Personality and job performance: The Big Five revisited.
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- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Applied Psychology
- Vol. 85 (6) , 869-879
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.85.6.869
Abstract
Prior meta-analyses investigating the relation between the Big 5 personality dimensions and job performance have all contained a threat to construct validity, in that much of the data included within these analyses was not derived from actual Big 5 measures. In addition, these reviews did not address the relations between the Big 5 and contextual performance. Therefore, the present study sought to provide a meta-analytic estimate of the criterion-related validity of explicit Big 5 measures for predicting job performance and contextual performance. The results for job performance closely paralleled 2 of the previous meta-analyses, whereas analyses with contextual performance showed more complex relations among the Big 5 and performance. A more critical interpretation of the Big 5-performance relationship is presented, and suggestions for future research aimed at enhancing the validity of personality predictors are provided.Keywords
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