An empirical study : The relationship between personality traits and job performance / Muhammad Shahril Che Saad

This study consists of the personality traits and job performance at Faculty of
Social Science and Humanity (FSSK), UKM, Bangi. The human personality can
influence the way of their job performance in the organization. For this study, the
main purpose is to identify whether the relationship exist between job performance
and several personality traits. There are four personality traits that use to conduct
the study and it is Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, and Openness to
experience.
Random sampling method that used in collecting the respondents in the
Faculty of Social Science and Humanity (FSSK). UKM, Bangi. The questionnaire
was distributed to 30 people of the employees in the FSSK, UKM. An exploratory
factor analysis was undertaken and Cronbach Alpha coefficients calculated to assess
the reliability of the study. Other than that, the Pearson Correlation analysis was
used to identify the relationship with the independent variable which is the personality
traits and dependent variable, the job performance. The result of this finding shows
that the individual has a high personality trait in conscientiousness with job
performance to perform better in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanity (FSSK),
UKM, Bangi.