Concept Paper: Personality-Motivation Interactions When Predicting Job Performance

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Concept Paper: Personality-motivation Interactions When Predicting Job Performance Statement of Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analysis the relationship between personality and motivation to better predict future job performance. Many organizational scholars would implicitly agree that there are individual differences in motivation, and these differences can lead to dispositional tendencies. The quantitative review may from 5 articles and they showed that personality traits (e.g., the five-factor model) are an important source of motivation. Besides, most motivation theories in I-O psychology (i.e., goal setting theory, expectancy theory, and self-efficiency theory) have as their ultimate criterion the prediction of job performance. This study can provide some insight for future exploration in I-O Psychology and Human Resources Management. Sample Article The sample article describes relationship between work experiences (i.e., organizational citizenship, interpersonal conflict, and motivation) and personality traits. However, I only extract the content about motivation because organizational citizenship behavior and interpersonal conflict have a low correlation with my topic. At the beginning, the authors demonstrated meaning of personality states and connection between experience and personality states. Then they hypothesized within individual in motivation (i.e., goal-setting motivation and intrinsic motivation) will be positively related to some personality traits. A 10-day experience sampling study was conducted and the results revealed that (a) goal-setting motivation was positively associated with next-day conscientiousness, (b) intrinsic motivation positively predicted next-day agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness, but only openness and intrinsic motivation seem to mutually influence one another, (c) motivation can predict personality

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