Relationship between Personality Traits and Counterproductive Work Behaviors

Abstract

Following the growing interest in identifying whether personality traits are associated with employee's inclination toward counterproductive work behavior (CWB), the objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits based on the five-factor model with CWB. Study participants were 381 workers from different socioeconomic and educational levels in public and private organizations, from two Brazilian regions. Agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism factors had statistically significant associations with three CWB dimensions. Linear regression analysis revealed all five personality traits contributed to prediction of CWB dimensions. These findings are discussed in light of international literature.

Personality Factors as Predictor of Workplace Deviant Behavior Among Civil Servants

“…The high conscientiousness is someone who has a responsibility, hardworking, well-organized, well behaved, moral and avoids engaging WDB. This study has also been supported by previous studies of Ferreira and Nascimento (2016). Nor do extraversion factors also have a negative relationship to WDB, this is because individuals with high extraversion in themselves will tend to be friendly, full of energy, and like to talk so that this situation makes them not to do the negative behavior in the workplace (Kozako, et al, 2013).…”

“…Economic and social planning is disturbed thus affecting organizational effectiveness (Indonesian Corruption Watch, 2017). Thus, many studies consider that person as individual factors are related to WDB (Abdullah andMarican, 2016 andFerreira andNascimento, 2016) …”

“…Research on the big five personality traits and WDB has been thoroughly studied but empirical research finds inconsistency (Bolton, et al, 2010, Ferreira and Nascimento, 2016, Nielsen, et al, 2017. Bolton, et al (2010), found that agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion were valid predictor deviant behavior in the workplace, in which agreeableness predicts workplace deviant interpersonal and conscientiousness as predictors of workplace deviant organizational.…”

Exploring the Relationship Between Personality Factors and Workplace Deviant Behavior Among Pekanbaru City Civil Servants

“…Economic and social planning is disturbed thus affecting organizational effectiveness (Indonesian Corruption Watch, 2017). Thus, many studies consider that personality as individual factors are related to WDB (Abdullah & Marican, 2016;Ferreira & Nascimento, 2016) …”

“…Research on the big five personality traits and WDB has been thoroughly studied but empirical research finds inconsistency (Bolton, Becker andBarber, 2010, Ferreira andNascimento, 2016;Nielsen, Glaso and Einarson, 2017). Bolton et al (2010) found that agreeableness, conscientiousness, and extraversion were valid predictors of deviant behavior in the workplace, in which agreeableness predicts workplace deviant interpersonal and conscientiousness as predictors of workplace deviant organizational.…”