The Validity of Conscientiousness Is Overestimated in the Prediction of Job Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Sensitivity analyses refer to investigations of the degree to which the results of a meta-analysis remain stable when conditions of the data or the analysis change. To the extent that results remain stable, one can refer to them as robust. Sensitivity analyses are rarely conducted in the organizational science literature. Despite conscientiousness being a valued predictor in employment selection, sensitivity analyses have not been conducted with respect to meta-analytic estimates of the correlation (i.e., validity) between conscientiousness and job performance.

Methods

To address this deficiency, we reanalyzed the largest collection of conscientiousness validity data in the personnel selection literature and conducted a variety of sensitivity analyses.

Result

SUBMITTER: Kepes S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4627756 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature