021)
En ekte konspirasjon med Jan Ketil Arnulf
[Internett]
Tenk om du i din søken etter hva din bestefar hadde bedrevet med hadde oppdaget et skjult nettverk som blant annet bedrev våpenhandel for Norge i det skjulte. Dette var bare noe av det dagens gjest oppdaget når han ville finne ut mer om sin bestefar. Boken Den norske atomlandsbyen er en av de bedre bøkene jeg har lest på en lang tid.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2021)
Kirkens sjel og kirkens organisering. Intervju med professor Jan Ketil Arnulf
Nytt norsk kirkeblad [Fagblad]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Lande, Ola Berg (2021)
Dommerpodden: Rettsmøter på video
Dommerpodden [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2021)
Må vi spørre om så mye!?
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
En podcast om spørreskjemaer, deres begrensninger og hvordan språkalgoritmer kan bidra til å erstatte spørreskjemaer.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2021)
En exitplan kan det være lurt å ha med seg inn i en topplederstilling.
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Det blåser som kjent på toppene, og i denne podcasten har vi med oss Anita Krohn Traaseth, som forteller om sin nye bok og hennes tanker rundt toppledelse.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Haaland, Frode Hübertz & Asklien, Henning (2021)
Det er normalt å gjøre seg lekker for hverandre!
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Podcast med utgangspunkt i boka Å knytte bånd: Rekruttering, utvelgelse og innfasing av nyansatte.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2020)
Omgitt av lederbøker: morsomt, klokt eller idiotisk?
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2020)
Kriseledelse: En rapport fra karantene
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2020)
Ledelse av “skjulte tjenester” under pandemi
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Det er håp i enden av avløpstunnelen til VEAS når administrerende direktør Ragnhild Borchgrevink styrer skuta. Ragnhild gjestet vår podcast midt i koronapandemien.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2020)
Ledere og deres mentale helse
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Jan Ketil Arnulf og Henning Asklien starter høstsesongen med en episode som omhandler Ledere og deres mentale helse. Dette er et område som passer Jan Ketil perfekt da han er en Psykologiutdannet BI professor med ledelse som spesialfelt.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2020)
Idrettens ledere
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Lagledere, trenere, oppmenn og tillitsvalgte i idrettsorganisasjonen. Samtlige er ledere, og må følgelig lede andre. I denne episoden har vi med oss Cato Haug, som er tidligere leder for Sarpsborg08 og nå styreleder i Norsk Fotball. Og Sten Gunnar Jørgensen, som er ressurstrener for hockeylaget Sparta Sarpsborg.
Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Furnham, Adrian (2020)
Covid-19:Personligheten din har en overraskende stor effekt på hvordan du reagerer på myndighetenes smittevernregler
Forskning.no [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2020)
Kunsten å se organisering
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2020)
Ledelse i regnskapets time
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2020)
Videokonferanser og tillit
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2020)
En flom av lederforskning
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2019)
Den digitale lederen
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Mikkel Skou fra DNV GL er med for å snakke om ledelse i det digitale terrenget. Han er leder for DNV GL sitt digitale prosjekt “Ecosystem Veracity”. I denne episoden snakker vi om frykten for hva som skjer hvis du ikke digitaliserer, utdannelse og opplæring av ledere innen digitalisering og sikkerhetsaspektet med digitalisering.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Mathisen, Jon Erik (2019)
Lederutdannelse
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
John Erik Mathisen og Helge Rognerud har lang fartstid som ledere, og har i denne podcasten klare meninger om lederutdannelse.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Gottschalk, Petter (2019)
Kan sjefen være en skurk? del 1
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Professor Petter Gottschalk snakker om hvitsnippkriminalitet i denne episoden. Han er tydelig og frittalende. Han snakker om definisjoner, straff, motiver og fakta. Hells Angels blir også nevnt.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Gottschalk, Petter (2019)
Hva gjør vi med en skurk som sjef? Del 2
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Petter Gottscahlk snakker her i del 2 av vår podcast om hvitsnippkriminelle.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2019)
Når vet du at du er en leder?
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Jan Ketil og Henning snakker om når en leder forstår at han eller hun leder noen eller noe.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2019)
Helvete er meg!
