The relationship between the big five personality traits and job performance among employees at Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Machang / Nurul Liana Makhtar

The objective for this study was to determine the relationship between Big Five Personality traits and the job performance among employees at Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Machang. The quantitative method was used and the questionnaire was the instrument to collect the data from the respondents. There were 107 respondents for this study and correlation analysis were conducted to determine the association between five independent variables in personality traits and Job Performance. The five independent variables included were Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness to Experiences and Extraversion. Based on this study findings, the results shows that all the five independent variables in personality traits in this study affect Job Performance. The result of this study also shows that Conscientiousness has the highest value of correlations towards Job Performance compared to other four independent variables. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher has achieved and fulfilled the research objectives and the research questions. This study can be beneficial especially for the organization because they can improve their personality traits so that they can maintain their employee’s level of Job Performance.