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Personality and Job Performance in Financial Services Managers
Author(s) -
Salgado Jesús F.,
Rumbo Andrés
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2389.00049
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , psychology , agreeableness , job performance , extraversion and introversion , job attitude , openness to experience , facet (psychology) , core self evaluations , big five personality traits , neuroticism , personality , applied psychology , job satisfaction , social psychology , contextual performance , scale (ratio) , job analysis , physics , quantum mechanics
This article presents research in which the Five Factor Model of personality was tested as a predictor of job performance. 125 financial services managers who had enrolled in a potential evaluation programme were given the NEO‐FFI, a questionnaire designed for measuring the Big Five. Job performance was assessed using nine rating scales and they were grouped into two components: job problem‐solving ability and job motivation. Also, one single scale for measuring global job performance was used. The results show that Neuroticism and Conscientiousness correlated with the two components and with the global measure of job performance. Extraversion, Openness and Agreeableness are correlated with one facet or with the global rating of job performance. Taken together, the results suggest that the Five Factor Model is a valid predictor of job performance. The implications of the results for practice and future research are discussed.