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The nonlinear effects of conscientiousness on overall job performance and performance dimensions in the Chinese context.
- Source :
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Dec2012, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p231-237, 7p, 3 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The relationship between conscientiousness and job performance has been found to be nonlinear in the West, which challenges conceptually and empirically the traditional assumption of the single linear relationship. In this research, we examined the nonlinear effects of conscientiousness on both overall job performance and performance dimensions (i.e., task performance, adaptive performance and contextual performance) in the Chinese context. The results of our two studies supported some evidence for the nonlinear effect of conscientiousness on overall job performance. In addition, it was found that conscientiousness has different (linear or nonlinear) effects on performance dimensions. These findings suggest that the nonlinear effects of conscientiousness on job performance deserve further investigation, and a distinction should be made with regard to job performance in personnel evaluation. Results are discussed in terms of the significance of considering the nonlinear relationship between conscientiousness and performance criteria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMPLOYEE reviews
EMPLOYEE recruitment
HYPOTHESIS
CONSCIENCE
STATISTICAL correlation
EXPERIMENTAL design
FACTOR analysis
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
SCALES (Weighing instruments)
WORK environment
CULTURAL values
JOB performance
TASK performance
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13672223
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Asian Journal of Social Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 83147973
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2012.01375.x