A Study of Relationship between Personality Traits and Job Engagement

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between personality traits and job engagement of the university personnel. A self-administered survey was applied to Kastamonu University academic and administrative personnel. A relevant data was collected from 118 personnel. The results of the study indicated that there were significant relationships between personality traits and job engagement. Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience were positively related but Neuroticism was negatively related to physical, emotional and cognitive engagement. Openness to Experience was the significant predictor of physical, emotional and cognitive engagement. Agreeableness was the predictor of emotional and cognitive engagement. As a higher order factor job engagement was related to big five factors. Openness to Experience and Agreeableness were the only significant predictors of job engagement. Results of this study suggest that the five factor model is useful for examining the dispositional source of job engagement