Personality attributes of the big five framework in different job families : using  online job postings to analyze skill requirements of leadership positions

Scheidegger, Nicoline; Müller, Frithjof

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dc.contributor.author	Scheidegger, Nicoline	-
dc.contributor.author	Müller, Frithjof	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-17T09:34:39Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-12-17T09:34:39Z	-
dc.date.issued	2016	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/13923	-
dc.description.abstract	Purpose: Our primary goal is to present data that permit conclusions about the relative importance of the Big Five facets for leadership positions in job ads and to compare different job families in respect of the relative importance of these Big Five facets. Accordingly, we use the Big Five framework to organize our investigations. Soft skills and social-emotional competencies are often either trait labels (e.g. cooperativeness) or behaviors (e.g. teamwork) that can be viewed as manifestations of these traits. Within the leadership literature, an organizing framework that provides a useful taxonomic structure for the thousands of trait adjectives is the five-factor model of personality: conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, extraversion and openness to experience (McCrae & Pals, 1997). Of these Big Five facets, conscientiousness is the best predictor for task performance and organizational citizenship behavior (T. A. Judge, Rodell, Klinger, Simon, & Crawford, 2013) and for leadership emergence (Timothy A. Judge, Bono, Ilies, & Gerhardt, 2002), whereas extraversion and openness to experience is a predictor for leadership effectiveness. Methodology: The present paper comparatively analyses job requirements of job ads posted on company websites. We analyse job skills for leadership positions in the Swiss job market that are requested in job postings. We use job ads collected by a web crawler who identifies all job postings in Switzerland, the best indicator of the Swiss labor market. A semantic analysis searches for adjectives representing the Big Five trait facets. Originality: There is a lot of empirical evidence concerning the Big Five Framework with respect to job performance, task performance, organizational citizenship behaviour, counterproductive work behavior and leadership emergence and success. Yet, there is only little knowledge of the extent to which employers seek and evaluate these personality attributes in hiring situations like the employment interview (e.g. Huffcutt, Conway, Roth, & Stone, 2001). Using job ads of an entire national job market assessing the extent of personality characteristics as a requirement for applicants is lacking so far. Findings: Our findings indicate that personal attributes are important for many leadership positions but that they vary highly between different job families. Practical implications: We’ll present practical implications for job seekers and for employers, as according to the job family different search and posting strategies will be of major importance in the job market.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.rights	Licence according to publishing contract	de_CH
dc.subject	Arbeitsmarkt	de_CH
dc.subject	Arbeitsmarkt	de_CH
dc.subject	Big Five	de_CH
dc.subject	Big Five	de_CH
dc.subject	Leadership	de_CH
dc.subject	Leadership	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	658.3: Personalmanagement	de_CH
dc.title	Personality attributes of the big five framework in different job families : using online job postings to analyze skill requirements of leadership positions	de_CH
dc.type	Konferenz: Sonstiges	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	School of Management and Law	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Institute for Organizational Viability (IOV)	de_CH
zhaw.conference.details	International Conference of Applied Business and Management (ICABM), Porto, Portugal, 22-23 June 2016	de_CH
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	Yes	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	publishedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.volume	2016	de_CH
zhaw.publication.review	Not specified	de_CH
zhaw.title.proceedings	Abstracts of Papers presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management	de_CH
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Scheidegger, N., & Müller, F. (2016). Personality attributes of the big five framework in different job families : using online job postings to analyze skill requirements of leadership positions [Conference presentation]. Abstracts of Papers Presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management, 2016.

Scheidegger, N. and Müller, F. (2016) ‘Personality attributes of the big five framework in different job families : using online job postings to analyze skill requirements of leadership positions’, in Abstracts of Papers presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management.

N. Scheidegger and F. Müller, “Personality attributes of the big five framework in different job families : using online job postings to analyze skill requirements of leadership positions,” in Abstracts of Papers presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management, 2016, vol. 2016.

SCHEIDEGGER, Nicoline und Frithjof MÜLLER, 2016. Personality attributes of the big five framework in different job families : using online job postings to analyze skill requirements of leadership positions. In: Abstracts of Papers presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management. Conference presentation. 2016

Scheidegger, Nicoline, and Frithjof Müller. 2016. “Personality Attributes of the Big Five Framework in Different Job Families : Using Online Job Postings to Analyze Skill Requirements of Leadership Positions.” Conference presentation. In Abstracts of Papers Presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management. Vol. 2016.

Scheidegger, Nicoline, and Frithjof Müller. “Personality Attributes of the Big Five Framework in Different Job Families : Using Online Job Postings to Analyze Skill Requirements of Leadership Positions.” Abstracts of Papers Presented at the International Conference of Applied Business and Management, vol. 2016, 2016.