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Using General Mental Ability and Personality Traits to Predict Job Performance in Three C hilean Organizations
Author(s) -
Barros Eduardo,
Kausel Edgar E.,
Cuadra Felipe,
Díaz Daniel A.
Publication year - 2014
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.12089
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , psychology , job performance , replicate , big five personality traits , industrial and organizational psychology , applied psychology , personnel selection , social psychology , personality , selection (genetic algorithm) , contextual performance , job attitude , job satisfaction , management , statistics , extraversion and introversion , computer science , mathematics , economics , artificial intelligence
Although the field of personnel selection has amounted around 100 years of research, there has been an overrepresentation of A merican and W estern E uropean samples in these studies. In particular, samples from L atin A merica have been almost entirely absent from industrial and organizational psychology journals. Thus, it is unknown whether well‐documented findings, such as the prediction of job performance based on general mental ability and conscientiousness, replicate in this region. This research intended to address this gap in the literature with three studies conducted in C hilean organizations, using different research designs, and different operationalizations of predictors and criteria. Results are generally consistent with previous studies, showing that conscientiousness and general mental ability significantly predict job performance in these C hilean samples.