A study on the relationship between personality traits and innovative work behavior at Tabung Haji in Terengganu / Farah Waheeda Wahairi

This study was conducted at Tabung Haji Kerteh, Terengganu. The purpose
of this study is to investigate the relationship between big five personality traits and
innovative work behavior. The five personality traits are conscientiousness,
agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience and extraversion. Method that had
been used for this study was simple random sampling. The total population number
of employees are 60 people, while the sample is 59 workers that working at Tabung
Haji in Terengganu. Based on (Krecjie & Morgan, 1970), the sample size for 60
people are 52 people. To more detail about the finding of this study, please refer to
next page. According to the result presented for this study, all the personality traits
have their different effect towards employees within in the organization and each of
these personality traits has some kind of relationship with innovative work behavior
either positive or negative result. Based on the finding and discussion about this
study, the result shown that the strongest relationship among the big five personality
traits and innovative work behavior is Openness to experience with most of the
employee in Tabung Haji possessed openness personality traits which are they are
more likely to share their opinions and can accommodate with other people. For the
weakest relationship among the big five personality traits and innovative work
behavior are Conscientiousness. It can be described as the staffs in Tabung Haji are
not prefer toward innovative work behavior.