Journal article
Taking It to Another Level: Do Personality-Based Human Capital Resources Matter to Firm Performance?
Journal of applied psychology, Vol.100(3), pp.935-947
05/01/2015
DOI: 10.1037/a0039052
PMID: 25822069
Abstract
Drawing on the attraction-selection-attrition perspective, strategic human resource management (SHRM) scholarship, and recent human capital research, this study explores organization-level emergence of personality (i.e., personality-based human capital resources) and its direct, interactive, and (conditional) indirect effects on organization-level outcomes based on data from 6,709 managers across 71 firms. Results indicate that organization-level mean emotional stability, extraversion, and conscientiousness are positively related to organization-level managerial job satisfaction and labor productivity but not to financial performance. Furthermore, organization-level mean and variance in emotional stability interact to predict all three organization-level outcomes, and organization-level mean and variance in extraversion interact to predict firm financial performance. Specifically, the positive effects of organization-level mean emotional stability and extraversion are stronger when organization-level variance in these traits is lower. Finally, organization-level mean emotional stability, extraversion, and conscientiousness are all positively related to firm financial performance indirectly via labor productivity, and the indirect effects are more positive when organization-level variance in those personality traits is lower. Overall, the findings suggest that personality-based human capital resources demonstrate tangible effects on organization-level outcomes. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed along with study limitations and future research directions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Taking It to Another Level: Do Personality-Based Human Capital Resources Matter to Firm Performance?
- Creators
- In-Sue Oh - Temple UniversitySeongsu Kim - Seoul National UniversityChad H Van Iddekinge - Florida State University College of Business
- Contributors
- Gilad Chen (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of applied psychology, Vol.100(3), pp.935-947
- DOI
- 10.1037/a0039052
- PMID
- 25822069
- NLM abbreviation
- J Appl Psychol
- ISSN
- 0021-9010
- eISSN
- 1939-1854
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/501100003725, name: National Research Foundation of Korea, award: NRF-2011-32A-B00053
- Alternative title
- RESEARCH REPORT
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2015
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380394702771
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