Nitzl, Christian and Sicilia, MariaFrancesca and Steccolini, Ileana (2024) Personality Traits and the Use of Performance Information: Enthusiastic and Diligent Public Managers. International Public Management Journal. pp. 1-24. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2024.2323580
Nitzl, Christian and Sicilia, MariaFrancesca and Steccolini, Ileana (2024) Personality Traits and the Use of Performance Information: Enthusiastic and Diligent Public Managers. International Public Management Journal. pp. 1-24. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2024.2323580
Nitzl, Christian and Sicilia, MariaFrancesca and Steccolini, Ileana (2024) Personality Traits and the Use of Performance Information: Enthusiastic and Diligent Public Managers. International Public Management Journal. pp. 1-24. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2024.2323580
Abstract
Drawing on a survey of 385 municipal public managers in Italy, this article investigates the potential association between managers’ personality traits and their use of performance information. Using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), the results show that cons cientiousness, extraversion, and openness emerge as relevant personality traits that help explain public managers’ use of performance information. Moreover, the study points to the presence of two distinct groups of users of performance information, which we label “enthusiastic” and “diligent” managers. For “enthusiastic managers”, performance information use is mainly associated with extraversion and openness, while for “diligent managers”, conscientiousness and agreeableness drive its use. Implications for the theory and practice of performance management are discussed.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Essex Business School |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2024 14:50 |
Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2024 14:50 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37871 |
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