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The HEXACO model presents a conceptualization of personality that includes the trait honesty-humility (HH) in addition to 5 other personality traits (ie, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotionality, extraversion, openness) that closely approximate the ubiquitous five-factor model (FFM) of personality. A substantial literature has accumulated supporting the structure of the HEXACO model and the construct validity of the HH trait in particular. A newer development is the appearance of HH in the applied psychology literature. This begs the question of whether HH exhibits significant criterion-related validity with respect to job performance and whether HH accounts for incremental validity over other established individual differences predictors of job performance. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to conduct a meta-analysis of the relationship between HH and 3 major dimensions of job performance …