Pre-employment good impression and subsequent job performance

摘要

Purposen – Previous research has not demonstrated a consistent relationship between pre-employment measures of good impression (GI) response bias and subsequent job performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the likelihood that such effects would be present for the extremes of the GI dimension, noting that opposite predictions about these effects would be made from the two competing conceptions of GI: motivational and positive self-presentation. nDesign/methodology/approachn – Three groups were studied in which the job performance was investigated for high and low pre-employment GI scorers (nttttt>ntttt1 and nttttt