Predicting Workplace Delinquency and Integrity with the HEXACO and Five-Factor Models of Personality Structure

By Kibeom Lee, M. Ashton, Reinout E. de Vries. 2005

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Recent lexical studies of personality structure suggest that there are 6, not just 5, basic dimensions of human personality variation. The most distinguishing feature of this new 6-dimensional structure, known as the HEXACO model, is the addition of a new factor named Honesty-Humility. We demonstrate that this new dimension has important implications in personnel psychology. Specifically, the HEXACO model substantially outperformed the Five-factor model (FFM) in predicting workplace delinquency based on samples obtained in 3 different countries, namely, Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands. In addition, the HEXACO model substantially outperformed the FFM in predicting scores on an overt integrity test, due to the inclusion of the Honesty-Humility dimension.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Implicit self-concept and moral action (2009, methodology): “Other researchers (Lee et al., 2005; Marcus, Lee, & Ashton, 2007) have tried to define more clearly the conceptual variable behind integrity measures suggesting that integrity tests may reflect a sixth personality dimension that has been labeled Honesty–Humility, and which is not adequately…”
Public sector motivation ad fonts : Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest (2017, background): “Being honest is not only related to being less prone to incur “work-delinquent” behaviors (Lee et al., 2005), but also to being more concerned with the well-being of society at large.”
A REVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN INTEGRITY TEST RESEARCH (2007, methodology): “Lee et al. (2005) demonstrated that multiple correlations between a six-factor model of personality including H-H (termed HEXACO) and workplace delinquency were .10 to .16 higher than the same multiple correlations using just the Big Five.”
A meta-analysis of the relations between personality and workplace deviance: Big Five versus HEXACO (2019, background): “B5 Agreeableness captures some of the variance associated with HEXACO Honesty-Humility (Ashton & Lee, 2005), which has been found to be an important predictor of workplace deviance (Lee, Ashton, & De Vries, 2005).”
Empirical, Theoretical, and Practical Advantages of the HEXACO Model of Personality Structure (2007, unknown): “) Also reported by Lee et al., was a substantial predictive advantage of the HEXACO variables compared to those of the B5/FFM in predicting two Supernumerary Personality Inventory scales that are conceptually related to Emotionality—specifically, Femininity and low Risk Taking. This suggests that th”