The Effects of Personality Dissimilarity on Mission Readiness

Abstract

Emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment are factors that have an impact on mission readiness. In a study of 8,906 uniformed Department of Defense (DOD) personnel, the authors proposed and tested a conditional process model that describes a psychological process in which (a) personality dissimilarity in terms of agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability affects organizational commitment indirectly through emotional exhaustion, and (b) a favorable unit diversity climatean aspect of the command climatereduce s the negative impact of personality dissimilarity on mission readiness. Hence, it (a) describes how personality dissimilarity affects emotional exhaustion and organizational commitment, and (b) identifies a contextual factor affected by unit leadership that determines for whom this process is most important. These results point to the importance of creating and sustaining a strong and favorable diversity climate in the work unit and therefore suggest opportunities for the development of leaders in the DOD.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1044664

Entities

People

  • Amanda Palmer
  • Daniel P. Mcdonald
  • Lawrence A. Witt

Organizations

  • Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Commerce
  • Demography
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Ethnic Groups
  • Human Resources
  • Management Personnel
  • Minority Groups
  • New York
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Teamwork

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Organizational Psychology.