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Kathrine Aspaas gjester vår podcast for å snakke om finans og følelser. Hun fokuserer på at det vil komme en følelse revolusjon med de yngre arbeidstagerne på plass. Dette vil endre måten praktisk ledelse kan utøves.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2019)
Den digitale odelsjenta
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Statsviter og odelsjente Anette Mellbye gjester oss med sin bakgrunn fra digitaliseringsoppgaver i Schibsted og Aftenposten mobil
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Høiback, Harald (2019)
Den filosofiske Oberstløytnanten
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Harald Høiback snakker om sitt eget karriereløp i forvarets systemer i en periode med store omveltninger i både forsvaret og verden for øvrig. Han har gjort seg opp noen tanker om ledelse i forsvaret, som vi får ta del i.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2019)
Er styret bare en “sammenrøsket” gjeng?
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Denne gangen har vi besøk av Jannicke Rasmussen, som er Dekan ved Handelshøyskolen BI. Hun deler med seg av kunnskapen hun har vedrørende styrets oppgaver i en bedrift, offentlig enhet eller en hvilken som helst organisasjon med et styre…
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Asklien, Henning & Remlov, Tom (2019)
Teatersjefen som leder kunsten.
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Rett før jul 2019 har vi besøk av Tom Remlov i Handelshøyskolen BI sitt podcast studio. Ledelse av kunst og kunstnere er temaet…
Harnes, Magnus Peter; Andersson, Bård, Gammelsæter, Hallgeir, Arnulf, Jan Ketil, Melhus, Jon Morten, Landsem, Eli & Rønne, Knut Petter (2019)
Ole Gunnar Solskjærs suksessoppskrift: Flaks og gamle kjente
Dagens perspektiv [Avis]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2018)
Den internasjonale sjefen i Kina
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Thomas Huang er bosatt i Shanghai og har vært det i noen år. Thomas Huang har klare og tydelige meninger om hva som skjer i Kinas forretningsverden verden. Jan Ketil Arnulf og Henning Asklien følger på med sine tanker om det spennende markedet i Kina.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Asklien, Henning (2018)
Sjefen over sjefer del 1, Lederegenskaper
Podcast: Sjefen [Internett]
Harald Norvik gjester Jan Ketil Arnulf og Henning Asklien sin Podcast om ledelse. Harald har lang fartstid som Sjefen til sjefer, og vi prøver å få Harald til å fortelle litt om hvilke utfordringer som ligger i det å lede andre ledere.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2018)
Begrepet ekkokammer bør skrotes.
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2017)
Stabilitetsledelse
Kapital [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Drømmen om full kontroll
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Hvorfor ledelse ikke må overlates til ledere
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Luftslott og rottefangere
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Ingen tid til ledelse?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Banksjef til besvær
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Selvinnsikt
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Digital ledelse
Kapital [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Virker lederutvikling?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Filstad, Cathrine (2016)
Politiledelse – noe for seg selv?
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Framtidas ledelse
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Ledelse i folkevandringens tid
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Når sjefen lyver
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Lundestads fortjeneste
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Omsorg, kontroll og andre drømmer
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Dra ut!
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Hellig ku
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Tenkning er oppskrytt
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Kvinnelige toppledere og Darwin
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Ville du hatt en sånn leder som deg?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Tause ledere
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Vi kunne tatt fri nå: arbeid i robotenes tidsalder
NRK Ytring [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Farvel til NAV
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Er Kjos en god leder?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Arbeid og folkevandring
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Småmenn
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Medfødt arbeidsledig?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Perfekt hjernestorm i NAV Troms
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Den digitale fangevokter
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Spørreskjemaer i blindgate
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Våre verdier
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Hva er «helseledelse»?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Ledelse oppover
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kur mot konsulentpreik
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Et hav av penger
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Er skolen nødvendig
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Skolen er her for å bli
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kjernen i lederutvikling
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Nasjonalheltenes omkamp
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Hvor jobber du egentlig?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kur mot politisk vanetenkning
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kunsten å glemme
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Den fødte leder?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Syk av dårlig ledelse?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Lederens språkferie
NITO-refleks [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kan vi lære noe av David Moyes-affæren?
Ytring : NRK [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Endringspoesi
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Spådommer om Kina
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Tvilsom suksess
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Tvilsomme nyttårsløfter
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Tallmagi på jobben
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
I Mandelas skygge
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Framtidstro
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Ledelses-preik
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Intimitet, nei takk
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Du kan være din egen verste fiende
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Kina som laboratorium for fremtiden
Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.) [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Ledelse som skjulested
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Hjemmekontor – frynsegode eller virkemiddel?
