Abstract:
Job Involvement has become a popular topic in the modern business context since organizations are
operating in a very competitive environment. Therefore job involvement has become a sustainable
competitive advantage for the ultimate purpose of achieving its goals and objectives. Researcher
conducted a preliminary survey to measure the level of job involvement of private and government
bankers in Ratnapura municipal council area and found that there is low level of job involvement
among the government bankers in the mentioned research context. After reviewing the literature the
researcher found that big five personality traits (experience, conscientiousness, extraversion,
agreeableness, neuroticism) are the mostly influencing factors on job involvement. Therefore the
present study aimed to identify the positive impact of experience, conscientiousness, extraversion and
negative impact of neuroticism on job involvement of government bankers in Ratnapura municipal
council area. This study was conducted based on positivistic research paradigm and quantitative
research methodology. Census strategy was applied to collect data since there are only 119 bankers at
government commercial banks in Ratnapura municipal council area. Data were gathered through self
administered questionnaire. Data was analysed using multiple regression. Findings of the study
reviled that conscientiousness was not impacted on job involvement of government bankers in
Ratnapura municipal council area. Nevertheless it was found a positive impact of three personality
traits namely openness to experience, extraversion and agreeableness on job involvement and
negative impact of neuroticism on job involvement of government bankers in Ratnapura municipal
council area. Bankers who possess openness to experience traits shows the highest impact on job
involvement among other dimensions. Therefore the management of the government banks in this
research context can organize workshops in order to improve the bankers personality. Since
conscientiousness personality trait got insignificant in present research study, future researchers can
determine the reasons for such insignificancy.
