The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience
BackgroundCraftsmanship is associated with various positive outcomes at both individual and organizational level, and thus has attracted scholarly attention on examining its antecedents. While craftsmanship can be shaped by both contextual factors and personal traits, existing research has dominantl...
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| description | BackgroundCraftsmanship is associated with various positive outcomes at both individual and organizational level, and thus has attracted scholarly attention on examining its antecedents. While craftsmanship can be shaped by both contextual factors and personal traits, existing research has dominantly focused on the former, leaving the latter less examined. Such a lack of examination limits our understanding of craftsmanship in workplace.ObjectiveFollowing the view that individuals’ intrinsic desire to do the job as the core of craftsmanship, we define craftsmanship spirit (CS) as an individual’s psychological state of feeling competent, transcendent, and valuable during work, which evolves as an individual’s skills and knowledge expand. We then draw on the classic dispositional literature to explore how individuals’ personality traits (conscientiousness and openness to experience) shape the development of CS differently (i.e., the initial level and the developmental trajectory), and test our theory using a latent growth modeling (LGM) approach.MethodsWe conducted a four-round on-site questionnaire survey with participants who were employees at a large manufacturing company in China. The final sample consists of 746 matched respondents. Data analysis was performed in Mplus 8.3.ResultsEmpirical results confirm our hypotheses that both conscientiousness and openness to experience have a positive effect on the initial level of CS. Besides, conscientiousness has a negative effect on the subsequent growth of CS. However, the proposed negative effect of openness to experience on the subsequent growth of CS was not supported when the other four personality traits were considered simultaneously.ConclusionThis study reveals that conscientiousness and openness to experience have an important effect on CS. Specifically, both conscientiousness and openness to experience are associated with a high level of CS, and the former is associated with low growth of CS. This study not only broadened our understanding on the antecedents of CS, but also provided a dynamic perspective to understand CS in workplace. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3b59dc2ed41143a093d48cdf7b1be8ac2024-01-31T15:08:34ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782024-01-011510.3389/fpsyg.2024.13322571332257The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experienceZhi Li0Fangmei Lu1Gang He2Business School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaBusiness School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, ChinaGuanghua School of Management, Faculty of Economics and Management, Peking University, Beijing, ChinaBackgroundCraftsmanship is associated with various positive outcomes at both individual and organizational level, and thus has attracted scholarly attention on examining its antecedents. While craftsmanship can be shaped by both contextual factors and personal traits, existing research has dominantly focused on the former, leaving the latter less examined. Such a lack of examination limits our understanding of craftsmanship in workplace.ObjectiveFollowing the view that individuals’ intrinsic desire to do the job as the core of craftsmanship, we define craftsmanship spirit (CS) as an individual’s psychological state of feeling competent, transcendent, and valuable during work, which evolves as an individual’s skills and knowledge expand. We then draw on the classic dispositional literature to explore how individuals’ personality traits (conscientiousness and openness to experience) shape the development of CS differently (i.e., the initial level and the developmental trajectory), and test our theory using a latent growth modeling (LGM) approach.MethodsWe conducted a four-round on-site questionnaire survey with participants who were employees at a large manufacturing company in China. The final sample consists of 746 matched respondents. Data analysis was performed in Mplus 8.3.ResultsEmpirical results confirm our hypotheses that both conscientiousness and openness to experience have a positive effect on the initial level of CS. Besides, conscientiousness has a negative effect on the subsequent growth of CS. However, the proposed negative effect of openness to experience on the subsequent growth of CS was not supported when the other four personality traits were considered simultaneously.ConclusionThis study reveals that conscientiousness and openness to experience have an important effect on CS. Specifically, both conscientiousness and openness to experience are associated with a high level of CS, and the former is associated with low growth of CS. This study not only broadened our understanding on the antecedents of CS, but also provided a dynamic perspective to understand CS in workplace.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1332257/fullconscientiousnessopenness to experiencecraftsmanship spiritlatent growth modelingbig five personality |
| spellingShingle | Zhi Li Fangmei Lu Gang He The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience Frontiers in Psychology conscientiousness openness to experience craftsmanship spirit latent growth modeling big five personality |
| title | The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience |
| title_full | The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience |
| title_fullStr | The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience |
| title_short | The double-edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit: an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience |
| title_sort | double edged sword of personality in shaping craftsmanship spirit an investigation of conscientiousness and openness to experience |
| topic | conscientiousness openness to experience craftsmanship spirit latent growth modeling big five personality |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1332257/full |
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