Abstract
Articles on the genetics of complex human behaviors and psychological traits provided in past volumes of journals published by Annual Reviews tended to adopt a pathological perspective and focused heavily on the disorders of human affect and behaviors. In our review, we expand our focus to the more general, nonclinical population, and in particular on the advances in the understanding of the genetics of attitudes and behaviors in work settings. We review the recent and emerging literature using a behavioral genetics approach to examine the influence of genetics on a wide array of important constructs in organizational behavior (OB) research and provide unique theoretical insights offered by this approach. We discuss practical implications and future research directions from a broad person-environment interactionist perspective by taking a genetics approach.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 167-190 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 22 Feb 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We are grateful for the constructive comments provided by Fred Morgeson and Ben Schneider on an earlier version of this review. The preparation of this review was partially funded by Singapore Ministry of Education research grants (R-317-000-085-112 and R-317-000-95-112) and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant 71072024). However, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations in this review are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.
Keywords
- behavioral genetics
- work attitudes
- work behaviors
- person-environment interplay