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Conscientiousness, Its Facets, and the Prediction of Job Performance Ratings: Evidence against the narrow measures
Author(s) -
Salgado Jesús F.,
Moscoso Silvia,
Berges Alfredo
Publication year - 2013
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/ijsa.12018
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , psychology , job performance , social psychology , variance (accounting) , personality , orderliness , big five personality traits , contextual performance , sample (material) , applied psychology , extraversion and introversion , job attitude , job satisfaction , chemistry , chromatography , business , accounting
This study empirically tested the predictions of the three basic perspectives on the bandwidth debate about the relationship between personality and job performance, regarding the validity of conscientiousness and its facets. The sample consisted of 226 police officers. Conscientiousness and three facets (order, industriousness, and self‐control) were correlated with three performance criteria (overall job performance, task performance, and orderliness). A Schmid–Leiman transformation made it possible to residualize the variance of the facets and to isolate their unique contribution to the prediction of performance measures. The results showed that conscientiousness predicted the three criteria (true validities of.25,.28 and.37, respectively) and that the facets neither predicted job performance nor showed incremental validity over conscientiousness. Finally, the implications of the findings for theory and practice are commented on, and future research is suggested.