Rätt person på rätt plats: Sambandet mellan personlighet, yrkesval och arbetstrivsel

Sammanfattning: This study investigated the relation between Extraversion and Conscientiousness with job satisfaction and job selection in the two occupational groups of telemarketing and administration. The study also set out to explore the relation between social desirability as assessed with an Implicit Association Test (IAT) and total reaction time on the IAT. The questionnaire was administered over the Internet to forty-one subjects (24 women and 17 men) in the age range 16-65. Results indicated that people working with telemarketing tend to be extrovert while people working with administration often are conscientious. Job satisfaction correlated with Extraversion in the telemarketing group. Both groups? values on the Extraversion scale correlated with job satisfaction, but when self-deception was inserted as a covariate the correlation disappeared. Furthermore, social desirability did show significant correlations with the total reaction time.