Personality, occupational sorting and routine work
| Autor: | Mirka Hintsanen, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, Christian Hakulinen, Mika Kähönen, Jutta Viinikainen, Jaakko Pehkonen, Marko Elovainio, Laura Pulkki-Råback, Petri Böckerman, Olli T. Raitakari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Technological change media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Sorting Work (electrical) Service (economics) 0502 economics and business Industrial relations sort Personality Demographic economics Job satisfaction 050207 economics Dimension (data warehouse) Psychology 050203 business & management media_common |
| Zdroj: | Employee Relations: The International Journal. 42:1423-1440 |
| ISSN: | 0142-5455 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/er-06-2019-0253 |
| Popis: | PurposeA prominent labour market feature in recent decades has been the increase in abstract and service jobs, while the demand for routine work has declined. This article examines whether the components of Type A behaviour predict workers' selection into non-routine abstract, non-routine service and routine jobs.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on the work by Barrick et al. (2013), this article first presents how the theory of purposeful work behaviour can be used to explain how individuals with different levels of Type A components sort into abstract, service and routine jobs. Then, using longitudinal data, it examines whether the components of Type A behaviour predict occupational sorting. Estimations were performed based on the linear regression method.FindingsThe results show that the Type A dimension “leadership” was associated with a higher level of abstract and service job tasks in occupation. High eagerness-energy and responsibility were also positively linked with occupation's level of abstract tasks. These results suggest that workers sort into jobs that allow them to pursue higher-order implicit goals.Originality/valueJob market polarisation towards low-routine jobs has had a pervasive influence on the labour market during the past few decades. Based on high-quality data that combine prime working-age register information on occupational attainment with information about personality characteristics, the findings contribute to our knowledge of how personality characteristics contribute to occupational sorting in terms of this important job aspect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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