Eshet, YovavHarpaz, Itzhak2020-12-242020-12-242021-01-05978-0-9981331-4-0http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71229This paper analyzes the relationship among ‎outstanding employees’ personality traits, ‎innovation and performance. It stems from ‎Motowidlo, ‎Borman, & Schmit's theory ‎of ‎performance, which distinguishes between task and ‎‎contextual performance, leading ‎to personal job ‎success and creativity. The innovative paired ‎sample is composed of both, 189 ‎outstanding ‎employees and their ‎supervisors, and 182 common ‎employee control group. ‎Findings ‎show that ‎‎agreeableness and extraversion are significant ‎correlated to contextual behavior. The present ‎paper ‎contribution is that it enlightens for the first ‎time the relationship the above-mentioned ‎performance. This in turn can be employed ‎ as an ‎‎assessment tool which can assist ‎Human Resources ‎units in ‎obtaining strategic ‎knowledge of its ‎‎employees‎ ‎for proactive management of their ‎innovative knowledge assets, for better systematic ‎management of ‎organizational knowledge. ‎12 pagesEnglishAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalInnovation and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practiceinnovationknowledge managementoutstanding performancepersonality traits10.24251/HICSS.2021.611