The two faces of conscientiousness: duty and achievement striving in escalation of commitment dilemmas.
The author proposes that 2 facets of conscientiousness, duty and achievement striving, affect decision makers in escalation of commitment dilemmas in opposing ways, thus masking the predictive ability of a broad measure of conscientiousness. It is proposed that duty is associated with an other-centered orientation and that achievement striving is associated with a self-centered orientation. Analyses of decisions from 360 respondents showed that duty was associated with a deescalation of commitment, achievement striving was associated with an escalation of commitment, and the broad measure of conscientiousness was unassociated with commitment. The author advocates the utility of understanding potential self-centered versus other-centered aspects of the criterion of interest when conducting personality-based research.
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Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824-1122, USA. moonhenr@pilot.msu.edu
D000328:Adult; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012649:Self Concept; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis