SELF-ESTEEM AND JOB PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SELF-ESTEEM CONTINGENCIES

SELF-ESTEEM AND JOB PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SELF-ESTEEM CONTINGENCIES

Although theoretical perspectives suggest self‐esteem level (i.e., high/low) should have main and moderating effects on job performance, empirical and narrative reviews of the literature suggest such effects are either nonexistent or highly variable. To account for these mixed findings, we hypothesi...

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Published in:Personnel psychology Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 561 - 593
Main Authors: FERRIS, D. LANCE, LIAN, HUIWEN, BROWN, DOUGLAS J., PANG, FIONA X. J., KEEPING, LISA M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01-09-2010
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects:
Behavior
Beliefs
Correlation analysis
Hypotheses
Job performance
Literature Reviews
Meta Analysis
Organizational behavior
Organizational Objectives
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Role Conflict
Self Efficacy
Self esteem
Self Evaluation (Individuals)
Studies
Variables
Canada
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Summary:Although theoretical perspectives suggest self‐esteem level (i.e., high/low) should have main and moderating effects on job performance, empirical and narrative reviews of the literature suggest such effects are either nonexistent or highly variable. To account for these mixed findings, we hypothesized that self‐esteem level should only have main and moderating effects on job performance when one's self‐esteem is not contingent upon workplace performance. Using multisource ratings across 2 samples of working adults, we found that the importance of performance to self‐esteem (IPSE) moderated the effect of self‐esteem level on job performance and moderated the buffering interaction between self‐esteem level and role conflict in the prediction of job performance. Our results thus support IPSE as an important moderator of both main and moderating effects of self‐esteem level.
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We thank Neal Ashkanasy, Don Ferrin, Layne Paddock, and Jochen Reb for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper. We also thank Affan Usmani and Randall Marsh for their assistance with data collection. This research was supported in part by grants from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to the first and fourth authors.
ISSN:0031-5826
1744-6570
DOI:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2010.01181.x