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Personality traits and its effect on job satisfaction
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Introduction
Research on the dispositional source of job satisfaction has had spotty history in job satisfaction research. Employee satisfaction has always been important issues for Human resource managers as satisfied employees tend to be more productive, creative and committed to their employers. It is an important indicator of how employees feel about their job and a predictor of work behavior such as organizational, citizenship, Absenteeism, Turnover.
Job satisfaction is very important for both workers and the organization: To the worker, job satisfaction brings a pleasurable emotional state that can often leads to a positive work attitude. A satisfied worker is more likely to be creative, flexible, innovative, and loyal. For the organization, job satisfaction of its workers means a work force that is motivated and committed to high quality performance. Increased productivity- the quantity and quality of output per hour worked- seems to be a byproduct of improved quality of working life. It is important to note that the literature on the relationship between job satisfaction and productivity is neither conclusive nor consistent.
Job satisfaction is a result of various personal and job related factors. Many vital factors like challenging work, reward system, working conditions, colleagues, learning and personality in organization goes hand in hand with job satisfaction.
Literature review
A number of recent studies have looked at personality trait correlates of job satisfaction (e.g. Connolly & Viswesvaran, 2000; Hart, 1999; Judge, Higgins, Thoresen, & Barrick, 1999). Because earlier research demonstrated the dispositional nature of job satisfaction (Arvey, Bouchard,Segal, & Abraham, 1989; Bouchard, Arvey, Keller, & Segal, 1992; Keller, Bouchard, Arvey, Segal, & Dawis, 1992), researchers (e.g. Brief, 1998) have called for an examination of the psychological processes underlying this trait.
Dormann and Zaph (2001) conducted a metaanalysis showing that job satisfaction was far more stable over time, when people remained on the same job than when they changed jobs, thus, although personality may have contributed to satisfaction, job conditions were also important. Staw et al (1986), studied people’s job satisfaction over a span of decades and found that personality assessed in adolescents predicted job satisfaction up to 50 years later.
Extraversion
Whereas Neuroticism is related to the experience of negative life events, extraverts are predisposed to experience positive emotions(Costa & McCrae, 1992), and positive emotionality likely generalizes to job satisfaction, as demonstrated by Connolly and Viswesvaran’s (2000) Evidence also indicates that extraverts have more friends and spend more time in social situations than do introverts and, because of their social facility, are likely to find interpersonal interactions (such as those that occur at work) more rewarding (D.Watson & Clark, 1997).
Openness to Experience
Openness to Experience is related to scientific and artistic creativity (Feist, 1998), divergent thinking, low religiosity, and political liberalist. None of these psychological states seem to be closely related to job satisfaction. Furthermore, DeNeve and Cooper (1998) noted that “Openness to Experience is a ‘double-edged sword’ that predisposes individuals to feel both the good and the bad more deeply” rendering its directional influence on affective reactions like subjective well-being or job satisfaction unclear.
Conclusion
Personality has an extremely important effect on perception and evaluation of the work and
environment of the individual, because behaviors of the individual are formed as a consequence of the continuous interaction between the environment s/he lives in and other individuals in the environment.So the findings of the research says that personality traits has a positive impact on job satisfaction as job satisfaction play an important role in enhancing productivity of the employees, as the more the employee will be productive the more he will be committed towards the organization hence employee job satisfaction assumes great important in this regards.