Personality factors and impression management tactics during job interviews in relation to employee engagement

• Main Authors: Ng, Angeline Pamela L., Yee, Lucielle A.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Impression formation (Psychology); Employment interviewing
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/12175
• Institution: De La Salle University

Impression management (IM) is referred as an individual’s way of using verbal and nonverbal tactics to control the perceptions of others towards them during in certain situations, especially in the context a working environment. Based on existing research (i.e. Organ & Ryan, 1995; Behling, 1998; Bozionelos, 2003; Kim, Shin, & Swanger, 2009; Inceoglu & Warr, 2011), some personality traits are said to possibly influence employee engagement but no studies on impression management were found to influence employee engagement. Therefore , in this study, the variables IM tactics and four personality traits from the Five-Factor Model of Personality will be examined to determine their influence on employee engagement, a 2high internal motivational state3 which is 2characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption3 (Macey & Schneider, 2008; Seppala, Mauno, Feldt, Hakanen, Kinnunen, Tolvanen, & Schaufeli, 2009). Through the use of the Mini International Personality Item pool Scale (IPIP), Impression Management in Job Interviews Scale by Erdogan, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9), this study found out that impression management tactics positively influenced employee engagement batter than personality traits. In the same way, only a specific personality trait and impression management tactic, namely Extraversion and Self-promotion, had a positive influence on employee engagement