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The mediating role of work climate perceptions in the relationship between personality and performance
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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by Christie Fullarton, Matthew Fuller-TyszkiewiczMatthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Kathryn Von TreuerKathryn Von TreuerAlthough past research has demonstrated a link between personality and job performance, potential enabling factors of this relationship have yet to be explored comprehensively. We hypothesized that perceptions of work climate, specifically relationship dimensions—cohesion, supervisor support, and job involvement—might be the mechanism through which the relationship between personality and job performance can be explained. Two hundred and thirty Australian employees completed an online survey measuring personality, relationship dimensions of work climate (job involvement, coworker cohesion, and supervisor support) and job performance. Results revealed that the relationship dimensions of work climate fully mediated the relationship between agreeableness and job performance, and extraversion and job performance, while the relationship between neuroticism and job performance was partially mediated by relationship dimensions of work climate. Supervisor support primarily accounted for this mediated effect for the neuroticism–job performance relationship, whereas for extraversion only job involvement explained significant unique variance. Our findings suggest that the relationship of agreeableness, extraversion, and neuroticism with job performance is indirect, and perceptions of the work environment itself play a role in this relationship. This implies that organizations should consider the work environment, in addition to personality during selection procedures. Future research should examine whether different levels of work environment dimensions, foster greater job performance in employees.
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European journal of work and organizational psychologyVolume
23Issue
4Pagination
525 - 536Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Abingdon, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1359-432XeISSN
1464-0643Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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