Ytring : NRK [Kronikk]
Hærem, Thorvald & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Ledelse, kultur og krisehåndtering
Ytring : NRK [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Hjernegym nei takk
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Verdens beste ledere
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Ufullstendig ledelse
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Verdien av tillit
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Demokrati og arbeid
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Nettverk og tillit
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
God ledelse
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Sykt helsevesen
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Hjernevask på jobben
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Visjoner for Norge
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Lønn som fortjent?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Resonneringsevne
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Hodejegere
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Hva skaper ledelse?
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Hvor lærer vi næringsvett?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Umulig lederjobb
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
St Jobs og ledelsesmysteriet
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Vi er mer globale enn vi tror
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Går du i målingsfellen?
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Lederes evne til å se seg i speilet
Dagsavisen [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Martinsen, Øyvind L. (2011)
Ledelstalent
Dagens næringsliv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Bør vi snakke om kunstige «aktører» i stedet for «intelligens»?
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Er noe systematisk galt i Forsvaret?
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Hensikten med denne gjennomgangen har vært å sammenlikne tall fra Statistisk sentralbyrå, Folkehelseinstituttet og internasjonal arbeidslivsforskning med de tallene vi har for Forsvaret. God seleksjon og lederutvikling ser altså ut til å kunne forebygge rundt 60 til 80 prosent av saker vi ikke ønsker oss.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Johansen, Rino Bandlitz (1)
Forsvaret produserer gode ledere – enkeltsaker er unntak
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Follobanen som speilbilde av Norge. En deltagende observasjon
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Psykologien taper terreng til kunstig intelligens
Psykologisk.no [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Nå tolkes julegavene
NRK Ytring [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
På ryggen av en løpsk elefant
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Holder kraftselskapene Norge som gissel?
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Forenklet eller for enkel energiledelse?
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
En sånn leder som du
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Lederutvikling gir kampkraft
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Gode ledere er sjelden "født sånn"
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Julenissens plagsomme virkelighet
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Alternativer til ledelse
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune, Martinsen, Øyvind Lund & Nimon, Kim (1)
Editorial: Semantic Algorithms in the Assessment of Attitudes and Personality
Frontiers in Psychology [Kronikk]
The methodological tools available for psychological and organizational assessment are rapidly advancing through natural language processing (NLP). Computerized analyses of texts are increasingly available as extensions of traditional psychometric approaches. The present Research Topic is recognizing the contributions but also the challenges in publishing such inter-disciplinary research. We therefore sought to provide an open-access avenue for cutting-edge research to introduce and illustrate the various applications of semantics in the assessment of attitudes and personality. The result is a collection of empirical contributions spanning from assessment of psychological states through methodological biases to construct identity detection.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Elitene i hønsegården
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Tillit som vitenskap
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Prisen på fordommer
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Ledelse mellom forskning og praksis
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Er alle yrkesgrupper i Norge like motivert?
Dagens Perspektiv [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1)
Var Lange John Silver narkoman?
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift [Kronikk]
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2024)
Det norske uran- og atombombeprosjektet: Et hemmelig norsk bakkemannskap for Operasjon Gunnerside?
[Popular scientific article]. Norsk Militært Tidsskrift, s. 6- 15.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Johansen, rino, Thorkildsen, Håvard Wik & Sookermany, Anders McDonald (2024)
Navigating Cognitive Superiority: A Semantic Analysis of Professional Identity Formation Among Norwegian Command and Staff College Students
[Academic lecture]. Professional Identity Formation in the Military – from a humanities perspective.
Operational doctrines need to adapt to the rapid increase of information, complexity and possible outcomes of actions made possible with digital sensors and other technologies. This adaptation to new technological threats and opportunities needs to embrace new constructs defining the priorities of attention, communication and decision making for staff officers. One such recently developed construct is “Cognitive superiority” as defined by NATO. While the adoption of new military technologies can be dictated by top level decision makers, another question is whether the terminology need to implement them is accessible and making sense to the intended recipients. The purpose of this study is to undertake a semantic analysis of how the concept “Cognitive Superiority” was understood and reacted to during a staff exercise at the Norwegian Defense University College. Using digital algorithms to analyze reflections written during the exercise, we seek to develop a framework to study and help facilitate cognitive and linguistic developments necessary for technological upgrading of staff work.
Rasmussen, Janicke & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2024)
Dismissing CEO for performance: Instrumental act for improvement, or a performative symbolic sacrifice?
