INTEGRATING THE TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS AS AN ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE TO THETRIANGLE OF PERSONALITY, JOB SATISFACTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

A successful job environment is believed to be created when individual interestsare put aside forthe sake of obtaining mutual benefits. At this point, providing jobsatisfaction and organizational commitment is essential. The present research isconducted through thehypothesis that personality predicts these two factors andthen seeks to reveal this effect.Big Five Personality Model and TransactionalAnalysis are used for evaluatingthe personality factor.The analysis is conducted across the data collected from 304 employees. Theresultssuggest that there is a link between some dimensions of ego involvementand the dimensions of organizational commitment and that some dimensions arenegatively associated. It is argued that some ego involvement dimensions and jobsatisfaction dimensions are negatively related while someother hasa favorablerelationship. Likewise some job satisfaction dimensions have prediction effectover organizational commitment dimensions. When the moderation is tested,respecting the interaction between variables, itis concluded that job satisfactionhas a mediation effect over the relation between personality and organizationalcommitment