Volume : IV, Issue : I, January - 2015

An Empirical Study of Job Involvement and Personality Traits

Ms Kriti Mahajan

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T The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation of five factor model of personality and job involvement among employees of IT sector in Chandigarh. A sample of 120 employees was drawn by using a simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were distributed to all the employees drawn. Among them, 90 were valid samples, a valid return rate of 75%. The questionnaire had two instruments which measured the participant’s job involvement and five personality dimensions. To measure job involvement Lodahl and Kejner (1965) scale was used. Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) was used to measure five dimensions of personality - Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The empirical results of the study showed that (i) the personality types of openness to experience, extraversion and conscientiousness had significant positive relationships with their job involvement (ii) neuroticism had significant negative association with job involvement (iii) insignificant relationship was reported between agreeableness and job involvement.

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Ms Kriti Mahajan An Empirical Study of Job Involvement and Personality Traits International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 1 January 2015

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