[Academic lecture]. Breakfast seminar.
Rasmussen, Janicke; Karajanov, Jovana & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2024)
Decoding Corporate Sustainability – A Linguistic Analysis of Listed Norwegian Companies’ Annual Reports. Exploring High vs. Low Authenticity
[Academic lecture]. The Nordice Corporate Governance Network workshop.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Furnham, Adrian (2024)
“Never mind the fine print”: The interaction of semantics with attitude strength beliefs on corporate cover-ups
Likert-scale surveys are frequently used in cross-cultural studies on leadership. Recent publications using digital text algorithms raise doubt about the source of variation in statistics from such studies to the extent that they are semantically driven. The Semantic Theory of Survey Response (STSR) predicts that in the case of semantically determined answers, the response patterns may also be predictable across languages. The Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) was applied to 11 different ethnic samples in English, Norwegian, German, Urdu and Chinese. Semantic algorithms predicted responses significantly across all conditions, although to varying degree. Comparisons of Norwegian, German, Urdu and Chinese samples in native versus English language versions suggest that observed differences are not culturally dependent but caused by different translations and understanding. The maximum variance attributable to culture was a 5% unique overlap of variation in the two Chinese samples. These findings question the capability of traditional surveys to detect cultural differences. It also indicates that cross-cultural leadership research may risk lack of practical relevance.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2018)
Er ledelse en truet kultur?
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2018)
En kultur kalt ledelse
[Popular scientific book]. Universitetsforlaget.
Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Arnulf, Jan Ketil, Larsen, Kai Rune, Olsson, Ulf Henning & Satorra, Albert (2017)
Semantic influence on the measurement of leadership: A multi trait-multisource perspective.
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2017)
Kommunikasjon og informasjonsprosesser
Einarsen, Ståle; Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Skogstad, Anders (red.). Organisasjon og ledelse
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2017)
A brief introduction to the semantic theory of survey response (STSR)
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Meeting.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Dai, Wanwen (2017)
Limits of a second language: Native and second languages in management team communication
[Academic lecture]. China Goes Global 2017.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Zhao, Weitao (2017)
Link to the future: Personal leadership development plans as a form of mobilizing MBA students in China.
[Academic lecture]. China Goes Global 2017.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Tomas, Casas I Klett (2017)
High-Performance Courts or Master-less Teams? Beyond the Myth of the Chinese Non-Team
[Academic lecture]. China Goes Global 2017.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Hva motiverer ledere?
Buch, Robert; Dysvik, Anders & Kuvaas, Bård (red.). Produktiv motivasjon i arbeidslivet
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Lederes kunnskap om ledelse
[Popular scientific article]. Dagsavisen
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2016)
Nysgjerrighetens pris
[Popular scientific article]. NITO-refleks
Kost, Dominique; Hærem, Thorvald, Arnulf, Jan Ketil, Andersen, Svein S & Valaker, Sigmund (2015)
Emerging Transactive Memory System Structure in Virtual Teams: A Qualitative Analysis
[Academic lecture]. Frontiers in Managerial and Organizational Cognition.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Dai, Wanwen (2015)
Developing a Measurement Scale for Organizational Learning Capabilities in China
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Meeting.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Larsen, Kai Rune & Martinsen, Øyvind L. (2015)
Leadership in language: Differential impact of media language on leadership survey responses
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management meeting 2015.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Da “sjef” ble et skjellsord
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Et hav av ideer
[Popular scientific article]. NITO-refleks
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
DESPRE LEADERSHIP: CUM ATINGI REZULTATE REMARCABILE PRIN OAMENI OBIŞNUIŢI
[Popular scientific book]. Editura Universitară.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Handlekraftig yrkesutdanning
[Popular scientific article]. NITO-refleks, s. 51- 51.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
Lederheltene
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2015)
你是否陷入了指标陷阱？ (Går du i målingsfellen)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
变革的诗意 (Endringspoesi)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
生者的理论 (Levende menns teorier)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
商业洞察力来自“心态”开发 (Forretningsmessige mindsets)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
“实验”领导力 ("Eksperimentell" ledelse)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
国王们和CEO们 (Konger og direktører)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
激励全靠钱说话？(Penger som motivasjon)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
“创意简历”能否成为敲门砖？(Kreative CV'er som springbrett?)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
以希望凝聚人心 (håp om å forene)
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
不靠谱的新年心愿（Nyttårsforsetter）
[Popular scientific article]. Fudan Business Knowledge
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Curlingledelse og andre selvfølgeligheter
[Popular scientific article]. NITO-refleks
