Personality and Group Performance: The Importance of Personality Composition and Work Tasks

• Main Authors: KRAMER, Amit, BHAVE, Devasheesh P., JOHNSON, Tiffany D.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Personality composition; Task performance; Big-Five; Groups; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Personality and Social Contexts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3640; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4639/viewcontent/Kramer__Bhave____Johnson__2014___PID_v2.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examine whether group members’ Big Five personality composition (variability, minimum, and maximum) affects the group’s performance. We employed an experimental design where participants were paid based on their performance in two different group-based experimental tasks: an additive task (where...