Personality and job performance: The importance of narrow traits Export

@article{ashton98, abstract = {In a recent discussion of the bandwidth-fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection, Ones and Viswesvaran (1996) concluded that 'broader and richer personality traits will have higher predictive validity than narrower traits'. In this paper, the arguments made by Ones and Viswesvaran in favor of the exclusive use of broad personality dimensions are discussed. New data are presented that contradict Ones and Viswesvaran's claim of the existence of a general, integrity-related personality factor, and that show two narrow measures - the Responsibility and Risk Taking scales of the Jackson Personality Inventory - to have higher validities than the Big Five dimensions with respect to job performance criteria based on self-reported workplace delinquency in a sample of 127 entry-level employees. {\copyright} 1998 John Wiley \& Sons, Ltd.}, address = {Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5C2, Canada}, author = {Ashton, M. C.}, citeulike-article-id = {2461000}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?view=extended&origin=resultslist&eid=2-s2.0-0032056370}, journal = {Journal of Organizational Behavior}, keywords = {bandwidth, criterion, fidelity, personality, traits, validity}, number = {3}, pages = {289--303}, posted-at = {2008-03-03 15:12:12}, priority = {0}, title = {Personality and job performance: The importance of narrow traits}, url = {http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?view=extended&origin=resultslist&eid=2-s2.0-0032056370}, volume = {19}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - ashton98 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2461000 N2 - In a recent discussion of the bandwidth-fidelity dilemma in personality measurement for personnel selection, Ones and Viswesvaran (1996) concluded that 'broader and richer personality traits will have higher predictive validity than narrower traits'. In this paper, the arguments made by Ones and Viswesvaran in favor of the exclusive use of broad personality dimensions are discussed. New data are presented that contradict Ones and Viswesvaran's claim of the existence of a general, integrity-related personality factor, and that show two narrow measures - the Responsibility and Risk Taking scales of the Jackson Personality Inventory - to have higher validities than the Big Five dimensions with respect to job performance criteria based on self-reported workplace delinquency in a sample of 127 entry-level employees. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. IS - 3 JF - Journal of Organizational Behavior AD - Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. N6A 5C2, Canada EP - 303 TI - Personality and job performance: The importance of narrow traits VL - 19 SP - 289 KW - bandwidth KW - criterion KW - fidelity KW - personality KW - traits KW - validity AU - Ashton, MC PY - 1998/// UR - http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?view=extended&origin=resultslist&eid=2-s2.0-0032056370 ER -