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Produktivitet og arbeidstid
[Popular scientific article]. NITO-refleks, s. 9- 9.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
The future of manpower
[Popular scientific article]. Wilhelmsen HELM magazine, 1, s. 61- 64.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
A brief introduction to leadership
[Popular scientific book]. Universitetsforlaget.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Niu, Zhe & Lu, Hui (2014)
Management, culture and language: Native and second languages in management team communication
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Cultural differences in dialogue and speech acts are common communication challenges in management involving Chinese and Western employees and managers. Research on cultural differences affecting cognition and language in recent decades has opened for more direct exploration of how such patterns may influence communication patterns in management. Comparing four groups - Chinese, English speaking Chinese, Chinese-speaking Westerners and non-Chinese speaking westerners, we assessed the effect of language and ethnicity on the ability to predict communication obstacles in a management team scenario. Culturally expected differences were found, and bilingual respondents were significantly more likely to deviate from their ethnic biases. But bilinguals were not more likely to adjust their metacognitions about communication towards those of the native speakers. The study creates a link between management, cognition and linguistics, as well as having consequences for the study of metacognition in cross-cultural management.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Mellommenneskelig kommunikasjon
Brønn, Peggy Simcic & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (red.). Kommunikasjon for ledere og organisasjoner
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kommunikasjon og ledelse
Brønn, Peggy Simcic & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (red.). Kommunikasjon for ledere og organisasjoner
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Traavik, Laura E. Mercer (2014)
Tverrkulturell kommunikasjon og mangfold
Brønn, Peggy Simcic & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (red.). Kommunikasjon for ledere og organisasjoner
Brønn, Peggy Simcic & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2014)
Kommunikasjon for ledere og organisasjoner
[Non-fiction book]. Fagbokforlaget.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Harmony or dispute: communicating leadership
[Popular scientific article]. Wilhelmsen HELM magazine, s. 78- 81.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Trening av transformasjonsledelse
Glasø, Lars & Thompson, Geir (red.). Transformasjonsledelse
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Learning leadership in China
[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. Norway links
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2013)
Penger som motivator
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Farstad, Christian Winther & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Narcissism as antecedent to motivation to lead
[Academic lecture]. EURAM Conference 2012.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Når ledelse blir som en lek
[Popular scientific article]. Barnehagefolk
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Kristoffersen, Henning (2012)
Culture-dependent risk avoidance: reducing uncertainty in cross-national companies
[Academic lecture]. The 14th Annual ILA Global Conference.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Olympiske mestere i ledelse
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Se ut i verden!
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Hypnotisert av resultater
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Karlsen, Pål Johan & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Psykologi: Inngangsporten
[Textbook]. Universitetsforlaget.
Farstad, Christian; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Martinsen, Øyvind L. (2012)
Narcissism As Antecedent To Motivation To Lead
[Academic lecture]. European Academy of Management Conference.
Mathisen, John-Erik & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Properties of a Mindset Scale
[Academic lecture]. The 12th Conference of the International Academy of Management and Business.
This study builds on research on mindsets from laboratory research to develop and test a measurement scale for entrepreneurial mindsets. A three-dimensional scale was constructed measuring elaborating mindsets, implemental mindsets, and compulsiveness about business ideas. EFA and CFA support the claim that these three latent variables may be reliably measured. Using two samples of altogether 608 business students enrolled in entrepreneurship and normal business classes, we were able to demonstrate that elaborating mindsets are antecedent to implemental mindsets. Finally, compulsive mindsets about entrepreneurial activities were mediated by implemental mindsets. We argue that compulsivity is part of the notable impression entrepreneurs make on others, and that this is caused by mindsets instead of personality. A discriminant analysis with the big five personality factors supports this as neuroticism is not correlated with entrepreneurial compulsiveness. Other traits are related to mindsets in ways predicted by existing research.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2012)
Hva er ledelse
[Popular scientific book]. Universitetsforlaget.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Ropet på ledelse
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2011)
Måling og ledelse
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Roberts, Hanno; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Zhao, Weitao (2011)
The Process is the Bridge: using online student collaboration to indigenize MBA teaching
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management.
