... viewed (i.e. other ratings). The authors sought to demonstrate that RSA is a superior predictor of performance indices. Design/methodology/approach Personality self-ratings from 381 business students and their ratings by 966 others were collected via online surveys. Other raters rated self-raters...

...), openness (ρ = 0.35) and proactive personality (ρ = 0.68), while negatively related to neuroticism (ρ = −0.33). Furthermore, the results indicate that sample gender (%female) and mean age partially moderate the relationship between CDSE and age, core-self evaluations...

...Hadjira Bendella; Hans-Georg Wolff Purpose Networking refers to goal-directed behaviors focused on building and cultivating informal relationships to obtain career-related resources. According to Gibson et al.'s (2014) model, personality traits represent prominent and important...

... existing research by exploring the different ways in which employees perceive workplace accountabilities. Alternatively, when accountability is perceived as a threat to be avoided, employees experience more personal doubts and allow worry, stressors, and strains to cause them to “freeze up” in a way...

...Vlad Burtaverde; Dragos Iliescu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of both work-related and emic contextualization of personality measurement in the prediction of work-related outcomes. Design/methodology/approach In total, 224 employees completed work...

...Benjamin K. Seltzer; Deniz S. Ones; Arkun Tatar Purpose The relationships between the Big Five personality traits and life and job satisfaction have been examined extensively. Despite this attention, however, most existing theories focus on a few global dimensions of the Big Five while relying...

...Dragos Iliescu; Irina Macsinga; Coralia Sulea; Gabriel Fischmann; Tinne Vander Elst; Hans De Witte Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the moderating effects of the broad personality traits associated with the five-factor model (FFM) of personality, on the relationship between...

...Stephen A Woods; Fiona C Patterson; Bart Wille; Anna Koczwara Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the role of personality in occupational specialty choice, to better understand how and in what ways personality traits might influence vocational development after a person has...

...Sean T. Lyons; Linda Schweitzer; Eddy S.W. Ng Purpose – Career resilience (CR) is an increasingly important, but under-researched aspect of modern careers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of CR on the relationships between personality factors, career self-evaluations...

...Ridhi Arora; Santosh Rangnekar Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the joint effects of personality (agreeableness and conscientiousness) and perceived supervisory career mentoring (SCM) on occupational commitment (OC) in the Indian context. In addition, the role of SCM support...

...Jennifer L. Kisamore; Eric W. Liguori; Jeffrey Muldoon; I.M. Jawahar Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the interaction between self-reported proactive personality, competence, and interpersonal conflict in the prediction of supervisor ratings of organizational citizenship...

... traits/characteristics that help managers lead effectively in organizations. The aim of this paper is to extend previous research by examining whether and how specific distal, narrow personality traits and the more proximal characteristic of political skill are related to decisiveness, a specific...

...Baek‐Kyoo (Brian) Joo; Kathryn J. Ready Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of personal characteristics (proactive personality and performance goal orientation) and contextual characteristics (organizational learning culture and leader‐member exchange quality...

... studies should investigate other contexts for comparison. Practical implications The predictive effect of personality on both job satisfaction and organisational commitment has some practical utility with regard to selection practices. During the organisational entry process, organisations should...

...Hans‐Georg Wolff; Sowon Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to suggest a comprehensive framework to elucidate the relationship between personality and networking. Using the Five Factor Model as a framework, the paper aims to argue that traits tapping into social (i.e. extraversion...

...Arnold B. Bakker; Carolyn M. Boyd; Maureen Dollard; Nicole Gillespie; Anthony H. Winefield; Con Stough Purpose The central aim of this study is to incorporate two core personality factors (neuroticism and extroversion) in the job demands‐resources (JD‐R) model. Design/methodology/approach...

...Josje S.E. Dikkers; Paul G.W. Jansen; Annet H. de Lange; Claartje J. Vinkenburg; Dorien Kooij Purpose This paper sets out to examine proactive personality in relation to job demands, job resources and engagement. Design/methodology/approach The current study employed a two‐wave complete panel...

...Thomas W.H. Ng; Daniel C. Feldman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of personality traits and interpersonal relationships with vocational indecision and the mediating role that identity construction plays in the development of those relationships. Design...

...Samuel O. Salami Purpose This paper seeks to examine the roles of personality, vocational interests, academic achievement and some socio‐cultural factors in educational aspirations of secondary school adolescents in southwestern Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach A survey research design...

..., the competency to effectively understand and influence situations and others (Ferris et al., 2007), is related to personality traits (Ferris et al., 2005) that are often used to assess occupational fit. While those high in political skill are not necessarily more active in politics...