Personality Predictors of Work Performance

The presented work is devoted to the study of personal predictors of the success of the professional activity. The sample included 209 respondents who are employees of a large state organization. The sample includes representatives of different levels of positions: from an ordinary employee to a block manager. Dispositional optimism, resilience, work motivation, self-efficacy, self-control, vectors of eudemonic and hedonic motivation were selected as personal predictors. To study the success of the activity, three objective indicators were selected, such as the level of efficiency of the KPI, the manager's assessment, and the assessment of RECORDS (the final annual assessment of the employee). Correlation analysis, factor analysis, regression analysis, and variance analysis were used as methods of statistical analysis. These research methods allowed not only to build a regression model that reflects the possible influence of variables on the success of the activity but also to characterize the resulting relationships within the model and describe its structure. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the components of autonomous motivation, resilience, dispositional optimism, and self-efficacy are the most powerful predictors of the success of the professional activity. In this paper, it was proved that there is a relationship between the success of the activity and the eudemonic motivation of the individual in the presented sample for the first time.