A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF PERSONALITY TRAIT ON JOB INVOLVEMENT OF GOVERNMENT BANKERS OF RATNAPURA MUNICIPLE COUNCILE AREA

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.