Hire Ambitious People

Author:

Furnham Adrian1ORCID,Robinson Charlotte2,Haakonsen Jon Magnus Frostad1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

2. Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK

Abstract

Abstract. Is work engagement, like job satisfaction, primarily a function of personality? In total, 397 working adults completed a short, reliable, three-facet model of work engagement, a short IQ test, various self-ratings, a Big Five (bright-side) personality scale, and a measure of the personality disorders (dark-side). Work engagement was related to age, intelligence, positive self-ratings, and all the personality variables. A regression analysis revealed six variables significantly related to total work engagement: sex, age, IQ, ratings of personal ambitiousness, trait Neuroticism and Cluster A personality disorders. Regressions onto each of the three facets of work engagement showed slightly different findings, yet in each, older people with lower Cluster A scores and who rated themselves as ambitious scored higher on all facets. Over a third of the variance was explained in each regression. In every analysis, the rating of ambitiousness was most strongly related to work engagement. Implications and limitations are acknowledged.

Publisher

Hogrefe Publishing Group

Subject

Biological Psychiatry,General Psychology

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