Personality Traits and Employee Work Attitude

Abstract

The essence of this study is to investigate personality traits and employee work-related attitude. The sample size comprised of 202 respondents selected from different organizations both private and public. The collected data were analyzed and presented using tables and simple percentages. Also, four hypotheses were tested using Spare man rank correlation. The study revealed among others, that there is significant positive relationship between personality traits and employee work related attitudes. Specifically, the study found significant positive relationship between: extroversion and organizational citizenship, agreeableness and organizational commitment, conscientiousness and job involvement, as well as innovativeness and openness to experience, respectively. Thus, extroverts are likely to become organization citizens; while agreeable ones are more likely to be committed to their work and the organization. Also, employees who are open to experience are more innovative in the workplace. On the other hand, workers who are dutiful, organized, punctual, predictable and systematic are more likely to be involved in the organizational processes. Moreover, employees are advised to have self awareness of their personality characteristics as this is necessary to facilitate proper adjustment to the work environment. We equally suggest that more care should be employed towards improving the skills and abilities of employees through training and development to improve their level of satisfaction and involvement in their work.