A Study of the Relationship between the Big Five Personality Dimensions and Job Involvement in a Foreign Based Financial Institution in Penang

Abstract

The relationship between the Big Five Personality Dimensions and job involvement was examined with a sample of one hundred and five (105) sales/customer service staff of a foreign based banking/financial institution in the Northern Region of Malaysia. Hypotheses were tested by means of regression analysis. Results indicate that extroversion and agreeableness are positively related to job involvement. Emotional stability/neuroticism, conscientiousness and openness to experience did not show any significant relationship with job involvement. Overall, the findings established the existing of a relationship between the Big Five Personality Dimensions and job involvement, although they are not very strong or extensive.

The Determinant of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Examining the Mediating Roles of Job Involvement: Survey on lecturers of higher education of the ministry of industry in Indonesia

“…Some empirical findings from previous research has found a link between Job Involvement on OCB [18][19][20][21]. On the other hand, Job Involvement is also associated with Talent Management [22], Personality [23,24] and Grit [25]. This paper contributes in the analysis of the determinant of OCB, by placing Job Involvement as a mediating variable.…”

“…Placing Job Involvement as a mediator in the relationship of Talent Management, Personality and Grit to OCB, aims to provide a more realistic relationship and strengthen the influence of antecedent to OCB. There was a causal relationship between Job Involvement and OCB [19,20], Talent Management and Job Involvement [22], Personality and Job Involvement [23,24], Grit and Job Involvement [25]. Although it does not directly quantify the relationship between Grit and Job Involvement, Rimfeld et al concluded that Grit is very similar to Personality and influences academic achievement [36].…”

Investigating the Extent to Which Personality Traits and Demographics Affect Job Satisfaction

“…In the opinion of Eswaran et al (2011), openness to experience has a positive relationship with job satisfaction and job performance. They further assert that openness to experience is a valid predictor of the training proficiency criterion across occupations as the individuals with openness trait are more insightful, caring, and innovative.…”

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The annotation

“…Personalization attracted increased attention in many areas. So the need to predict personality traits increase over time mainly when several research has shown the link between personality traits and success in human relationship and practices [3] [6]. As an instance an introverted person is not interested naturally to make so much relation with others while an extrovert person do.…”