Meta-analysis shows a modest link between self-monitoring and job performance, highlighting bias in ratings.
Key Points
This meta-analysis aims to clarify the relationship between self-monitoring and job performance, exploring whether it reflects substantive performance or biased perceptions.
Conducted a meta-analysis involving 35 samples to evaluate correlations between self-monitoring and job performance.
Examined ratings from supervisors and outcome-based assessments to identify discrepancies in performance evaluations.
Performed moderator analyses to assess the influence of self-monitoring on supervisors' performance ratings.
Overall correlation between self-monitoring and job performance was modest (r = .12).
Significant correlation found only in supervisor ratings, no correlation in outcome measures.
Relationship noted in contextual performance ratings, but not in task performance evaluations.