Central European Management Journal

Personality metatraits and managerial AC dimensions in assessment center performance: the moderating effect of age in strong and weak VUCA simulations

Baczyńska, Anna Katarzyna Skoczeń, Ilona Thornton III George Chen, Shihua

Kozminski University, Poland | Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland | Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA | SILC Business School, Shanghai, China

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Abstrakt

Purpose – We investigated the relationship between personality and managerial assessment center (AC) dimensions, emphasizing age’s moderating role within volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity (VUCA) simulations.
Design/methodology/approach – We analyzed 327 managers and applied the AC method, examining areas like social skills, problem-solving, management and goal striving, openness to change, employee development using the VUCA framework.
Findings – We assessed personality metatraits through a questionnaire based on the circumplex model (CPM; Strus, Cieciuch, & Rowinski, 2014), identifying four bipolar metatraits. Results highlighted passiveness and disharmony as negatively correlated with all managerial AC dimensions, with passiveness adversely affecting social skills and problem-solving.
Originality/value – Age’s moderating role emerged as pivotal in the relationship between personality and managerial AC dimensions, especially in specific VUCA contexts. This underscores age’s influence on the interplay between personality and managerial efficacy, suggesting varying predictive capabilities across age groups. The research illuminates the complexities of these relationships, spotlighting age’snuanced impact.

Metadane

Czasopismo Central European Management Journal 
Tom 32 
Numer 2 
Typ Article 
Język en
Paginacja 179-198
DOI 10.1108/CEMJ-06-2023-0274
ISSN 2658-0845
eISSN 2658-2430