Rob Christensen of BYU, Kuk-Kyoung Moon of Inha University, and I have a new paper forthcoming at IPMJ. The title is “Genetics and Sector of Employment”. Here’s the abstract:
In this twin study we show that the penchant for a particular sector of employment has a genetic element: monozygotic twins evidencing a greater similarity of sector choice than dizygotic twins. The findings provide interesting evidence of a genetic basis for the choice to track together into the same sector. The effect sizes, though relatively small, raise the practice-based possibilities that management- or nurture-based approaches might be complemented with nature-based applications of recruitment and selection. Thus, while the research on public employee attraction, selection and attrition focuses nearly exclusively on managerial and behavioral approaches, our findings invite researchers to explore genetic aspects of public service attraction as a complementary approach.
Please reach out to Rob or Kuk-Kyoung, email me at aw@uga.edu if you would like a preprint copy.
