Extern validitet hos personlighetstest kan studeras genom att testet ställs motvariabler som mäter arbetsprestation. Syftet med studien var att undersökavaliditeten hos det arbetslivspsykologiska personlighetstestet UPP (Sjöberg,2008). Ett hundra anställda inom polisen, varav 50 kvinnor, tog testet via enInternetplatform. Som externa kriterier användes i studie 1 (N = 100)polisens lönekriterier och i studie 2 (N = 46) ett objektivt kriterium i form avantal förhör för utredare. Resultaten indikerar att vissa variabler i UPPtestetvisade tillfredsställande validitet mot de externa kriterierna.Emotionell stabilitet uppvisade tillfredsställande validitet mot kriterierna ienlighet med tidigare forskning. Noggrannhet uppvisade negativa sambandmed två av kriterierna vilket inte bekräftar tidigare forskning. Flera av UPPtestetsspecifika variabler uppvisade lika god validitet eller bättre jämförtmed de generella variablerna enligt FFM. Särskilt en av de sammansattavariablerna, stresskänslighet, utgjorde en prediktor för arbetsprestation.Vikten av tillgången till goda kriterier för validitetsforskningen diskuteras. / The external validity of personality tests can be studied by comparing testvariables to variables measuring job performance. The purpose of this studywas to examine the validity of the employment psychological personalitytest UPP (Sjöberg, 2008). One hundred police employees, including 50women, performed the test through an Internet platform. External criteriawere in study 1 (N = 100) police salary criteria and in study 2 (N = 46) anobjective criterion in terms of number of interrogations for investigators.The results indicate that some variables in the UPP-test showed satisfactoryvalidity against external criteria. Emotional stability showed satisfactoryvalidity against criteria in line with previous research. Conscientiousnessshowed negative correlations with two of the criteria which do not confirmprevious research. Several of the UPP-test specific variables showed equallygood or better validity compared with the general variables according toFFM. The importance of the availability of good criteria for validityresearch is discussed.

Occupational safety has once again become an inviting area of research and application for organizational researchers. Researchers have abandoned the search for the accident-prone employee and begun to identify the underlying symptoms that might lead to unsafe behaviors and accidents. The current research built upon theory and recent findings by integrating regulatory focus theory into an interactional model of occupational safety and productivity in an attempt to explain and predict safety performance and speed performance. Using a sample of facility workers (i.e., building and landscape development and maintenance, n = 251) a cross-level model of relationships was investigated that links facets of conscientiousness (dependability and achievement) and climate (safety and productivity) to facets of performance (safety and speed) via regulatory focus (prevention and promotion). Results indicated that both climates and personality facets were important predictors of prevention while achievement and production climate predicted promotion. In turn prevention positively predicted safety and negatively predicted speed while promotion positively predicted speed and negatively predicted safety. Most interesting were the findings that prevention carried the effects of both climates and conscientiousness facets to safety and speed performance and promotion carried the effects of production and achievement to speed and safety performance. Results failed to support any cross-level interactions between climate and personality in predicting regulatory focus. It appears that regulatory focus is indeed an important construct in occupational safety and that both individual and contextual characteristics uniquely play an important role in predicting ones regulatory focus.

