Investigation of Interactive Effects of Personality Traits on Job Performance with Special Reference to Insurance Companies in Badulla District
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2011
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Uva Wellassa University of Srilanka
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Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustment to his environment (Judge, 2009).
Performance is the degree of accomplishment of the tasks that frames an employee's job. It reflects how well the employees fulfill their job requirements. Job performance is the net effect of the employee's effort. Performance implied the interrelationship among effort, abilities, role perception and results produced by the particular employee.
In order to have a higher performance and productivity, there should be a proper match between personality of a person and the job that he/she is performing. When the personality and the job being performed are not matched with each other, those employees may be seen as people who are very uncomfortable at work and in turn will hinder the productivity.
As far as personality traits are concerned, an individual would not have merely one type of personality trait but a combination of many personality traits. Accordingly, the personality is not a mere reflection of one type of a personality trait but there might be a dominant personality trait which is also shaped by the existence of minor levels of other personality traits. However, these different combinations of personality traits would have different impacts on the performance level of the employee. Personality is generally accepted as an applicable forecaster of job performance in several recent Meta analyses for example (Barrick and Mount, 1991 and Algodo, 1997).
In the light of the prior research studies, what makes clear is that even though the studies have been conducted on personality.traits, the interactive effects of personality have limitedly been examined and it is hard to find out research on this area in the Sri Lankan context. Moreover, the available literature is also contributing to generate contradictory ideas on the same issue.
Thus, this research study was conducted with the objective of investigating the impact of interactive effects of personality traits on job performance with reference to the insurance Companies in Badulla District.
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Financial Management, Management, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management