The interactive effects of conscientiousness, openness to experience, and political skill on job performance in complex jobs: The importance of context
Blickle, G; Meurs, JA; Wihler, A; et al.Ewen, C; Plies, A; Günther, S
Date: 11 December 2012
Journal
Journal of Organizational Behavior
Publisher
Wiley
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Abstract
Caveats concerning the ability of personality to predict job performance have been raised because
of seemingly modest criterion-related validity. The goal of the present research was to test
whether narrowing the context via the type of job (i.e., jobs with complex task demands) and
adding a social skill-related moderator (i.e., ...
Caveats concerning the ability of personality to predict job performance have been raised because
of seemingly modest criterion-related validity. The goal of the present research was to test
whether narrowing the context via the type of job (i.e., jobs with complex task demands) and
adding a social skill-related moderator (i.e., political skill) would improve performance
prediction. Further, along with political skill, a broad factor of personality (i.e., conscientiousness
which had demonstrated in prior research to have the strongest criterion validity) was paired with
a narrow construct (i.e., learning approach that is closely related to openness to experience) in a
three-way interactive prediction of supervisor-rated task performance. With the employeesupervisor dyads among professionals, but not with the control group of non-professional
employees, task performance was predicted by the three-way interaction, such that those high on
all three received the highest performance ratings. Implications, strengths and limitations, and
directions for future research are discussed.
Management
Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy
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