title: Predicting the performance and innovativeness of scientists and engineers.
abstract: A study of 644 scientists and engineers from 5 corporate research and development organizations investigated hypotheses generated from an interactionist framework of 4 individual characteristics as longitudinal predictors of performance and innovativeness. An innovative orientation predicted 1-year-later and 5-years-later supervisory job performance ratings and 5-years-later counts of patents and publications. An internal locus of control predicted 5-years-later patents and publications, and self-esteem predicted performance ratings for both times and patents. Team-level nonroutine tasks moderated the individual-level relationships between an innovative orientation and performance ratings and patents such that the relationships were stronger in a nonroutine task environment. Implications for an interactionist framework of performance and innovativeness for knowledge workers are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management, C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-6021, USA. keller@uh.edu
authors.forename: Robert T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Keller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003405:Creativity; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D004738:Engineering; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010330:Patents as Topic; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011642:Publications; D012586:Science; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce