Recruiting mid-qualified workers in product-innovating firms: Which personality traits matter?

IF 1.6 3区 经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS
Luisa Minssen , Mark Levels , Harald Pfeifer , Caroline Wehner
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Abstract

Change in the work context is an important characteristic of product-innovating firms, and the innovation's profitability often depends on the workers’ adaptive capability to cope with change. Personality traits shape the individual adaptive capability. Nevertheless, the current economic recruitment literature does not discuss personality trait-oriented recruitment in product-innovating firms. We investigate whether recruiters in product-innovating firms prefer mid-qualified job applicants with certain Big Five personality traits. We conduct a discrete choice experiment among 799 firms in Germany and use mixed logit models to estimate the heterogeneous personality preferences of recruiters by distinguishing between firms performing i) radical and ii) incremental product innovations. We find that recruiters prefer more emotionally stable workers regardless of the firm's innovation type. However, recruiters from firms engaging in radical innovations also prefer more conscientious applicants. Our findings have practical implications for firms, applicants and policy makers designing training curricula, because we show that recruiters from product-innovating firms consider personality trait-oriented recruitment not only for high-qualified workers but also for mid-qualified workers.

在产品创新型企业中招聘中级员工:哪些人格特质很重要?
工作环境的变化是产品创新企业的一个重要特征,而创新的盈利能力往往取决于工人应对变化的适应能力。人格特质决定了个人的适应能力。然而,目前的经济学招聘文献并未讨论产品创新型企业中以人格特质为导向的招聘。我们研究了产品创新型企业的招聘人员是否偏好具有某些大五人格特质的合格中层求职者。我们在德国的 799 家企业中进行了离散选择实验,并使用混合 logit 模型来估计招聘人员的异质性人格偏好,将企业区分为进行激进型产品创新的企业和进行渐进型产品创新的企业。我们发现,无论企业的创新类型如何,招聘人员都更喜欢情绪稳定的员工。然而,从事激进创新的企业的招聘人员也更喜欢认真负责的求职者。我们的研究结果对企业、求职者和政策制定者设计培训课程具有实际意义,因为我们表明,产品创新型企业的招聘人员不仅会考虑以人格特质为导向招聘高素质员工,而且也会考虑招聘中等素质员工。
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CiteScore
2.60
自引率
12.50%
发文量
113
审稿时长
83 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly the Journal of Socio-Economics) welcomes submissions that deal with various economic topics but also involve issues that are related to other social sciences, especially psychology, or use experimental methods of inquiry. Thus, contributions in behavioral economics, experimental economics, economic psychology, and judgment and decision making are especially welcome. The journal is open to different research methodologies, as long as they are relevant to the topic and employed rigorously. Possible methodologies include, for example, experiments, surveys, empirical work, theoretical models, meta-analyses, case studies, and simulation-based analyses. Literature reviews that integrate findings from many studies are also welcome, but they should synthesize the literature in a useful manner and provide substantial contribution beyond what the reader could get by simply reading the abstracts of the cited papers. In empirical work, it is important that the results are not only statistically significant but also economically significant. A high contribution-to-length ratio is expected from published articles and therefore papers should not be unnecessarily long, and short articles are welcome. Articles should be written in a manner that is intelligible to our generalist readership. Book reviews are generally solicited but occasionally unsolicited reviews will also be published. Contact the Book Review Editor for related inquiries.
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