The Influences of Transformational Leadership and Big Five Personality Traits Towards Individual's Job Performance

This research intends to study the influences of transformational leadership and personality traits towards the individual job performance. Data have been collected from 121 respondents of three diferent manufacturing companies in Penang. The respondents were taken from the group of middle level managers, supervisors and operators from each company. Primarily this study aims to test and measure whether the transformational leadership and big five personality traits could influence the individual's job performance in organization or not. The initial results of the study indicate that transformational leadership is positively related and have highly significant towards the individual job performance. The personality traits that consist of conscientiousness, is similarly show the positive relationship to the job performance but agreeableness is insignificantly performs