Predicting Counterproductive Performance Among Temporary Workers: A Note

Using prehire biographic and work history data, temporary help agency workers (N= 201) were classified as marginal or satisfactory. Marginal temps had characteristics suggesting poor work histories and willingness to accept any kind of employment. In prior jobs, they were paid less and more likely t...

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Published in:Industrial relations (Berkeley) Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 550 - 554
Main Authors: POSTHUMA, RICHARD A., CAMPION, MICHAEL A., VARGAS, AMBER L.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing, Ltd 01.07.2005
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Subjects:
Behavior
Classification
Demography
Dismissals
Employees
Employment
Job characteristics
Job losses
Job Performance
Labour relations
Life history
Occupations
Predictions
Studies
Temporary employees
Temporary Employment
Unsafe
Work
Work Experience
Work histories
Workers
ISSN:0019-8676, 1468-232X
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Summary:Using prehire biographic and work history data, temporary help agency workers (N= 201) were classified as marginal or satisfactory. Marginal temps had characteristics suggesting poor work histories and willingness to accept any kind of employment. In prior jobs, they were paid less and more likely to have been laid off. They had also been temps for longer periods of time, and were more willing to work weekends and nights. The classification of temps as marginal versus satisfactory was validated using posthire data, showing that marginal temps had lower performance evaluations, and exhibited more counterproductive behaviors (e.g., late, absent, unsafe, or careless).
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The authors' affiliations are, respectively, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, Purdue University, Krannert Graduate School of Management, West Lafayette, Indiana, and RM Personnel, El Paso, Texas. E-mail: rposthuma@utep.edu, campionm@mgmt.purdue.edu, and amberm@rmpersonnel.com.
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rposthuma@utep.edu
The authors’ affiliations are, respectively, College of Business Administration, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, Purdue University, Krannert Graduate School of Management, West Lafayette, Indiana, and RM Personnel, El Paso, Texas. E‐mail
amberm@rmpersonnel.com
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campionm@mgmt.purdue.edu
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ISSN:0019-8676
1468-232X
DOI:10.1111/j.0019-8676.2005.00400.x