Fitting the Person to the Organisation : Examining the Personality-Job Performance Relationship from a New Perspective

The current study represents an attempt to explore personality dispositions and personality process in a P-O fit context. A total of 227 employees completed self-report measures of personality and job satisfaction and their supervisors assessed their citizenship behaviours, generic work competencies and overall job performance. The theoretical approach of the cognitive-affective personality system was adopted in exploring the research questions and discussing the findings, which reinforced the significance of a confirmatory, theory-based approach in personality testing. The results supported the existence of relationships between personality and job satisfaction but not between personality and the performance-related variables, although agreeableness and openness to experience were related to performance for occupations involving interpersonal interaction