Studies in the United States and Europe have investigated the relationship of the Five- Factor Model of personality to effectiveness for domestic managers. This article reports on the relationship of the Five-Factor Model of personality to job performance for a group of Middle Eastern expatriate managers. Job performance ratings from the expatriate’s host- and home-country bosses indicate that agreeableness and conscientiousness were related to home-country ratings of job performance, but not host-country ratings.
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