American International Journal of Social Science

The Use of Personality Measures in Personnel Selection: The Person-Job Fit and Its Relationship to Leaders’ Performance and Burnout
Hanna Peltokangas

Abstract
The purpose of this research was to find out if there is a significant association between the actual personality and the preferred personality that the job requires to the leader’s performance and burnout symptoms. This study examines this problematic based on the person-job (PJ) fit theory. Survey data was collected from 95 leaders of a global manufacturing organization (n=52) and a multitechnological applied research organization (n=44). The result did support the PJ fit theory that the more similar the leader’s personality is to the preferred profile that the job requires the less the leader’s experience burnout feeling and the better the leader’s work performance. The results also appear to give support to the suggestion that the grounds of an effective performance and burnout symptoms at leadership level could be different from each other. In this study there were no personality dimension which would have a meaningful association to both burnout and the leader’s performance.

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