Narrow reasoning about the use of broad personality measures for personnel selection
Ones and Viswesvaran (1996) have argued for the use of broad bandwidth, rather than narrow bandwidth, personality predictors in personnel selection research when overall job performance is the criterion of interest. We take the opposite position in this article-that homogeneous measures of unidimens...
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Published in | Journal of organizational behavior Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 389 - 405 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.05.1999
John Wiley and Sons Wiley Periodicals Inc |
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Summary: | Ones and Viswesvaran (1996) have argued for the use of broad bandwidth, rather than narrow bandwidth, personality predictors in personnel selection research when overall job performance is the criterion of interest. We take the opposite position in this article-that homogeneous measures of unidimensional personality traits are always to be preferred as predictors of work (and other) criteria. We maintain that the use of multiple unidimensional predictors provides important advantages over the use of multidimensional aggregates of those predictors. These advantages pertain to both (a) empirical accuracy in predicting job performance, and (b) psychological meaningfulness in explaining work behavior. Our conclusions are supported by Ones and Viswesvaran's own data. |
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Bibliography: | ArticleID:JOB917 istex:59C8FE275AC87AF2D655404C888AEE4FFC9A849E Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - No. 410-95-1445; No. 411-92-0015 ark:/67375/WNG-ZKFLJ1MP-Z ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0894-3796 1099-1379 |
DOI: | 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(199905)20:3<389::AID-JOB917>3.0.CO;2-G |