Personality and counterproductive work behaviour at Aeon Tebrau Johor Bahru/ Mohamad Hafifi Baharun& Wan Nurul Aziera Ameera Wan Mohamad Tahir

Limited study regarding the factors contribute to counter productive work behaviour (CWB) has been directed in investigating whether the Big Five Personality are the predictors of counter productive work behaviour such as organizational constraints, co-worker performance failure and supervisor pressure. More specifically, the researcher examined whether there is relationship between Big Five Personality (i.e. conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to experience and extraversion) with CWBs. Other than that. Counterproductive work behaviour (CWB) usually consists of explicit acts such as aggression and theft, or conversely, of more subtle and passive actions, such as willingly failing to fulfil tasks, carelessly following instruction, or doing work incorrectly. Generally, these kinds of matter have negative impacts either individually or towards an organization itself because it can be as a limitation of organization to achieve goal oriented purpose. Regarding this issue, personality of an individual can be as elements in this problem. Thus, this research is conducted to uncover the association between personalities and counter productive work behaviour. Study participants were 110 workers from Aeon Tebrau Johor Bharu, Johor from different department are involved.