Honest, Humble Workers Associated with Higher Job Performance

(From EHS Today) -- "Researchers already know that integrity can predict job performance, and what we are saying here is that humility and honesty are also major components in that," said Dr. Wade Rowatt, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Baylor, who helped lead the study.

"This study shows that those who possess the combination of honesty and humility have better job performance," Rowatt said. "In fact, we found that humility and honesty not only correspond with job performance, but predicted job performance above and beyond any of the other five personality traits like agreeableness and conscientiousness."

The Baylor researchers, along with a business consultant, surveyed 269 employees in 25 different companies across 20 different states who work in positions that provide health care for challenging clients. Supervisors then rated the job performance of each employee on 35 different job skills and described the kind of customer with whom the employee worked. The ratings were included in order to inform higher management how employees were performing and for the Baylor researchers to examine which personality variables were associated with job performance ratings.

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