Studying Impact of Personality Traits on Job Performance (The Case of University of Isfahan's Personnel)

ABSTRACT Studying impact of personality traits on job performance has much importance. Because based on this, human resources managers can appoint their personals to appropriate jobs. Therefore this article was aimed to studying impact of personality traits on job performance. In order to this, personality traitsbased on big five model including extraversion, consciousness, openness to experience, agreeableness, and emotional stability has been used. Also Job performance dimensions based on the ACHIEVE modelincluding ability, clarity, help, incentive, evaluation, validity, and environment has been used.Statistical population of this study was the personalsof university of Isfahan andthe sample including 160 personals of themwere selected based onconvenience sampling method. Data collecting method was thequestionnaireincluding 50 items to measuring variables. The regression analysis and Durbin-Watson analysis has been used to analyzing data and consulting results. The results indicated that personality traitsinfluencedthe personals' job performance. Also detailed results indicated thatconsciousness and openness influenced job ability. Consciousness and emotional stability influenced job recognition; also emotional stability influenced job helping.Consciousness, openness, and emotional stability influenced job motivation. Extraversion and openness influenced job evaluation, also consciousness influenced job validity. Also Results indicated that none dimensions of personality traitscouldn'tinfluence environmental adaption. Finally the results of Durbin-Watsontest indicated that there isn't any self-correlation among independent variables