Relationship between big five personality and organizational commitment: a study among executives in a public sector organization
International Journal of Development Research
Relationship between big five personality and organizational commitment: a study among executives in a public sector organization
Received 20th September, 2017; Received in revised form 11th October, 2017; Accepted 03rd November, 2017; Published online 29th December, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Thiruvarasi and Kamaraj. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The main purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between the big five personality traits namely, Neuroticism, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Openness and Organizational Commitment. For this purpose a sample size of 536 Executives who are working at a public sector power generating organization functioning in Tamil Nadu state is selected. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the samples. Big Five Personality inventory developed by John and Srivastava (1999); and Organizational Commitment developed by Meyer et al. (1993) were used for data collection. The study has found that there are significant relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits and form of Organizational Commitment. Suitable managerial implications are given in this study.
