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name: Investigating how individual differences in organisations are associated with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation : a quantitative study in Jordan's Middle Eastern context
description: For this PhD thesis, individual differences in the workplace are studied, with the focus being on the key personality characteristics and styles identified in the field of business and organisational psychology: the Big Five, Team Roles, Conflict Management Styles, and Decision Making Styles. Some personality characteristics and styles have been identified as ‘healthy’ and productive, whilst others are considered ‘unhealthy’ and dysfunctional. Measuring individual differences in the workplace is seen as highly beneficial in view of its diagnostic potential. Furthermore, these constructs have been found to be significantly associated with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation. The literature is scant with regards to studying these constructs under one umbrella to investigate their associations with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation. Moreover, most of the evidence, to date, has been collected in Western contexts and studies from Middle Eastern countries are rare. The aim of this thesis is to address this research gap, by presenting a series of studies from Jordan – a collectivist society, which is becoming increasingly important in terms of economic growth and companies’ roles in the world market. Specifically, three empirical studies are presented that examine the structure of these individual differences constructs and how they are associated with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation. For Study 1, the structure of individual differences constructs is investigated using a sample recruited from two of the top 20 companies in Jordan: a shipping and logistics company (n=224) and a telecommunications company (n=219). Confirmatory Factor Analyses largely confirmed the factorial structures found in studies in Western cultures: The big five were measured with the short and a longer version of the Big Five Inventory (i.e. BFI-10 and BFI-44), and a 5-factor structure was confirmed for the…
abstract: For this PhD thesis, individual differences in the workplace are studied, with the focus being on the key personality characteristics and styles identified in the field of business and organisational psychology: the Big Five, Team Roles, Conflict Management Styles, and Decision Making Styles. Some personality characteristics and styles have been identified as ‘healthy’ and productive, whilst others are considered ‘unhealthy’ and dysfunctional. Measuring individual differences in the workplace is seen as highly beneficial in view of its diagnostic potential. Furthermore, these constructs have been found to be significantly associated with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation. The literature is scant with regards to studying these constructs under one umbrella to investigate their associations with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation. Moreover, most of the evidence, to date, has been collected in Western contexts and studies from Middle Eastern countries are rare. The aim of this thesis is to address this research gap, by presenting a series of studies from Jordan – a collectivist society, which is becoming increasingly important in terms of economic growth and companies’ roles in the world market. Specifically, three empirical studies are presented that examine the structure of these individual differences constructs and how they are associated with employee performance, job satisfaction and climate for innovation. For Study 1, the structure of individual differences constructs is investigated using a sample recruited from two of the top 20 companies in Jordan: a shipping and logistics company (n=224) and a telecommunications company (n=219). Confirmatory Factor Analyses largely confirmed the factorial structures found in studies in Western cultures: The big five were measured with the short and a longer version of the Big Five Inventory (i.e. BFI-10 and BFI-44), and a 5-factor structure was confirmed for the…
author: Mereish, S.
date published: 2020
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:01:25Z
provider: University of Westminster
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Westminster

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value: 10.34737/vqv36