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A Scientist-Practitioner Approach
Jex, S. M., & Britt, T. W. (2014)
Productive Behavior in Organizations
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Job Performance
Linked to behaviors associated with jobrelated tasks
Distinguished from other related terms
(effectiveness, utility, productivity,
efficiency)
Critical to clearly define the criterion
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Job Experience
Shown to relate positively to job
performance over many jobs
As with GMA, seems to link to performance
via job-related knowledge
Diminishing returns
May be important to consider both density
and timing of past job experiences
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Personality
Recent resurgence of interest here
Several specific traits have shown consistent positive
relationships with performance:
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Openness to experience
Emerging considerations for predicting performance:
Bandwidth: Trait versus facet level
Potential curvilinear relationships
Contextualizing personality to the job
Composite traits related to performance
Core self-evaluations
Psychological capital
Proactive personality
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Innovation in Organizations
Productive behavior in which useful novelty is created and
applied within an organization
Research is considering the influence of employee and
organization factors (separately and together) on the
development of innovation
Employee attributes that matter: Specific skills, metaskills, personality characteristics, and motivation necessary
for creativity
Organizational determinants:
Technical vs. administrative innovation
Strategies for increasing organizational innovation:
Hiring, training, influencing motivation
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Adaptive Performance
Behaviors employees perform in
challenging and changing work contexts
Eight types of adaptive performance
Examples:
Handling emergencies or crisis situations
Handling work stress
Solving problems creatively
Dealing with uncertain and unpredictable
situations
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