Predicting the Performance of New Hires: The Role of Humility, Interpersonal Understanding, Self-Confidence, and Flexibility

Debolina Dutta (), Chaitali Vedak () and Varghees Joseph ()
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Debolina Dutta: Indian Institute of Management
Chaitali Vedak: Indian Institute of Management
Varghees Joseph: Indian Institute of Management

A chapter in State of the Art in Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), 2023, pp 239-244 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract High performance of new hires is of imminent interest to organizations. Therefore, understanding antecedents that enhance job performance among new hires would be of interest to research and practice. However, there are contradictory and limited studies focusing on relevant traits of new hires that improve on-job performance. Drawing on Human Capital Theory, we argue that job applicants demonstrating humility, accompanied by interpersonal understanding, self-confidence, and flexibility deliver higher on-job performance. We find that humility is a significant predictor of job performance through a longitudinal field survey spanning 16 months, using multisource data of 205 real job applicants and their performance ratings, analyzed using PLS-SEM: since it allows the researchers to examine the relationships between multiple latent variables (i.e., humility, interpersonal understanding, self-confidence, and flexibility) and a single observed variable (i.e., new hire performance) in a single model. Further, humility wholly mediates the effect of interpersonal understanding, self-confidence, and flexibility on new hire performance.

Keywords: New-hire performance; Humility; Recruitment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-34589-0_23

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