Personality, Organizational Climate and Job Involvement: An Empirical Study

Elankumaran, S.

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“…There was a research work to classify the personality, namely, Sattvic, Rajasic, and Tamasic based on Indian Psychophilosophy and compared with Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction (Anbalagan & Dhanalakshmi, 2011;Elankumaran, 1994).…”

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An Intelligent System for Analysing Manas Prakrti in Human Resource Management

2015

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Human resource management is said to be the importance of spiritual, ethical, and human values that condition human behaviour. The immediate problem that it poses for a full understanding of human functioning is that the inner subjective experiences of consciousness based on human resource management. Ayurveda occupies the heights of human psychological accomplishment and could usefully call upon the insights of any of these sources to aid in addressing the problematic nature of modern-day businesses and have significant bearing on human behaviour. Manas prakrti in Ayuverda contributes to the study of personality. Tamas-Rajas-Sattva temperamental groups give rise to the framework of Space-Time-Causation when evolution starts in association with Consciousness Principle in manas prakrti. In this paper I present a methodology to analyze Temperamental groups that are found in manas prakrti by using an intelligent system. This will guide understand, instrumental values, operating values, and weak values of employees in human resource management.

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An Intelligent System for Analysing Manas Prakrti in Human Resource Management

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“…Such people rarely think about quitting their job, and they are expected to work for their organization for many years (2). Job involvement is an important variable which helps to increase the effectiveness of organization, so that the higher the level of employees' job involvement in an organization, the more effective this organization would be (3). Litinger (1982) has linked job involvement to the achievement motivation.…”

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“…To increase the employees' job involvement, a comprehensive and realistic approach should be taken with respect to its predictors. The most realistic perspective on job involvement among various ones is that it is a function of personality and organizational climate (3).…”

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Nurses' Job Involvement and Their Personality Traits in Teaching Hospitals Affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 2013

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Background: Job involvement is a work-related attitude which helps to increase the effectiveness of the organization. On the other hand, individuals corresponding to a specific personality type behave in a certain way and have certain expectations, objectives and needs. Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the level of nurses' job involvement and its association with their personality traits in teaching hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2013. Materials and Methods:This was an applied, cross-sectional and analytical-descriptive study. A sample of 110 nurses was determined using a multi-stage sampling method including cluster sampling, stratified sampling proportional to size, and simple random sampling methods. The required data were collected using two questionnaires that measured nurses' job involvement and their personality traits. Collected data were analyzed using the SPSS16.0 software on the basis of statistical tests including Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS), ANOVA, independent-samples t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression (Stepwise method). A P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results:The results showed that the studied nurses' personality traits and job involvement were moderate. Moreover, the results of the multiple linear regression indicated that the studied nurses' job involvement had significant and positive associations only with achievement orientation (P < 0.001) and being formal and official nurses (P = 0.034). Conclusions: According to the results of the present study and to increase employees' job involvement, hospital administrators should establish an equitable employee performance system and provide appropriate rewards and incentives, adequate career advancement and job promotion opportunities, opportunities for making mistakes and learning from those mistakes for employees and providing a greater job security for contract employees.Keywords: Employee Performance Appraisal; Personality; Nurses; Hospitals, Teaching Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Nurses' job involvement had significant associations with some personality traits and employment status. This finding could prove useful in selecting the right personal for a specific medical or surgical department and also for the employers to elaborate an equitable employee performance system and provide appropriate rewards and incentives, and also adequate career advancement opportunities.

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“…It can foster the emergence of socially desirable behaviors in employees. When it is combined with Karma-Yoga (working without expecting fruits), it might enhance these desirable behaviors further leading to better 'job involvement' [4]. Karma yoga is positively correlated to transformational leadership, effectiveness, extra effort, and satisfaction [5].…”

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