人格测试:加强职业生涯中期士兵的服务选择
Rabiah S Muhammad1, Heather M K Wolters2, Bradley S Jayne3
1Workforce Assessment Branch, Transportation Security Administration, Arlington, Virginia.
概括
人格评估预测了陆军士兵的工作结果. 最近的研究表明,人格测量可以改善工作匹配和绩效,特别是在最初的招募之外的独特角色中.
科学领域:
- 心理学是一门科学.
- 军事心理学 军事心理学
- 组织行为组织行为.
背景情况:
- 非认知属性,特别是个性,是陆军在初步入伍期间与工作相关的结果的既定预测因素.
- 传统的绩效预测模型可能对专业的在职职位不够,在这些职位上,职责与以前的经验有很大不同.
研究的目的:
- 总结最近关于人格评估对现任工作绩效的预测有效性的研究.
- 探索人格测量的实用性,以提高人与工作的匹配,在专门的陆军任务中.
- 为未来关于人格和职业绩效的研究提出一个概念框架.
主要方法:
- 关于人格评估和陆军工作表现的最新研究文献的综述.
- 美国陆军行为和社会科学研究所 (ARI) 研究结果的分析.
- 为未来的研究和应用开发一个概念框架.
主要成果:
- 人格特征始终预测关键的工作结果,如磨损,绩效和纪律事件.
- 人格测量表明,在入伍第一任期之后,有潜力改善人与工作的匹配和绩效提升.
- 过去绩效的预测能力在独特的服务角色 (例如,招聘人员,训练中士) 中是有限的.
结论:
- 人格评估是预测和提高不同军队角色中的士兵表现的宝贵工具.
- 未来的研究应该专注于利用人格数据来改善人员选择和分配决策.
- 提出了一个概念框架,以指导未来对人格在专门军事职业中的作用的调查.
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