TY - JOUR
T1 - Relative Importance of Personality and General Mental Ability in Managers' Judgments of Applicant Qualifications
AU - Dunn, Wendy S.
AU - Mount, Michael K.
AU - Barrick, Murray R.
AU - Ones, Deniz S.
PY - 1995/8
Y1 - 1995/8
N2 - Eighty-four managers who make hiring decisions in 1 of 6 occupations representative of J. L. Holland's (1973) 6 job typologies (medical technologist, insurance sales agent, carpenter, licensed practical nurse, reporter, and secretary) rated 39 hypothetical job applicants on 2 dependent variables, hirability and counterproductivity. Applicants were described on the Big Five personality factors (Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) and on general mental ability. Results showed that general mental ability and conscientiousness were the most important attributes related to applicants' hirability and that Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness were the most important attributes related to counterproductivity. In most respects, these results mirror meta-analytic reviews of validity studies, thereby confirming hypotheses.
AB - Eighty-four managers who make hiring decisions in 1 of 6 occupations representative of J. L. Holland's (1973) 6 job typologies (medical technologist, insurance sales agent, carpenter, licensed practical nurse, reporter, and secretary) rated 39 hypothetical job applicants on 2 dependent variables, hirability and counterproductivity. Applicants were described on the Big Five personality factors (Emotional Stability, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) and on general mental ability. Results showed that general mental ability and conscientiousness were the most important attributes related to applicants' hirability and that Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness were the most important attributes related to counterproductivity. In most respects, these results mirror meta-analytic reviews of validity studies, thereby confirming hypotheses.
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U2 - 10.1037/0021-9010.80.4.500
DO - 10.1037/0021-9010.80.4.500
M3 - Article
C2 - 7642460
AN - SCOPUS:0029355807
SN - 0021-9010
VL - 80
SP - 500
EP - 509
JO - Journal of Applied Psychology
JF - Journal of Applied Psychology
IS - 4
ER -