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A MULTILEVEL INTEGRATION OF PERSONALITY, CLIMATE, SELF‐REGULATION, AND PERFORMANCE
Author(s) -
WALLACE CRAIG,
CHEN GILAD
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2006.00046.x
Subject(s) - conscientiousness , psychology , regulatory focus theory , promotion (chess) , personality , productivity , organisation climate , social psychology , applied psychology , multilevel model , supervisor , sample (material) , big five personality traits , management , political science , chemistry , macroeconomics , chromatography , machine learning , politics , creativity , computer science , law , economics , extraversion and introversion
The purpose of this multilevel study was to test whether regulatory focus mechanisms (promotion focus and prevention focus; Higgins, 1997, American Psychologist, 52, 1280–1300; Higgins, 2000, American Psychologist, 55 , 1217–1230) can help explain how group safety climate and individual differences in Conscientiousness relate to individual productivity and safety performance. Results, based on a sample of 254 employees from 50 work groups, showed that safety climate and conscientiousness predicted promotion and prevention regulatory focus, which in turn mediated the relationships of safety climate and Conscientiousness with supervisor ratings of productivity and safety performance. Implications for theory and research on climate, motivation, and performance and avenues for future research are discussed.