Current Topics in HRM

1. Current Topics in HRM Week 4 – Personality and HRM

2. Personality • The tendency to think and behavior in a certain way • Big Five personality traits • Neuroticism • Extraversion • Conscientiousness • Agreeableness • Openness to experience • General intelligence, g

3. Why is Personality Important? • Big Five and job performance • What do Barrick and Mount find about this relationship? (p. 81) • What does a later Barrick & Mount’s study find about the role of job autonomy? (p. 81) • There are some situations where conscientiousness is more or less important (Figure 4). Explain each of these five scenarios.

4. Why is Intelligence important? • General intelligence, or g • Deductive, inductive, mechanical, memory, numerical, perceptual, reasoning, spatial, verbal, vocabulary • Can you cite one study that illustrates intelligence matters to job performance? (p. 78-79) • How does the author explain this positive relationship? (Figure 1)

5. Assessments of Intelligence and HRM • How do we measure these two sets of internal attributes? • Paper-and-Pencil tests • Objective evidence (e.g., grades) • Subjective evaluation (e.g., interviews) • What are the core messages the authors want to deliver about each of these assessment methods? (p. 84-85)

6. Other areas personality may play a role • Job choice • Socialization • Career success • Job satisfaction • Employee withdrawal

7. Other areas personality may play a role • Team performance • Creativity • Counterproductive behavior • Achievement motivation

8. Implications for HRM • Consider personality as an influential factor • Identify strong and weak situations • Different types of intelligence • Personality of middle and senior managers too