An examination of personality in occupational outcomes: antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople

Wells, Robert; Ham, Roger; Junankar, P. N.

doi:10.1080/00036846.2015.1085636

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“…On average, personality differs between leaders and employees in non-leadership positions (Boudreau et al, 2001;Caliendo et al, 2012;Fietze et al, 2009;Furnham & Crump, 2015;Judge, Bono, et al, 2002;Li et al, 2011;Moutafi et al, 2007;Wells et al, 2016). With respect to the Big Five, leaders tend to be more extraverted, open, emotionally stable, and conscientious but less agreeable than non-leaders (Boudreau et al, 2001;Fietze et al, 2009;Furnham & Crump, 2015;Judge, Bono, et al, 2002;Moutafi et al, 2007;Wells et al, 2016).…”

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“…They take landmark decisions, manage different projects and teams, and ideally inspire and support their subordinates to fully unfold their potentials. According to previous research, leadership success not only depends on professional expertise but also on personality (Bono & Judge, 2004; Judge et al, 2009; Judge, Bono, et al, 2002), and leaders differ in their personality from employees in non‐leadership positions (Boudreau et al, 2001; Caliendo et al, 2012; Fietze et al, 2009; Furnham & Crump, 2015; Li et al, 2011; Moutafi et al, 2007; Wells et al, 2016). However, when these differences arise remain unresolved.…”

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Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader

Asselmann¹,

Holst

Specht

2022

Journal of Personality

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Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader

Asselmann¹,

Holst

Specht

2022

Journal of Personality

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“…While the literature shows that personality traits are important determinants for individuals' occupation and career choices (Jackson, 2006, Caliendo et al, 2014Wells et al, 2016), they may also be relevant to the hiring decisions made by firms. Several studies have investigated the relevance of personality traits to recruiters' hiring choices.…”

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“…The literature shows that personality traits correlate with the occupation and career choices of individuals (e.g. Jackson, 2006;Caliendo et al, 2014;Wells et al, 2016). However, occupations are characterised by various job tasks, and the within-occupation variance of tasks explains a significant portion of wage differentials between workers (Autor and Handel, 2013).…”

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Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment

Wehner

Grip

Pfeifer³

2020

SSRN Journal

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Do recruiters select workers with different personality traits for different tasks? A discrete choice experiment*This paper explores whether firms recruit workers with different personality traits for different tasks. For our analysis, we used data from a discrete choice experiment conducted among recruiters of 634 firms in Germany. Recruiters were asked to choose between job applicants who differed in seven aspects: professional competence, the 'big five' personality traits and the prospective wage level. We found that all personality traits affect the hiring probability of the job applicant; among them, conscientiousness and agreeableness have the strongest effects. However, recruiters' preferences differed for different job tasks. For analytical tasks, recruiters prefer more open and conscientious applicants, whereas they favour more open, extraverted, and agreeable workers for interactive tasks.

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“…Personality characteristics have been found to be related to fertility outcomes (Jokela 2012; Skirbekk/Blekesaune 2014; Tavares 2016), choice of educational fi eld (Korpershoek et al 2010), and occupational choices (Wells et al 2016;Woods et al 2016). A high score on agreeableness, for instance, is related to a higher propensity to have children (Jokela 2012; Tavares 2016, but not Skirbekk/ Blekesaune 2012), a low propensity to opt for educational tracks in science and economics (Korpershoek et al 2010) and a lower propensity to opt for managerialtype occupations (Wells et al 2016) and a higher propensity to opt for health care specialties that emphasize social interaction (Woods et al 2016). Thus, adolescent girls who score high on agreeableness might be expected to be strongly oriented towards care and social interaction, and thus to be attracted both to caring for children and to fi elds of study and occupation in which care and social interaction are central.…”

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Expectations about Fertility and Field of Study among Adolescents: A Case of Self-selection?

Keijer

Liefbroer

Nagel

2019

CPoS

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In recent studies on the association between education and fertility, increased attention has been paid to the field of study. Women who studied in traditionally more “feminine” fields, like care, teaching, and health, were found to have their children earlier and to have more children than other women. A point of debate in this literature is on the causal direction of this relationship. Does the field of study change the attitudes towards family formation, or do young adults with stronger family-life attitudes self-select into educational fields that emphasize care, teaching, and health? Or do both field of study preferences and family-life attitudes arise before actual choices in these domains are made?We contribute to this debate by examining the relationship between fertility expectations and expected fields of study and occupation among 14-17 year-old adolescents. We use data collected in 2005 from 1500 Dutch adolescents and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to examine the associations between expected field of study and occupation and fertility expectations. Our results show that expectations concerning fertility and field of study are already interrelated during secondary education. Both female and male adolescents who expect to pursue studies in fields that focus on care and social interaction (like health care, teaching etc.) are less likely to expect to remain childless. This holds equally for girls and boys. In addition, girls who more strongly aspire to an occupation in which communication skills are important also expect to have more children. We did not find any relationship between expectations of pursuing a communicative field of study and occupation and expectations of earlier parenthood.In addition, among boys, we find that the greater their expectation of opting for an economics, a technical, or a communicative field of study, the less likely they were to expect to remain childless. Boys who expected to study in the economic field also expect to have their first child earlier, but boys expecting to pursue a technical course of studies expect to enter parenthood later. We also found that those who expect to pursue cultural studies are more likely to have a preference for no children, or if they do want children, to have them later in life.Overall, our findings suggest that the processes of elective affinity between the communicative fields of study and work on the one hand and fertility on the other hand are more or less comparable for boys and girls. With respect to the other domains, we find, apart from the gender differences in the relation between fields of study and childlessness, hardly or no gender differences in the expected timing of parenthood and the number of children. The genders do differ in their level of preference for communicative and economics-related fields of study and occupation, but if they do have the same preference, the association with fertility expectations is more or less similar.

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An examination of personality in occupational outcomes: antagonistic managers, careless workers and extraverted salespeople

Cited by 24 publications

References 48 publications

Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader

Longitudinal bidirectional associations between personality and becoming a leader

Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment

Expectations about Fertility and Field of Study among Adolescents: A Case of Self-selection?

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