The workshop will specifically address the creation of an MBA course design with an emphasis on the course delivery process as that is where indigenization starts. Focus will be on three aspects: (1) pre-course casework collaboration and the introduction of MBA teaching by electronic means, (2) the in-course feedback and evaluation, and (3) the post-course learning consolidation and course conclusion. The workshop will use Google Wave as key vehicle to illustrate and practice with the PDW participants how to design and implement the course delivery process aspect. These insights have been developed gradually since 2003 when the joint MBA program between Fudan University’s School of Management and the Norwegian School of Management was initiated. Our main aim is to engage participants in developing pre-course engagement, ensure group processes of exchange and reciprocal learning, and visualize the teaching outcomes along the progress of the course, all from an indigenous perspective.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2010)
Billett til jobbintervju
[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. Kapital
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Andreassen, Anette, K. B. & Martinsen, Øyvind L. (2010)
Dark Side of Leadership Development: Can Leadership Development Be Harmful?
[Academic lecture]. 118th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Mathisen, John Erik & Hærem, Thorvald (2010)
Is firing a football coach the wrong treatment? Rationality, decision making and noise-signal ratio
[Academic lecture]. 118th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Gimsø, Christian Enger (2010)
A study on the creative personality, narcissism, and creativity
[Academic lecture]. APA Annual Convention.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2010)
Fem fallgruver i ledelse
[Popular scientific article]. Kapital
Roberts, Hanno; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Weitao, Zhao (2010)
The process and the beast: using IT tools to indigenize and contextualize MBA teaching
[Academic lecture]. Professional Development Workshop (PDW).
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Kuvaas, B & Dysvik, Anders (2009)
Exploring motivational mediators between transformational leadership and employee outcomes
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Martinsen, Øyvind L.; Lang-Ree, Ole Christian, Almås-Sørensen, A.L & Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2009)
The validity of a five factor model of personality under two different testing conditions
[Academic lecture]. ECP Congress.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Kuvaas, Bård & Dysvik, Anders (2009)
Exploring Motivational Mediators between Transformational Leadership and Employee Outcomes
[Academic lecture]. The Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Gao, J & Kristoffersen, H (2008)
East Meets West: Leadership Development as a Cultural Interface
[Academic lecture]. EURAM 2008.
Kuvaas, Bård; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Dysvik, Anders (2008)
Social and economic exchange perceptions and intrinsic motivation among knowledge workers
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Kuvaas, Bård; Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Dysvik, Anders (2008)
Social and economic exchange perceptions and intrinsic motivation among knowledge workers
[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management. Annual meeting.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2005)
The salesman?s hangover: Unintended consequences of sales tactics
[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. Scandinavian Journal of Organizational Psychology, 16(2), s. 39- 48.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (2004)
Ledelse i en digital tidsalder
Ø.L. Martinsen (red): Perspektiver på ledelse
Arnulf, Jan Ketil & Lau, Bjørn (2002)
Evaluering av samtalegrupper for volds- og sedelighetsdømte
Arnulf, Jan Ketil; Ervik, Randi & Drange, Heidi (1998)
Erfaringer med tvangsinnleggelser etter Lov om sosiale tjenester §§ 6-2 og 6-2a. Evaluering av samarbeidsmodell mellom Akuttinstitusjonen Ullevål, Tyrilisenteret og Origo-stiftelsen. Tidsperiode: januar 1997 - september 1998.
[Report]. Kompetansesenter-Rus Oslo og Akershus.
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1997)
Avslutningsrapport fra heroineksperimentet
[Popular scientific article]. Stoffmisbruk
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1997)
Tysk forskningsrapport: Ecstasy-brukerne skiller seg ut
[Popular scientific article]. Stoffmisbruk
Arnulf, Jan Ketil (1996)
Fortellingen om rusmisbrukeren
[Popular scientific article]. Stoffmisbruk
Akademisk grad
År
Akademisk institusjon
Grad
2005
University of Oslo
Ph.D Dr. Psychol.
1987
University of Oslo
Master Cand. Psychol.
1983
Freie Universität Berlin
B.S.
Arbeidserfaring
År
Arbeidsgiver
Tittel
2021 - Present
Norwegian Defense University College
Adjunct professort
2015 - Present
BI Norwegian Business School
Professor
2018 - 2022
Bi Norwegian Business School
Dean Executive
2013 - 2015
BI-Fudan MBA program
Associate dean
2004 - 2015
BI Norwegian Business School
Associate professor
2008 - 2010
BI-Fudan MBA program
Associate dean
2001 - 2004
Brødrene Dahl AS
Organizational psychological advisor to the top management team