Personality as a Predictor Of Job Performance in an All-Remote Workforce: A Study of Workers Within the Canada Pension Centre for the Federal Public Service
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Abstract
Prior research demonstrated that the Big Five dimensions of personality (Extraversion, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Openness, and Agreeableness) can significantly predict overall job performance in traditional in-person office settings (Barrick & Mount, 1991). The arrival of the pandemic required many organizations to rethink their service delivery models in response to public health and safety threats. Transitioning to remote work was a popular organizational response. The pandemic has likely changed service delivery models for good, with some organizations considering permanently closing in-person offices as a cost-saving measure. Remote work has also been viewed as a hiring tool as more employees show an interest in working from home. However, despite this interest, remote work may not be suitable for all employees. This study investigates the relationship between the Big Five dimensions of personality and eight job performance criteria (job knowledge, organizational skills, efficiency, persistent effort, cooperation, organizational conscientiousness, interpersonal and relational skills) in an all-remote work environment. The research consists of 201 responses from fully remote employees in the Canada Pension Centre to a survey designed to collect personality and job performance data. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with members of the management team to bolster research findings. Conclusions confirmed a positive relationship continues to exist between personality and job performance in fully remote work environments and that Conscientiousness and Openness to new experiences are associated with higher organizational outcomes in a remote work environment. The study also concluded that employees with access to outdoor spaces, such as yards or balconies, reported higher overall job performance. This research combines past research on personality, job performance, and remote work. It examines the relationship between personality and job performance in a fully remote workforce, specifically the use of personality to predict job performance measured in terms of task and contextual productivity. The findings add to the current literature on personality, job performance, remote work, and research on the effects of the pandemic on organizations. Results reaffirm a one-size-fits-all approach to organizational design may not improve overall organizational outcomes. Organizations can use these findings to aid in recruitment, productivity decisions, and designing the workplace of the future.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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