The relation between personality and contextual performance in "strong" versus "weak" situations

Both a laboratory and field study investigated the extent to which the stre ngth of behavioral cues in simulated and actual job performance situations moderate the relation between measures of broad personality dimensions and contextual performance behaviors. Extending Mischel's (1977) conceptualizat ion of strong and weak situations, it was hypothesized that personality and contextual performance behavior would be most strongly correlated when the re were only weak cues, and less correlated when there were strong cues. Re sults indicated that personality-contextual performance correlations varied across situations with different expectations for performance.