A Conceptual Exploration of the Use of Locus of Control for P ...

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Abstract

Recruiting and selecting the best employees (or not) has a dramatic impact on organizations. In order to select higher performing employees, organizations are increasingly turning to pre-employment testing. One area of testing having the potential to predict future employee performance is the measurement of potential employees’ locus of control. The relationship between locus of control and performance has generally been established that internal locus of control leads to better performance. However, it has also been shown that illusory control is prevalent in all of us except those identified as being depressed. A review of the literature revealed studies whereby illusory control was related to decreased performance, and that this was particularly so under conditions requiring analysis, strategy, judgment, or decision making. The authors then generated a set of integrated propositions regarding the relationships between internal locus of control, illusory control, and performance, integrating the separate streams of literature on locus of control and illusory control and generating new predictions of performance.