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The Role Of Personality Traits On Goal Commitment: A Moderation Analysis, Matthew Hendrick Mellegers
The Role Of Personality Traits On Goal Commitment: A Moderation Analysis, Matthew Hendrick Mellegers
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Managers and researchers alike have long yearned for a solution to garner peak performance from employees. With the use Locke and Latham’s goal setting theory as a motivational foundational principle, goal commitment was predicted from four primary personality traits commonly found in scientific literature: general self-efficacy, conscientiousness, honesty/humility, and learning goal orientation. The possible moderation effect of goal difficulty on these relationships was also explored. 248 undergraduate students at California State University, San Bernardino were presented personality inventories, followed by an anagram word task, and were assigned to either an easy or hard goal condition. Goal commitment was measured at …