Under the broad rubric of strategy-culture alignment, L. A. Witt investigates how
leaders can adapt their motivational approaches to match the personalities of their
employees and characteristics of the business unit, overall organization, and business
environment.

Personality and Performance

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The interactive effects of conscientiousness and agreeableness on job performance, Journal of Applied Psychology (2002)
 

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The interactive effects of extroversion and conscientiousness on job performance, Journal of Management (2002)
 

Configural Nature of Personality

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Personality and reactions to organizational politics, Politics in Organizations (2012)
 

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A review of personality and performance: Identifying boundaries, contingencies, and future research directions, Human Resources Management Review (2011)
 

Leadership

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The downside of goal-focused leadership: The role of personality in subordinate exhaustion, Journal of Applied Psychology (2010)
 

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The role of goal-focused leadership in enabling the expression of conscientiousness, Journal of Applied Psychology (2009)
 

Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)

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An examination of the curvilinear relationship between leader-member exchange and intent to turnover, Journal of Organizational Behavior (2005)
 

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The impact of leader-member exchange on communication type, frequency, and performance ratings, Journal of Applied Psychology (2003)
 

Social Effectiveness

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Social skill as moderator of the conscientiousness-performance relationship: Convergent results across four studies, Journal of Applied Psychology (2003)
 

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Interaction of social skill and general mental ability on job performance and salary, Journal of Applied Psychology (2001)
 

Customer Service

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Service employees give as they get: Internal service as a moderator of the service climate-service outcomes link, Journal of Applied Psychology (2011)
 

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When conscientiousness isn’t enough: Emotional exhaustion and call volume performance among call center customer service representatives, Journal of Management (2004)
 

Work-Family Balance

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Supervisor appraisal as the link between family-work balance and contextual performance, Journal of Business and Psychology (2008)
 

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The work-family interface and job performance: Moderating effects of conscientiousness and perceived organizational support, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology (2006)
 

Counterproductive Work Behavior

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Interactive effects of personality and situation on workplace deviance, Journal of Applied Psychology (2004)
 

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Personality and high-maintenance behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology (2004)
 

Organizational Politics

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Interactive effects of personality and organizational politics on contextual performance, Journal of Organizational Behavior (2002)
 

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Enhancing organizational goal congruence: A solution to organizational politics, Journal of Applied Psychology (1998)
 

Job Performance

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When does adaptive performance lead to higher task performance, Journal of Organizational Behavior (2011)
 

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P = f (Ability x Conscientiousness): Examining the facets of conscientiousness, Human Performance (2010)
 

Organizational Support

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Person-situation predictors of maximum and typical performance, Human Performance (2007)
 

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Interaction of social skill and organizational support on job performance, Journal of Applied Psychology (2006)
 

Occupational Health

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General job performance of first-line supervisors: The role of conscientiousness in determining its effects on subordinate exhaustion, Stress & Health (2010)
 

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The interactive effect of extraversion and extraversion dissimilarity on emotional exhaustion: A test of the asymmetry hypothesis, Personality and Individual Differences (2010)
 

Diversity

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The role of age in the perceptions of politics-job performance relationship: A three-study constructive replication, Journal of Applied Psychology (2005)
 

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Gender and the relationship between perceived fairness of pay/promotion and job satisfaction, Journal of Applied Psychology (1992)
 

Employee Selection and Training

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Assessing the cost of underperformance: A computer programmer example, The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist (2011)
 

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Incremental validity of empirically keyed biodata scales over GMA and the five factor personality constructs, Personnel Psychology (2000)
 

Safety

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Some effects of 8- vs. 10-hour work schedules on the test performance/alertness of air traffic control specialists, Journal of Industrial Ergonomics (1998)
 

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Where the safety rubber meets the shop floor: A confirmatory model of management influence on workplace safety, Journal of Safety Research (1998)
 

Teams

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Addressing politics in matrix teams., Group and Organization Management (2001)
 

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Team-member exchange and commitment to a matrix team, Journal of Social Behavior and Personality (1999)