Big-Five model - The five basic dimensions are:
1. Extroversion. Comfort level with relationships.
• Extroverts tend to be gregarious, assertive, and sociable. Introverts tend to
be reserved, timid, and quiet.
2. Agreeableness. Individual’s propensity to defer to others.
• High agreeableness people—cooperative, warm, and trusting.
• Low agreeableness people—cold, disagreeable, and antagonistic.
3. Conscientiousness. A measure of reliability.
• A high conscientious person is responsible, organized, dependable, and persistent.
• Those who score low on this dimension are easily distracted, disorganized,
and unreliable.
4. Emotional stability. A person’s ability to withstand stress.
• People with positive emotional stability tend to be calm, self-confident, and secure.
• Those with high negative scores tend to be nervous, anxious, depressed, and insecure.
5. Openness to experience. The range of interests and fascination with novelty.
• Extremely open people are creative, curious, and artistically sensitive.
• Those at the other end of the openness category are conventional and find
comfort in the familiar.
The results showed that conscientiousness predicted job performance for all occupational groups.
• Individuals who are dependable, reliable, careful, thorough, able to plan,
organized, hardworking, persistent, and achievement-oriented tend to have higher job performance.
• Employees higher in conscientiousness develop higher levels of job knowledge