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Is There a General Factor in Ratings of Job Performance? A Meta-Analytic Framework for Disentangling Substantive and Error Influences.
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A database integrating 90 years of empirical studies reporting intercorrelations among rated job performance dimensions was used to test the hypothesis of a general factor in job performance. After controlling for halo error and 3 other sources of measurement error, there remained a general factor in job performance ratings at the construct level accounting for 60% of total variance. Construct-level correlations among rated dimensions of job performance were substantially inflated by halo for both supervisory (33%) and peer (63%) intrarater correlations. These findings have important implications for the measurement of job performance and for theories of job performance.
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- Viswesvaran, C., Schmidt, F. L., & Ones, D. S.
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2005
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 108-131
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W1969719348
- Cited by
- 411
- References
- 15
- FWCI
- 33.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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