The joint effects of personality and job scope on in-role performance,citizenship behaviors,and creativity

Abstract

This study examined the relation between personality and three dimensions of job performance (in-role performance, creativity, and citizenship behavior) under differing levels of job scope. The basic premise was that higher job scope would facilitate performance for those who were dispositionally inclined toward a particular dimension of performance and damage the performance of those who were dispositionally disinclined. Among 383 work-unit dyads in 11 organizations, some support was found for the predicted interactions between Big Five personality traits and job scope in predicting various aspects of performance.

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Big Five model citizenship behaviors creativity Five Factor model job characteristics model job design job performance job satisfaction personality person—job fit

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