Why Openness to Experience is not a Good Predictor of Job Performance

By Barbara Griffin, Beryl Hesketh. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Feeling Mixed, Ambivalent, and in Flux: The Social Functions of Emotional Complexity for Leaders (2017, background): “Research on this personality trait shows that the many facets of openness to experience cluster into two separate factors, reflecting the degree to which theperson is open to external versus internal experience (Griffin & Hesketh, 2004).”
Call center employee personality factors and service performance (2009, background): “Openness to new experience has been found to relate to job performance only under certain organizational conditions ( Griffin and Hesketh, 2004”
Measuring thirty facets of the Five Factor Model with a 120-item public domain inventory: Development of the IPIP-NEO-120 (2014, unknown): “…et al., 2008), health behaviors (Hagger-Johnson & Whiteman, 2007), helping in the workplace (Conway, Rogelberg, & Pitts, 2009); job performance (Griffin & Hesketh, 2004; Wallace & Chen, 2006), leadership style (Ali, Nisar, & Raza, 2011), the startle reflex (Craske et al., 2009), and team…”
The use of personality measures in personnel selection: What does current research support? (2006, methodology): “Griffin and Hesketh (2004) used factor analysis to determine that two main facets underlay the FFM dimension of Openness to Experience and these two facets were differentially related to job performance.”
Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between the Big Five and Academic Success at University (2007, background): “Griffin and Hesketh (2004) also reported differential validities of openness facets for the prediction of job performance. In contrast to our hypothesis, Neuroticism does not seem to be an important predictor of academic grades. The weighted and corrected mean correlation ranges around zero (μ̂ρ = –”
'Dark Side' Personality Styles as Predictors of Task, Contextual, and Job Performance (2004, unknown): “Recently, Griffin and Hesketh (2004) found that”
How similar are personality scales of the “same” construct? A meta-analytic investigation (2010, unknown): “…Performance E Gellatly & Irving, 2001 OCB/Contextual Performance C, E, A Goffin et al, 1996 Task/Technical/Overall Performance C, E Griffin & Hesketh, 2004 Task/Technical/Overall Performance O Halfhill et al, 2005 Task/Technical/Overall Performance C, A Hayes et al, 1994…”
Performance Adaptation (2014, background): “As a result, several individual difference factors have been identified as predictors of adaptive performance. for example, cognitive ability consistently demonstrates a positive relationship with adaptive performance (griffin & hesketh, 2004; Pulakos et al., 2000; Pulakos et al., 2002).”
Individual adaptive performance in organizations: A review (2015, background): “Additionally, Griffin and Hesketh (2004, 2005) found that only the intellect facet of openness and none of the conscientiousness facets predicted supervisor ratings of AP. However, Woo, Chernyshenko, Stark, and Conz’s (2014) meta-analytic estimates of factor and facet-level openness and a broadly de”