Foreign labors are important to Taiwan¡¦s manufacturing industries as most of them are taking 3D (Dirty, Dangerous, and Difficult) jobs or night shifts. Previous researches have put attention on the influences of human resource management (HRM) practices on foreign labors¡¦ adaptability or job performance. There is comparatively lesser researches focus on the mediating and moderating variables between foreigner labors¡¦ HRM practices and their performance. Based on the framework of hierarchical HRM, this study aims to explore the mediating effect of foreign worker readiness and the moderating effect of agent involvement on the relationship between foreign labor HRM practices and their job performance. Due to lack of empirical researches related to agent¡¦s involvement, hence this study first applied to qualitative research method to explore the construct and create the measurement and then used quantitative research method to examine the hypotheses. According to the data from Kaohsiung city manufacturing enterprises (total 50 sets of samples; including 50 HR heads and 373 foreign workers), the results revealed that: 1. The relationship between HRM practices and foreign labors¡¦ job performance. (1) Training & education practices are positively related to foreign labors¡¦ job performance. (2) Incentive practices are positively related to foreign labors¡¦ job performance. (3) Accommodation management practices are positively related to foreign labors¡¦ job performance. 2. The relationship among HRM practices, foreign labor¡¦s readiness and job performance. (1) Recruitment and selection management practices are positively related to foreign labors¡¦ job readiness. (2) Foreign labors¡¦ job readiness is positively related to their job readiness. (3) Recruitment and selection management practices are positively related to foreign labors¡¦ job performance through their job readiness. 3. The relationship among agent involvement, foreign labor¡¦s HRM practices, foreign labor¡¦s readiness and job performance. (1) Agent involvement positively moderates the relationships between training & education management practices and foreign labors¡¦ job performance. (2) Agent involvement positively moderates the relationships between incentive practices and foreign labors¡¦ job performance Base on these findings, we suggests that practitioners should improve the oversea recruitment and selection practices for promoting foreign labors¡¦ readiness and ensuring their job performance. Practitioners can also strengthen the magnitude of education & training, incentives and accommodation management to promote foreign labors¡¦ performance. For enhancing the management effectiveness, practitioners should work closely with the agent in education & training and incentive practices. For the future researches, we suggest that longitudinal research design could further inspect the causal-effect relationship between HRM practices and performance. Furthermore, researches can also expand the sources of data to enhance the generalizability of the results.

Abstract In this increasingly complex and competitive environment, Enterprise in order to match sustainable development and grow, more emphasis on "human is a great asset to the organization" concept, but there just is not enough, but also have to maximize its utility, for achieving organizational goals, how to understand and meet the needs of employees, to maintain good labor relations to enhance employee productivity, is a very important issue in today's business, and many positions in front-line operational staff in the company in terms of more like a corporate image, take the organization's sales performance and goals, So, how to encourage sales effectively, achieve organizational goals and performance is very important. So, Achievement of organizational goals, operations staff motivation, job satisfaction, individual performance and organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior is very closely. This study used survey method asked coupons for A securities company in Taiwan, issued 341 questionnaires, retrieved 294 questionnaires. The results showed as below: 1. Income and significant differences between the incentives to work. 2. Regional and significant differences between the incentives to work. 3. Regional and significant differences between job satisfaction. 4. Motivation and significant relationship between job performance. 5. Between job satisfaction and job performance has a significant relationship. 6. Organizational commitment in between job satisfaction and job performance has a significant effect of interference. 7. Organizational citizenship behavior in between job satisfaction and job performance has a significant effect of interference. The study, based on the above findings, further discussion and practice of the recommendations for reference.

This investigation is followed Ferris et al. (2002) proposed revised modeling of organizational politics perceptions, and based on structural equation modeling to study the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics and job performance, and the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Further research whether the perception of organizational politics influence job performance by the mediating effects of organizational commitment and job satisfaction. A survey research is conducted using the analysis data of Professor, Mr. Chin-Ming Ho research group of perceptions of organizational politics in 2008. After evidence-based results, the findings are as follows: 1. Perceptions of organizational politics has no significant effect three dimensions, "general political behavior", "going along and getting ahead", "the difference between politics and practices", of job performance . 2. Perceptions of organizational politics has no significant effect on "general political behavior" of organizational commitment, but has negative effect on "going along and getting ahead" and "the difference between politics and practices". 3. Perceptions of organizational politics has significant negative effect on job satisfaction. 4. Organizational commitment has positive impact on job performance. 5. Job satisfaction has positive impact on job performance. 6. Organizational commitment and job satisfaction are the intervening variables for perceptions of organizational politics and job performance.

The study applied for a social network analysis tool and HLM method to analysis cross level dataset which will specify an integrated ¡¥meso¡¦ framework of linking diversified relationships and employees¡¦ attitudes and behavior within the work group settings. The effective sample size of this study collected by whole completed survey involved 317 employees within 26 different workgroups representing diversified industries in Taiwan. This study provided evidence that density of informal development network (informal network, advice network, and mentoring network) are related to both employees¡¦ intention to stay and individual job performance. As hypothesized, both In-degree centrality of advice network was positively related to individual job performance. Perceived career success was positively related to in-degree centrality of advice network. In-degree centrality of friendship network was negatively related to intention to stay. Furthermore, Density of mentoring network will be positively related to intention to stay and individual job performance. Density of advice network was related negatively to individual job performance and density of friendship was related positively to individual job performance. The effect of in-degree centrality of advice network on individual job performance will be partially mediated by mediating variable - perceived career success as well as the effect of in-degree centrality of friendship network will be partially mediated by mediating variable - perceived career success.

