TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality, political skill, and job performance
AU - Blickle, Gerhard
AU - Meurs, James A.
AU - Zettler, Ingo
AU - Solga, Jutta
AU - Noethen, D.
AU - Kramer, Jochen
AU - Ferris, Gerald R.
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Based on the socioanalytic perspective of performance prediction [Hogan, R. (1991). Personality and personality assessment. In M. D. Dunnette, L. Hough, (Eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (2nd ed., pp. 873-919). Chicago: Rand McNally; Hogan, R., & Shelton, D. (1998). A socioanalytic perspective on job performance. Human Performance, 11, 129-144.], the present study tests whether motives to get along and to get ahead produce greater performance when interactively combined with social effectiveness. Specifically, we investigated whether interactions of the Five-Factor Model constructs of agreeableness and conscientiousness with political skill predict job performance. Our results supported our hypothesis for the agreeableness-political skill interaction. Additionally, after correcting for the unreliability and restricted range of conscientiousness, we found that its interaction with political skill also significantly predicted job performance, although not precisely as hypothesized. Implications of the results and directions for future research are provided.
AB - Based on the socioanalytic perspective of performance prediction [Hogan, R. (1991). Personality and personality assessment. In M. D. Dunnette, L. Hough, (Eds.), Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology (2nd ed., pp. 873-919). Chicago: Rand McNally; Hogan, R., & Shelton, D. (1998). A socioanalytic perspective on job performance. Human Performance, 11, 129-144.], the present study tests whether motives to get along and to get ahead produce greater performance when interactively combined with social effectiveness. Specifically, we investigated whether interactions of the Five-Factor Model constructs of agreeableness and conscientiousness with political skill predict job performance. Our results supported our hypothesis for the agreeableness-political skill interaction. Additionally, after correcting for the unreliability and restricted range of conscientiousness, we found that its interaction with political skill also significantly predicted job performance, although not precisely as hypothesized. Implications of the results and directions for future research are provided.
KW - Agreeableness
KW - Conscientiousness
KW - Job performance
KW - Political skill
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=43649084623&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2007.11.008
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2007.11.008
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:43649084623
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 72
SP - 377
EP - 387
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
IS - 3
ER -