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2.8 Performance at WorkLecture 1 - Performance & Success
Predictors
Job Performance
Personality
Meta-analyses:
➔ Conscientiousness is relatively strongly related to academic performance
(around .21)
➢ also strongly related to overall job performance
,Cognitive Ability (Intelligence)
➢ Cognitive ability is quite a strong predictor → correlation higher than
personality
➢ Correlations stronger for more complex jobs
Why is there a negative correlation between Conscientiousness and Intelligence?
1. If you are smart, you don’t have to work that hard → it may be easier for them to
learn
, ➔ on certain aspects of Conscientiousness they are okay tho → working
hard in the field they are interested in
Job Success
Physical Appearance
● General appearance → physical attractiveness
● Height
effects very similar for the two
General Appearance
It has been found that physical attractiveness and income are positively related
, It has been observed how this effect is not only related to the fact that attractive people
may get jobs that pay more.
Correlational Study:
➢ This difference is seen even among people in the occupation (e.g. lawyers)
➢ they also observed that this phenomenon is more likely to occur in private
organizations
Meta analysis of experimental studies:
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