Due to the social environment transition and the health care reform, hospital¡¦s transformation has made the high cost nurse resource of the medical organization issue. While facing salary pressure and nursing shortages, nursing leadership has taken an important role in stabilizing/establishing a positive work environment and maintaining good health care quality and job performance. In the past, personality and leadership have been proved to relate to job performance, but few studies show the relationship between these three variables. This study investigates which dimensions of the Five-Factor Model of personality of the head nurse (HN) are related to job performance. This study also analyzes the HN and investigates whether leadership style moderates personality-job performance relations. This study carried out a survey research and secondary date analysis in three regional hospitals of Kaohsiung-Pingtung area. The sample included 35 HN and 174 nurses who worked with their HN for over 6 months. t-test was used to examine the difference of personalities and leadership style in different demographic variables. In addition, the Tobit regression model explained significant portions of variance in these criterions. Results support the hypothesis that openness and extraversion are positively related to job performance. Results also support the hypothesis that consideration is appeared to moderate relationships between openness and job performance. This study show that personality influences job performance. Moreover, it shows that the leadership style could be the moderator between personality and job performance. This study suggested that personality might be a crucial factor in selection and recruiting of head nurses. In addition, providing training in leadership will facilitate the job performance. This study suggests that future studies should increase the sample size in terms of decision making units as well as random selection from different hospital levels.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the employers¡¦ perception of monthly bonus profit sharing mechanism on the ratio of job quitting, job morale and job performance of a selected company. We set up testing hypotheses based on the selected company and collect data through questionnaire. The following three testing hypothesis are examined in the thesis. They are whether monthly bonus profit sharing mechanism can effectively decrease job quitting ratio, increase job morale and job performance. Our empirical results support employers¡¦ perception that the profit sharing mechanism is helpful to decrease job quitting ratio as well as to increase job morale and performance.

Title: The effect of personality of woman personal products sales force on job performance-The mediating role of adaptive selling behavior Student: Han-Lin Lu Advisor: Dr. I-Heng Chen For sales-oriented firms, sales force is the key factor in organization to be sustainable, so how to manage sales force effectively and incentive them to improve their performance is the important topic. This study focused on sales force personality relation between job performance. Secondly, understanding the adaptive selling behavior impact on their personality and job performance. This study survey the famous underwear company sales force, process descriptive statistical analysis, reliability analysis, ANOVA analysis and regression analysis for data analysis, by the above analysis, this study obtained the following conclusions: 1. Playfulness has positive influence on adaptive selling behavior, but doesn¡¦t have significant relationship between job performance. 2. Big five doesn¡¦t have significant relationship either between job performance, or on adaptive selling behavior. 3. Personality has significant positive influence on adaptive selling behavior, that shows personality has the impact on job performance through the behavior. 4. Adaptive selling behavior has significant positive influence on job performance. It means when sales force has more adaptive selling behaviors helps improve job performance.

In order to enhance newcomers' retention and performance, the present study explored the moderating roles of mentoring and newcomers' personality (conscientiousness and emotional stability) on the relationships between newcomers' perceived person-job fit, (P-J fit) person-organization fit (P-O fit) and their task performance and turnover intentions. The data was collected from newcomers who have passed probation with their organizational tenure less than one year. In total, 198 usable questionnaires were collected from 20 firms in Taiwan. The present study applied the hierarchical regression analysis to test our hypotheses. The results showed that: (1) when mentoring relationship is low, the positive relationship between newcomer P-J fit and task performance is strengthened; (2) when conscientiousness and emotional stability are high, the negative relationship between newcomers P-O fit and turnover intentions is strengthened; (3) the interaction between newcomer P-J fit and P-O fit is positively related to task performance. Based on our findings, we proposed several practical implications as below: (1) organizations should pay attention to newcomers¡¦ P-J, P-O fit, and their socialization processes; (2) using selection tools to hire newcomers with high conscientiousness and emotional stability; (3) organizations should apply different socialization practice for newcomers with different attributes.