Personality and Job Performance

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Personality is the only apparent tool that can be used by organizations to predict the performance of their employees before hiring them and making them a part of their organizations. There are various studies and researches, which attempt at analyzing this relationship and its effects on individuals careers. The following is an analysis of this possible relationship between employee personality and performance. Job performance can be characterized as the quality of the set of worker behaviors and attitudes that help, either emphatically or contrarily, to organizational objective achievement (Colquitt et al., 2013). Employee performance could be separated into two classes, in particular task and contextual performance (citizenship and counterproductive behavior). Task performance incorporates two classes of conduct. One comprises of exercises that specifically change crude materials into merchandise and administrations while the second class constitutes of exercises that administrate and administer the specialized center of the occupation. On the other hand, contextual performance behaviors don't help the specialized center itself to the extent that they help the more extensive organizational, social, and mental environment in which the specialized center must function. Motowidlo and Van Scooter (1994) dwelled on the difference between task and contextual performance and its strength when correlated to various personality characterisitics. With their examination they reached the conclusion that experience predicts task performance superior to contextual performance and personality characteristics foresee contextual performance superior to task performance. Personality might be characterized as enduring emotional, enthusiastic, interpersonal, experimental, attitudinal, and motivational style that demonstrates unique behaviors in distinctive circumstances

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