HEXACO personality predicts counterproductive work behavior and organizational citizenship behavior in low-stakes and job applicant contexts

• Main Authors: ANGLIM, Jeromy, LIEVENS, Filip, EVERTON, Lisa, GRANT, Sharon L., MARTY, Andrew
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Faking; Employee selection; HEXACO; Organizational citizenship behavior; Counterproductive work behavior; Human Resources Management; Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Personality and Social Contexts; Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5971; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/6970/viewcontent/Hexaco_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This study examined the degree to which the predictive validity of personality declines in job applicant settings. Participants completed the 200-item HEXACO Personality Inventory-Revised, either as part of confidential research (347 non-applicants) or an actual job application (260 job applicants). Approximately 18-months later, participants completed a confidential survey measuring organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). There was evidence for a small drop in predictive validity among job applicants, however honesty-humility, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness predicted lower levels of CWB and higher levels of OCB in both job applicants and non -applicants. The study also informs the use of the HEXACO model of personality in selection settings, reporting typical levels of applicant faking and facet-level predictive validity. (C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.