A Structural Equation Model on Relationship Between Workers' Performance and Their Five Factor Personality in The Case of Downward Social Comparison

Abstract

There is a wide variety of assembly tasks in manufacturing industries, the performance of workers depends largely on their aptitude. In order to improve workers' performance, some factories have applied social comparison theory to prompt workers to compete against each other so as to raise workers' motivation towards assembly tasks. As there is a lack of researches on the effect of social comparison on workers' performance for assembly tasks, this study intends to fill this gap in the literature through clarifying the psychological mechanism of how workers' personality and social comparison orientation affect their performance in the case of downward social comparison. We design and conduct an experiment of assembly operation, build a structural equation model.