Abstract: The article summarizes the new researches on relations between personality and job performance, and relations between ability and job performance, and the model for predicting job performance are discussed. Such individuals’ individualities as ability and personality have influences on their job performance, and appropriate personality and ability tests can help predict their job performance. The present paper suggests it is important to study the structure, predicting model and cross-cultural research of job performance

Key words: job performance, task performance, contextual performance, cross-cultural research