The relationship between personality traits and job performance of support staff of Industrial Training Institute of Kota Samarahan/ Marliyani Mokhtar

Job performance refers to the work-related activities expected of an employee and how well those activities are executed. According to Campell (1990) job performances refers to scalable actions, behavior and outcomes that employee engages in or bring about that are linked with and contribute to organizational goals. The Mccrae and Coasta,1997) which were comprised of five dimensions, but only three dimensions that were used to examine the relationship the personality traits and employee job performance which are agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between personality traits and job performance of employee in Industrial Training Institute Kota Samarahan. Subsequent to this, the relationship between agreeableness and job performance was investigated. This was accomplished through the quantitative method of data collection namely questionnaire. It is recommended for future researchers that an alternative method of data collection be employed so as to obtain in-depth information on how personality traits can affect employee’ job performance.