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The nonlinear effects of conscientiousness on overall job performance and performance dimensions in the C hinese context
Author(s) -
Zhang Shanshan,
Zhou Mingjie,
Zhang Jianxin,
Chen Shuang
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2012.01375.x
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , job performance , psychology , context (archaeology) , social psychology , nonlinear system , task (project management) , personality , big five personality traits , job satisfaction , extraversion and introversion , management , economics , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
The relationship between conscientiousness and job performance has been found to be nonlinear in the W est, 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 C hinese 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.