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Personality, personnel selection, and job performance
Job Performance: The term job performance can
either refer to the objective or subjective outcomes
one achieves in a specific job (e.g., the profit of a
sales persons, the number of publications of a
scientist, the number of successful operations of
a surgeon) or to work-related activities (e.g., writing
an article, conducting specific surgical acts).
In the majority of research on this topic, job performance
as an outcome is used.
Personnel selection: Personnel selection
refers to the process of selecting the best
employees for specific jobs.
Introduction
One major application of personality research is in
the area of personnel selection. The key question
in this area is to which extent personality can
predict how well a candidate will perform on the
job he or she is applying for. Most scholars in this
area acknowledge that personality has predictive
validity for job performance. In line with this,
personality assessment is part of the selection
procedure in many organizations