The nonlinear effects of conscientiousness on overall job performance and performance dimensions in the Chinese context

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 231-237

  Zhang, Shanshan ^a,b   Zhou, Mingjie ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a   Chen, Shuang ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive performance; Conscientiousness; Contextual performance; Nonlinear; Overall job performance; Task performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868549051     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2012.01375.x     Document Type: Article

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