The relationship between the personality traits and job satisfaction among employees at Kuching Port Authority/ Mohamad Azaim Faiq Mohamed Azham

In a recent years, personality related theories and models have expanded their popularities among the individual as well as the organization. Besides, personality associated with an individual’s attitudes, talents, interests, physical appearance and interaction with the environment. Thus, the five factors in Big Five Personality Traits are used as a significant dimensions which possibly provide empirical evidence in relation to the job satisfaction. Those dimensions or traits are namely as openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. McCrae and Costa (2010) clarified that factor analysis results also confirm five factor personality model. This model is expected to be an important element as it enables individuals to understand each other by using the five basic personality traits. The main objectives of this research were to investigate the relationship between the personality traits and job satisfaction. Thus, convenience sampling technique is utilized and the sampling frame used in this research study is the employee at Human Resource and Development and Human Resource Management at Kuching Port Authority. Moreover, the researcher examined the findings of study by distributing the questionnaires to the selected respondents which varies from different age, gender, marital status, educational background and working experience. Hence, 120 respondents were selected as a sample size to answer the questionnaire provided by the researcher. This research report also discusses the data as well as the results obtained from the findings. The researcher interpreted the data received from the respondents and proposes appropriate recommendations for the future researcher and the organization as well. Subsequently, the findings revealed that the components of the big-five personality traits which is conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience and extraversion significantly affected job satisfaction.