Adapting to Succeed: The Predictive Power of Self-Monitoring on Job Performance

Abstract

Self-monitoring has been treated both as a forecaster of specific employee behaviors, and as a moderator of the effects of other traits, contributing to a greater understanding of individual behaviors we have, in this research attempted to investigate a dimension of behavior called the self-monitoring; its impact on Job Performance. For clarity of results Job performance was classified as Task Performance and Contextual performance. Standard scales of Self-Monitoring and job performance were used to collect responses. The data was analyzed using correlation and ANOVA. The study discovered that there are more than forty percent employees who agree that they monitor their behavior according to people and situations. It was also found that while the contextual performance had an Impact of Self-monitoring, the task performance was not affected by Self-Monitoring behaviors, which means that changing or molding behavior according to situation might improve relationship with collogues and superiors, but it cannot improve the task performance of an employee. Therefore the skill required to work in organizations still has maximum influence.