Open AccessDevelopment of a New Personality-Oriented Work Analysis Questionnaire: First Steps Towards Validation
Author(s) -
Alexandru Ioan Manea,
Dragoș Iliescu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
psihologia resurselor umane
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2392-8077
pISSN - 1583-7327
DOI - 10.24837/pru.v19i1.484
Subject(s) - extant taxon , personality , psychology , inter rater reliability , reliability (semiconductor) , applied psychology , work (physics) , scale (ratio) , process (computing) , frame work , rating scale , frame of reference , quality (philosophy) , big five personality traits , personnel selection , personality test , psychometrics , computer science , social psychology , test validity , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , statistics , engineering , mathematics , philosophy , architectural engineering , biology , operating system , power (physics) , epistemology , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , mechanical engineering , physics
In this paper we detail the construction and validation process for a new personality-oriented work analysis instrument, in the form of a standardized questionnaire, based on extant research that shows that personality traits are good predictors of job performance. We present the process of item development, frame of reference training, rating scale creation, and the selection of subject matter experts. By administering the instrument to three distinct positions, the interrater reliability coefficients resulted between .80 and .94. We also investigated the instrument’s ability to discriminate between the same rated positions, and the results for this indicator were quite low. Conclusions provide some possible explanations for the lower resulted discriminability. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed as well as other future research for general improvement of data quality.