Rothstein, Mitchell G., et al. “Choosing Job-Related Personality Traits: Developing Valid Personality-Oriented Job Analysis”. Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 51, no. 5, 2011, pp. 646-51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.001.

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  • Journal Article
Contributors
Author: Rothstein, Mitchell G.
Author: Mestdagh, Tracy
Author: Powell, Deborah M.
Author: Goffin, Richard D.
Author: Blake Jelley, R.
Author: Poole, Amanda
Author: Boyd, Allison
Author: Krajewski, Henryk T.
Author: Rieder, Michael J.
Date Issued
2011
Abstract

Although personality assessment has proven utility in pre-employment testing, little is known about how one should choose the personality traits that are most job-related. We developed a Personality-oriented Job Analysis (POJA) process for choosing job-related personality traits. We evaluated this process using 15 expert raters and approximately 330 medical students who each completed six different "jobs" in which their performance was evaluated. There was consistency across experts in POJA ratings of the job-relevance of personality traits. Also, POJA ratings of the personality traits correlated with the actual criterion-validity of the traits. Traits that received the highest POJA ratings tended to predict job performance. To our knowledge, this is the first published work to present evidence of the criterion-validity of POJA.

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Source type: Electronic(1)

Language

  • English

Subjects

  • Selection tests
  • personality
  • Employee evaluation
  • job performance
  • Job analysis
Page range
646-651
Host Title
Personality and Individual Differences
Volume
51
Issue
5
Part Date
2011-10
Location (URL)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886911002777
ISSN
0191-8869
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.001

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