A Study On Managers'Cconscientiousness

The purposes of research are to investigate the structure of managers, conscientiousness ,the relations between their conscientiousness and job performance as well as the difference in the dimension of conscientiousness among different managers. For these purposes, some standard research methods, such as regression analysis, correlation analysis and exploratory factor analysis are employed. More than 230 managers have been surveyed.The conclusions drawn by this study are as follows:First, analyses of reliability and validity of the new instrument indicate that the managers, conscientiousness scale is a reliable and valid instrument composed of 6 factors: service tendency, managerial skills, individual morality, planning, dependability, and achievement tendency. The result shows that the conclusions of the research share some similarities with the research in foreign countries and difference as well.Second, by using the ways of regression analysis, the author finds that service tendency and dependability do good to the predictive effects of interpersonal facilitation; service tendency, individual morality and planning do good to the predictive effects of task performance; individual morality, planning and achievement tendency are helped for the predictive effects of job performance. In addition, managers, conscientiousness do better to the prediction of contextual performance than to that of task performanceï¼›managers, conscientiousness do better to the prediction of interpersonal facilitation than to that of both task performance and job dedication.Third, by using ANOVA and T-test, the author finds that unmarried and married managers are distinct in the dimension of their conscientiousness. Sex, age, years of schooling, period of work, unit size all play important roles in making managers different in some or a few dimensions of six sub-dimensions of conscientiousness.