Letter

Neurotic Individuals are not Creative Thinkers

The ongoing environmental deterioration challenges present and forthcoming generations to adopt more suitable behaviours to avoid catastrophic consequences for Earth's ecosystem. This demanding scenario has raised several questions about human activities, leading to exploring the intrapersonal factors involved in pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs). In a sample of 146 late adolescents (M_age = 19.91 years, SD_age = 1.31 years, 68.5% females), the current research addressed the extent to which the Big Five personality traits predict PEBs through the effect of fluency and creativity of divergent thinking (DT). Results revealed that not only openness but also extraversion and agreeableness were indirectly associated with PEBs through the mediation of DT creativity. This study extended previous knowledge about the impact of personality on green behaviours, suggesting that adolescents must invest in and increase their DT competencies to enhance their own disposition toward pro-environmental practices. Implications, limitations, and future research directions were discussed.

Today's rapidly changing and volatile markets demand a novel set of skills from organizations and employees that allows them to agilely adapt to and surmount the ever-evolving challenges posed by the ongoing development of digital technologies and changes in market conditions. Previous research conducted on structured workplaces using traditional industrialist paradigms had established an ideal composition of employee traits. However, today's contrasting fast-paced environments may have made those profiles obsolete, prompting the need to identify a profile of personalities and interests that enables organizations to assemble a workforce high in digital self-efficacy, which fundamentally drives organizations’ agility. We proposed and evaluated such a model by conducting two studies at international (Study 1, N = 309) and French (Study 2, N = 1,025) publicly traded organizations. The results indicate the personality dimensions openness to experience and emotional stability and investigative and realistic vocational interests are predispositions for the development of digital self-efficacy. Furthermore, we found corroborative evidence for digital self-efficacy to facilitate workforce agility. These findings offer novel insights into those individual psychological traits that foster an agile workforce and make it well-equipped to face the challenges of rapidly changing digital business environments today and in the future.